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Jan Lisec from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology explains, in this "pimp your brain" episode, what bioinformatics is and why bioinformatics is so important and indispensable for biological research. In the video serial "Pimp...

Part of the reason R has become so popular is the vast array of packages available at the cran and bioconductor repositories. In the last few years, the number of packages has grown exponentially! This is a short post giving steps on how to...

This tutorial is intended to introduce users quickly to the basics of R, focusing on a few common tasks that  biologists need to perform  some basic analysis:  load a table, plot some graphs, and perform some basic statistics. More...

R is a functional based language, the inputs to a function, including options, are in brackets. Note that all dat and options are separated by a comma Function(data, options) Even quit is a function q() So is...

For a beginner this can be is the hardest part, it is also the most important to get right. It is possible to create a vector by typing data directly into R using the combine function ‘c’ x same as x creates the vector x...

homes.sice.indiana.edu - Machine learning techniques have been successful in analyzing biological data because of their capabilities in handling randomness and uncertainty of data noise and in generalization. In this class, we will learn basics about probabilistic models...

R 3.2.0 (codename “Full of Ingredients”) was released yesterday.

wikis.utexas.edu - The Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV) from the Broad Center allows you to view several types of data files involved in any NGS analysis that employs a reference genome, including how reads from a dataset are mapped, gene annotations, and predicted...

Python is a general-purpose language, which means it can be used to build just about anything, which will be made easy with the right tools/libraries. Professionally, Python is great for backend web development, data analysis, artificial...

Python Programming is a general purpose programming language that is open source, flexible, powerful and easy to use. One of the most important features of python is its rich set of utilities and libraries for data processing and analytics...