Matt Ralston
26 Feb 2020Oh 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 explain directory layout and importing...
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26 Aug 2019The 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...
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15 May 2019About 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,...
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14 Apr 2018Hello everyone! Today we'll be talking about essential array/list methods in different languages, reminding our readers of differences across languages. As beginner programmers, many of us are not aware of...
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20 Mar 2018I’ve been exploring the Python documentation system for ReadTheDocs with Sphinx. It could be that I’m dense, but the sphinx-quickstart command seems horribly divorced from most of the automagic documentation...
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