PerlOneLiner for Bioinformatician
...like an email address/\S+@\S+\.\S+/ # Check if the string is a decimal number/^\d+$//^[+-]?\d+$//^[+-]?\d+\.?\d*$/ # Check if the string is a hexadecimal number/^0x[0-9a-f]+$/i # Che...2300 days ago
Structure of Binary files used for storing sequencing data-bam and sff
Many times bioinformatician needs to parse binary files like bam and sff. Advantage of binary files is that they occupy less space in memory with maximum information content. Link for those who looking for structure of Bam and sff file: Bam: http://samtools.sourceforge.net/SAMv1.pdf (from...Tags: bam, sff, sam, iontorrent data, 454 data, pyrosequencing data, hxd, hexadecimal, binary files, sequencing
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