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Linux, free operating system for computers, provides several powerful admin tools and utilities which will help you to manage your systems effectively and handle huge amount of genomic/biological data with an ease. The field of bioinformatics relies...

Almost all the scripting languages such as Perl, Python etc have built-in sort, but unfortunately none of them are as flexible as sort command. But one when it come to space efficiency GNU sort stands at the top. It can sort a 20Gb file with less...

Linux Commands Cheat Sheet    File System    ls — list items in current directory    ls -l — list items in current directory and show in long format to see perimissions, size, an modification...

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....

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In an attempt to find a good Linux reference for bioinformatician and BOL readers, I was unsuccessful at finding a decent one on the Internet. So, we decided to make a cheat sheet for biological programmers.

Here come on let play with the following basic command line usage of the ssh client.1. Check your SSH Client Version:Checking for your SSH client is very sare, but sometimes it may be necessary to identify the SSH client that you are currently...

As bioinformatician I know the fact that we usually handle the large dataset and lost in the huge numbers of files and folders. In order to search the missing file a strong search command is required. The Linux Find Command is one of the most...

We use couple of hundreads of command in daily basis. Most of them are actually repeated several time. The question remain open how do I search old command history under bash shell and modify or reuse it? Now a days almost all modern shell allows...

By using plenv, you can easily install and switch among different version of Perl. This will be installed under your home directory in~/.plenv.