Hmm .. Don't worry you read it right .. this is not pi but bi ... "life of Bioinformatician(BI)".
Disclaimer: This cartoon is solely designed to create humour and fun, not to offend any PI, supervisor or student.
Most Perl modules are written in Perl, some use XS (they are written in C) so require a C compiler (it's easy to get this setup - don't panic), see your OS of choice below to find out how to get the right compiler. Modules...
It's been a while since I last installed BLAT and when I went to the download directory at UCSC: http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~kent/src/ I found that the latest blast is now version 35 and that the code to download was: blatSrc35.zip....
journals.plos.org - Illumina Sequencing data can provide high coverage of a genome by relatively short (most often 100 bp to 150 bp) reads at a low cost. Even with low (advertised 1%) error rate, 100 × coverage Illumina data on average has an error in some read...