Python

Get notifications on desktop and mobile from long-running jobs in your terminal sessions
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Bash R Python
Use ntfy.sh to send yourself desktop and mobile push notifications when long-running terminal jobs finish.
Animate a rotating protein from the Protein Data Bank
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Python
Make an animated gif of a rotating protein structure from the Protein Data Bank, here a human HLA-TCR complex (6py2).
Build bioinformatics pipelines with Snakemake
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Python Tutorial
Snakemake is a Pythonic variant of GNU Make. Recently, I learned how to use it to build and launch bioinformatics pipelines on an LSF cluster. However, I had trouble understanding …
Join multiple PLINK dosage files into one file
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Python
If you have multiple PLINK dosage files and would like to merge them into one file, this script might save you some time.
Count the number of coding base pairs in each Gencode gene
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Python
We can use Python to count the coding base pairs in each Gencode gene. Here, we report the base pair count by gene rather than by transcript. When we encounter different …
0-based and 1-based genomic intervals, overlap, and distance
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Python
Here, I describe two kinds of genomic intervals and include source code for testing overlap and calculating distance between intervals.