About a 25 minute read Big data is a meme, but different flavors of bioinformaticians can be referred to as analysts, data scientists, and data engineers. This article just brushes the surface of the differences and focuses the conversation on the reliance of individual team members on each other for...
About a 45 min read. Introduction Bioinformatics research in 2019 relies on high-performance, compiled C, C++, or Java programs to solve alignment and assembly problems efficiently. However, interpreted scripting languages, such as Python, Perl, and shell languages (bash, csh, zsh, fish), are needed afterwards for further calculation, quality control, visualization,...
Things that made me faster in grad schoolv Now that I'm out in the real world and out of the scholastic bubble, the world seems very obsessed with productivity. It seemed that way before I left the bubble but that's irrelevant. Every student needs to hear one bitter truth about...
The goal of this blog post is to introduce the concepts of k-mer subsequences and blocked GNU-zip file (.bgzf) and suggest that they be used together to form a new file specification for younger bioinformaticians. If I'm successful, the reader should have a basic understanding of common k-mer packages, my...
In this blog post we’ll be reviewing the essentials of a mature workstation build, in this case, for graduate school. We begin with a look...
I see plenty of posts on /r/bioinformatics of students or mid-career professionals asking what it takes to become a bioinformatician. What skills should I have?...
Oh yeah, it’s all coming together If you’re comfortable with the differences between dictionaries and modules, skip ahead to the section about modules where I...
Introduction Big data is a meme, but there is a dichotomy worth discussing in the emerging interdisciplinary fields involving computer science. There is a choice...