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Microsoft announced that Power BI custom visuals will soon be available as charts with Excel.

www2.decipher.codes - DECIPHER is a software toolset that can be used for deciphering and managing biological sequences efficiently using the R programming language. The R package is distributed as platform independent source code under the GPL...

github.com - ggradar allows you to build radar charts with ggplot2. This package is based on Paul Williamson’s code, with new aesthetics and compatibility with ggplot2 2.0. It was inspired by d3radaR, an htmlwidget built...

http://efs.heiderlab.de/ - The software EFS (Ensemble Feature Selection) makes use of multiple feature selection methods and combines their normalized outputs to a quantitative ensemble importance. Currently, eight different feature selection methods have been integrated in...

github.com - RAINBOWR(Reliable Association INference By Optimizing Weights with R) is a package to perform several types of GWAS as follows. Single-SNP GWAS with RGWAS.normal function SNP-set (or gene set) GWAS with RGWAS.multisnp function (which tests...

www.phytools.org - R phylogenetics is built on the contributed packages for phylogenetics in R, and there are many such packages. Let's begin today by installing a few critical packages, such as ape, phangorn, phytools, and geiger. To get the most recent CRAN version...

How many variants of "omics" techniques presently in use ?

www.today.com - “What we really don’t know yet is whether the predictive aspects of the genome are going to turn out to be beneficial or potentially harmful” “As we roll out genomic medicine we are fighting against this society-wide...

biochem218.stanford.edu - Excellent article to introduce different sequencing methods along with tools for de novo assembly of sequencing reads and their relevant references. Title: Comparison of Short Read De Novo Alignment Algorithms  Author: Nikhil Gopal

www.biomedcentral.com - A. Hatem, D. Bozdag, A. E. Toland, U. V. Catalyurek "Benchmarking short sequence mapping tools" BMC Bioinformatics, 14(1):184, 2013. http://bmi.osu.edu/hpc/software/benchmark/ http://bmi.osu.edu/hpc/software/pmap/pmap.html Other similiar...