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github.com - MCE spawns a pool of workers and therefore does not fork a new process per each element of data. Instead, MCE follows a bank queuing model. Imagine the line being the data and bank-tellers the parallel workers. MCE enhances that model by adding the...

Here is a small tutorial on how to make best use of multiple processors for bioinformatics analysis. One best way is using perl threads and forks. Knowing how these threads and forks work is very important before implementing them. Getting to know...

theory.stanford.edu - Moss (for a Measure Of Software Similarity) is an automatic system for determining the similarity of programs. To date, the main application of Moss has been in detecting plagiarism in programming classes. Since its development in 1994, Moss has...

R Language conference

www.rdatamining.com - This website presents examples, documents and resources on data mining with R. Documents on using R for data mining are available to download for non-commercial personal use, including R Reference card for Data Mining, R and Data Mining:...

R 3.0.3 (codename “Warm Puppy) was released several days ago.

The sva package contains functions for removing batch effects and other unwanted variation in high-throughput experiment.

The pacman package is an R package management tool that combines the functionality of base library related functions into intuitively named functions.

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...