Tag Archives: Text

1985 computing in action

This YouTube video from the BBC Archive channel gives a glimpse of computing in 1995 when the DIGITAL VT100 terminal was king! Description based on info on YouTube: At the Boston software company Infocom, Fred Harris gets behind the scenes. The developer has had considerable success with its series of text-based adventure games, including The… Read More »

TableConvert.com – free tabular data formats converter

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 »

Bioawk for handling bioinformatics formats

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 »