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Quote: "While dealing with big genetic data sets ..." What a great start. Unless he's a biologist, the author means generic, not genetic. The author goes on t
by lutusp 12y ago
Quote: "While dealing with big genetic data sets ..."
What a great start. Unless he's a biologist, the author means generic, not genetic.
The author goes on to show that he can use command-line utilities to accomplish what database clients do much more easily.
- mbreese 12y agoI think that he actually is a biologist. He refers to movies as a parallel universe. In which case, these tools are probably not all that helpful. Biological data is usually in the scale of either "Excel can handle it" (shudder) or "ginormous". In the later case, none of these would be all that useful, and CSV is not the standard format for most of the biological data that I see. Databases are less helpful than you'd imagine for this type of data as the schemas are not well defined. I am curious to know how JSON records would work for these data, because I could see something like that working for processing biological data files.
- kafkaesk 12y agoA few blog posts earlier, the author writes about "Network Analysis application in Genetic Studies ", so I am confident to say this isn't a typo. And for a quick-and-dirty custom analysis of big data sets, the unix tools might be a lot more convenient than databases.
- snowwrestler 12y agoHe is a biologist.