I’ve been asked several times about which computer skills are critical for bioinformatics. Important – note that I am just addressing the “computer skills” side of things here. This is my list for being a functional, comfortable bioinformatician.
SQL and knowledge of databases. I always recommend that people start with MySQL, because it is crossplatform, very [...]
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Update: As many readers have commented, I have just missed the obvious – there are functions in python to do this. See comments section for details.
So I do a lot of file processing in my bioinformatics work and I’ve always really liked the perl function chomp.
I wanted to implement something in python to do this [...]
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Mark Bieda python getting started quick tips hints tutorial
I wanted to write a short post about getting started in python.
What you will like about Python as a perl person:
(1) A great thing is the interpreter. This will allow really rapid learning of python. For a perl person, python should come really fast. I was very, [...]
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