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I'm a computational biologist. I often need to know exactly how some piece of analysis was done months or years ago. In an ideal world all the details would be
by michaelhoffman 11y ago
I'm a computational biologist. I often need to know exactly how some piece of analysis was done months or years ago. In an ideal world all the details would be in scripts with carefully written READMEs cross-linked from my lab notebook, but it's not an ideal world and sometimes we're in a hurry. In those cases the history saves my bacon.
- uxcn 11y agoI'm not a computational biologist, but I've run into this once or twice. I only use the shell for quick summary statistics now though. I started doing most of my analysis in R, which made life easier on a lot of different levels.