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  2. Year: 2022
  3. Month: December

Month: December 2022

Learn Markdown – Episode 6. Convert Word to Markdown with pandoc

Posted on December 30, 2022

Summary Pandoc is a document converter for multiple type of files. Converting example Format conversion is a chore that often takes a lot of time. I recently wanted to convert a long MSWord document into …

Posted in Computing, Docker, Markdown, RStudio, Scientific CommunicationTagged Docker, markdow, pandoc, reproducible research, RStudio, scientific communication

Magic-BLAST analysis of NextGen Reads

Posted on December 15, 2022

NCBI Magic-BLAST Workshop The intermediate level workshop Analyzing & Visualizing NextGen Reads with Magic-BLAST – [Archived] is designed for biologists who are comfortable working with the command-line (bash) and who are interested in performing some early …

Posted in bash, bioinformatics, cloud computing, sequence analysisTagged BLAST, DNAseq, Magic-BLAST, NCBI, NextGen, RNAseq

Python and Object Programming AhAh moment

Posted on December 2, 2022

Summary Clarifying Python code containing the mysterious “dot notation” of object-oriented languages.  An object is a combination of data stored within a specific class. A class is a blue-print (or framework) that defines attributes (containing …

Posted in Computing, Programming, PythonTagged dot notation, Object Oriented, Object Oriented Programming, python

Using Python within RStudio

Posted on December 1, 2022

Summary Finding and implementing settings in RStudio to use Pyhon. RStudio and Python RStudio can handle a large number of languages (> 50) in addition to its basic support of R. (This month the RStudio …

Posted in bioinformatics, Computing, Programming, Python, RStudio

Python wins popularity of programming languages

Posted on December 1, 2022

Summary Python ranks #1 in popularity of programming languages on the TIOBE Index TIOBE Index The popularity of programming languages is reflected in the TIOBE Programming Community index which is updated once a month. The …

Posted in Computing, Programming, PythonTagged index, language, popuylarity, programming, python, TIOBE index

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