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External Git Repositories
It is sometimes useful to have git tracking files stored in a different location from your working directory, for instance if you would …
Nov 8, 2012
Commandline Java applications from symlinks
I dislike java commandline tools for a number of reasons, including their typical extreme verbosity in arguments and lack of one letter …
Nov 5, 2012
Rstudio server through SSH tunnel
Our Rstudio server instance runs on a server which is not directly connected to the internet at large. We can connect to it through a …
Oct 30, 2012
Per Directory, Cross Server History in ZSH
I do most of my work sshing into linux boxes on the command line. In this environment having a nice history of previous commands is of …
Sep 26, 2012
Perl vs Python vs Ruby: Restriction enzyme regular expression performance
As a continuation of my previous posts comparing the three major scripting languages used in bioinformatics I wanted to take a look at …
Jul 31, 2012
Perl vs Python vs Ruby: Fasta reading using Bio packages
Since all the languages I mentioned in my previous post have Bio packages which can parse fasta files, I did a quick comparison of the …
Jul 24, 2012
Perl vs Python vs Ruby: Parsing Fasta Files
Parsing fasta files is the single most common thing one does when working with sequencing data, so any programming language used should …
Jul 19, 2012
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