njbooher

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by njbooher 13y ago
The Mac client crashes a lot with ~10 shared folders checked out in my experience.
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by njbooher 13y ago
It's unfortunate that biological statisticians have hijacked the term 'computational biology'. There's still a lot of computer science to be done in the area, particularly in genome assembly what with new sequencing tech
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by njbooher 13y ago
#import <stdio.h> -> #include <stdio.h>
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by njbooher 13y ago
It's also not too hard to DIY: http://www.dr-josiah.com/2012/01/creating-lock-with-redis.ht... https://github.com/njbooher/boglab_tools/blob/dece35f13a8fcb... When multiple pro
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by njbooher 13y ago
> The court may plot and scheme, but the king is still their king. Try watching some Game of Thrones.
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by njbooher 13y ago
You're not.
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by njbooher 13y ago
BioPython - http://biopython.org/
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by njbooher 13y ago
The undergrad class was back in 2011 and just went through the basics using Learning Perl, 5th Edition. I haven't personally been to the workshop here, but from their schedule it looks like they spend several sessions on basic programming c
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by njbooher 13y ago
I see a mix. I use Python, but during undergrad one of the required classes taught Perl. Now at a different university, the local bioinformatics group does a "Perl for Biologists" class, and I know at least one lab that still writes new stu
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by njbooher 14y ago
Wrong. The worst CAPTCHA ever is http://www.solvemedia.com/
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by njbooher 14y ago
It's even sorrier if the trie you want to search doesn't fit into memory. There are compressed suffix trees, but at the time all I could find was a C++ implementation[1] and I had to write my own bindings[2] using Cython. After figuring all
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by njbooher 14y ago
Repeats aren't necessarily junk (e.g. TAL Effectors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAL_effector#DNA_recognition ). Resolving them requires long reads. PacBio is currently of interest as an alternative to Sanger sequencing for this, although
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by njbooher 14y ago
edit: lost cause
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by njbooher 14y ago
Responding to messages or choosing not to is event handling.
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by njbooher 14y ago
I'd rather not introduce event-handling semantics to a list of strings. It's easier to add a 'filter' method. Granted, a distributed task queue might benefit from this, but I'd still rather not have it baked into everything.
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by njbooher 14y ago
Objects are nouns. They have attributes. Some of them can perform actions. Those actions ("verbs") are methods. It doesn't make sense to ask a noun to perform "where" or "length". Which part of this is confusing?
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by njbooher 14y ago
No, I prefer objects with attributes called 'length'.
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by njbooher 14y ago
Here it's a misuse of notation.
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by njbooher 14y ago
It's not a verb.
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by njbooher 14y ago
A method named 'where' seems really odd.
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by njbooher 14y ago
Use thrust ( http://thrust.github.com/ ). Or just learn CUDA. It's really not that bad.
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by njbooher 14y ago
Papers can be published about tools that are developed. For example, NAR has a web server issue every year. http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/content/40/W1.toc