Find Relationships Quickly in Data With Chart::Plot
This lightweight module powers through data
Data Munging for Non-Programming Biologists
Have you ever renamed 768 files? Merged the content from 96 files into a spreadsheet? Filtered 100 lines out of a 20,000-line file? Have you ever done these things by hand? Disciples of laziness-one of the three Perl programmer’s…
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Parsing iCal Data
One of the attributes of a killer application is that it does something cool: it allows you to view or organize information in new and interesting ways, saves you time, or helps you win that auction bid. Yet one…
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Implementing Flood Control
Accordingly to Merriam-Webster Online, “flood” means: 1: a rising and overflowing of a body of water especially onto normally dry land; 2: an overwhelming quantity or volume. In computer software there are very similar situations when an unpredictable and irregular…
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Using Bloom Filters
Anyone who has used Perl for any length of time is familiar with the lookup hash, a handy idiom for doing existence tests
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A Chromosome at a Time with Perl, Part 2
James D. Tisdall is the author of the recently released Mastering Perl for Bioinformatics. In my previous article, A Chromosome at a Time with Perl, Part I, I showed you some programming “tricks” that help you avoid the trap…
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A Chromosome at a Time with Perl, Part 1
James D. Tisdall is the author of the soon-to-be-released Mastering Perl for Bioinformatics. For some time now, the use of Perl in biology has been standard practice. Perl remains the most popular language among biologists for a multitude of…
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Genomic Perl
This is a book I have been looking forward to for a long time. Back when James Tisdall had just finished his Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics, I asked him to write an article about how to get into bioinf…
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Beginning Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics, the use of computers in biology research, has been increasing in importance during the past decade as the Human Genome Project went from its beginning to the announcement last year of a “draft” of the complete sequence of…
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Parsing Protein Domains with Perl
The Perl programming language is popular with biologists because of its practicality. In my book, Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics, I demonstrate how many of the things biologists want to write programs for are readily-even enjoyably-accomplished with Perl. My book…
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Quantum::Entanglement
There Is More Than One World (In Which) To Do It With the possible exception of many physicists, quantum mechanics is one of the stranger things to have emerged from science over the last hundred years. It has led…
