Next week I will submit a new research grant. One document that I needed to update for this submission was my scientific CV. I believe that such a CV needs to have a list of your scientific publications, or a selected relevant subset. I decided that I wanted to spice up the CV a little […]
In December 2016, I apparently had lots of time to kill. Two years into my PhD I had acquired enough programming and Linux skills that I felt comfortable enough to start experimenting with these credit card-size computers. So I borrowed a Raspberry Pi from a friend and started looking for possible interesting projects. I quickly […]
I have been enjoying Julia (the programming language) for roughly half a year now. I am no expert, but I have integrated it in many analysis steps of my research, resulting in a weekly usage. Last week JuliaCon 2020 happened, a language-specific conference that due to the current pandemic, was held completely virtual. I did […]
Today I needed to extract the headers of multiple fasta files in order to compare them. R is no good for this so I though this would be a good job to test my Julia skills again. This was surprisingly straightforward to do with Julia’s FASTX package. The script below does the following: Search a […]
I made this tutorial as part of the emblr sessions. I hope you enjoy it as well! Introduction In this tutorial I will give a short introduction on the functionalities of the purrr package. I love this quote by Rebecca Barter that exactly described my feeling about this package before I started working with it: […]
I am a huge fan of the statistical programming language R. The initial reason why I fell in love with R is mainly because of it’s awesome data visualisation library ggplot2. The versatility of this package makes it probably the most powerful tool in my data science/bio-informatics toolbox. Slowly, more and more packages related to […]
I am not so much a past-looking person. That’s maybe because I don’t have the best memory and value living today much more than living in the past. Nevertheless, 2019 has been an interesting year for me and probably one to remember. And one of the things that I learned from spending 10 years at […]
It’s November. For us Europeans, and most inhabitants of the Northern Hemisphere, that means that the days are getting colder and darker again. The trees are losing their leaves and people go nuts about collecting nuts in the forests. Still, I think November is a nice month. Why? Because October has ended. “What’s wrong with […]
A few months ago, I had finally started drafting my PhD thesis. My number one question at that time was: What text editor shall I open? I’m running Ubuntu, so using Microsoft Office Word was not an option, as installing this on a Linux machine can be very troublesome. Therefore, these were the options that […]