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 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 […]