How do I become a bioinformatician?
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? What programming languages should I ...
Matt Ralston | Bio+coding
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Sorting Out Modules in Python
Modules and importing for beginners
Benchmarking Python CLIs
Measuring CPU/memory performance during refactors
Magika - A Sword Art Online fanfiction
Officially, magic was a forbidden component of Sword Art. Magical skills, item stats, criticals, and ability leveling may have elements beyond the typical diagnostic expertise of the players. Yet, ...
How to build a scientific calculator in Python - Part 1.
Old post, very dated... writing a command-line tool
How to build a scientific calculator in Python - Part 1.
Old post, very dated... writing a command-line tool
Top 10 - Productivity Tricks I Learned From Grad School
Things that made me faster in grad school 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...
First time with Common Workflow Language (CWL)
If Perl is Glorified Shell, Shell Scripts Are Dead. Long Live Shell Scripts For those of you who don't know me, I'm your typical beginner bioinformatician. I can script with a few languages but st...
AWS S3 System Backup Tutorial
This article is geared for novice to intermediate users of OSX and Linux, perhaps a 20min read. Motivation At this point in your career, you may have your own hardware systems that you customize,...
Kmer Database Format (Part 1.)
Review of K-mers and Motivation for .kdb