I wrote a series on my Biochem Blog with this title: “Do yourself a favor: learn Markdown” At the moment there are 4 episodes, but more might be coming. Rather than retype things here I’ll just post the links: Summary list Do yourself a favor: learn Markdown – Episode 4. Reproducible reports Do yourself a… Read More »
Cross-posting from post: Download Google Drive Files using wget The problem: transfer file between clouds Files on Google drive can be shared between users, but the default access to the file is via we web browser graphical interface. However, sometimes it may be useful, or even necessary, to access and download a file from a command line,… Read More »
The saying goes “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it!” – Oh Yeah. But sometimes it is inevitable… Problem Last month, under macOS Mojave (10.14) suddenly VMWare did not want to start, because of a security issue internal to macOS. In the end it was decided to upgrade to 10.15 macOS Catalina (even though macOS… Read More »
I just wrote an entry on my Biochem blog which I think would fit on this site: Default preferences I enjoy using R and RStudio, but I am always weary of upgrading R because that usually leads to some issue(s). The most recent was a bit long for me to diagnose, even though in retrospect… Read More »
Even though PowerShell has been around for apparently a long time (cerca 2002) it only came onto my “radar” recently as the “app” that can be used as a Text-Terminal to ssh somewhere. But I was then surprised to discover that in fact PowerShell also exists for MacOS as well as Linux! So I looked a… Read More »
Summary csvkit is a suite of command-line tools for converting to and working with CSV, the king of tabular file formats. (csvkit can convert XLSX files to CSV.) A good docker container for csvkit: thomasleplus/csv Inspiration: stack overflow article: convert-xlsx-file-to-csv-using-batch Note: I wrote a different version of this on this post elsewhere: csvkit command-line spreadsheet can convert and… Read More »
More than once I have written my own tutorials for learning how to use the command line within the bash shell in the context of a Unix or Unix-like computer. Recently I found a very well done tutorial that, while titled “Unix for Neuroimagers” provides a wonderfully well done, easy to understand set of small… Read More »
The iris dataset is perhaps one of the most famous datasets used to learn and teach statistics and now machine learning. Being curious about this dataset lead me last time to the TableConvert.com web site that I discussed in my previous post here (and there.) “Metro Maps” Today while revisiting the Wikipedia link for this dataset (Iris_flower_data_set) my… Read More »
This is a repost of my post on the Biochemistry department: tableconvert-com-free-tabular-data-formats-converter Tabular formats When I first came to Madison in 1986 as a postdoc with Biochemistry professor Paul Kaesberg to learn cloning and sequencing, I was surprised when he said that the most important program to work with sequences was the (now defunct GCG) program… Read More »
Today I found a new tool: bioawk that was written by Heng Li who also wrote samtools and bwa. I first discovered it ont this blog: bioawk-basics (Bioinformatics Workbooks) There is also a short tutorial on GitHub: github.com/vsbuffalo/bioawk-tutorial I also found a recent docker image, and in fact there are only 2 images on docker hub: lbmc/bioawk updated 2 months ago,… Read More »