METALS 2023 Conference
Last week I attended the metals 2023 meeting, hosted by ESO Vitacura, Santiago. The conference brought together researchers working on Continue Reading …
Decoding phylogenetic tree shapes
Phylogenetic trees can tell us about more than just the hierarchical order of our dataset. Taken together the position of Continue Reading …
What is a Terremoto?
Yesterday was the start of Las Fiestas Patrias in Chile which marks the beginning of Chilean independence celebrations! As i’m Continue Reading …
Example of a Bioinformatic command line tool
Introducing Transeq Now we have a basic understanding of the command line and why we want to use it, let’s Continue Reading …
Why use Bioinformatic software via the command line?
Often bioinformaticians need to run multiple programs to achieve a specific task, each with their own commands, arguments and options. Continue Reading …
Introduction to the Linux command line
Linux and the command line Linux is an open source operating system – anyone can use, modify and distribute this Continue Reading …
Dynamic variable names in R
Assigning dynamic variable names Sometimes you want to use dynamic variable names, these are variable names that change (dynamically) per Continue Reading …
EMGM meeting 2023 and the hypercube
The meeting Last month, whilst visiting collaborators and family in the UK, I attended the European Mathematical Genetics (EMGM 2023)meeting Continue Reading …
Python data structures and loops
What is a loop? We can think of loops as actions that return to the start after they have accomplished Continue Reading …
What is a FASTA file?
FASTA files DNA, amino acid and RNA sequences are often stored in FASTA file format. So what is a FASTA Continue Reading …