Formatting strings with variables is a common task in programs. Through the years, different methods have become available to achieve this in Python. The easiest, but also least efficient, method i...

Though the main tasks of a bioinformatician are programming software for data-analysis, actually analyzing the data, and further research to connect the computational data and results with the biol...

Screen is an amazing tool for linux that has saved me more than once, allowing me to run long-running processes in the background and disconnect from them. In turn allowing me to continue working w...

The main tasks of a bioinformatician are programming software for data-analysis, actually analyzing the data, and further research to connect the computational data and results with the biology. Ho...

Contingency tables are a great tool in comparison analyses. In the simplest form a contingency table places one set of results against another set of results. In the example below two methods are c...

Nucleotide sequences (DNA or RNA) are one of the most common data types to work with in bioinformatics. Depending on the use-case they are stored in a fasta or fastq formatted file. Fasta is a sim...

Phred scores are a common metric in bioinformatics to assign quality, in most cases to individual bases (A, T, C, G). Though they are used as quality scores, Phred scores actually represent a proba...

Simple conditions are easily taken care of with if-else statements. In cases that multiple conditions need to be satisfied the statements are extended using an AND operator. This can lead to comple...

A great goal in business, programming, and perhaps even life is efficiency. An enormous amount of effort is put into processes and automation to perform as efficiently as possible. This can be seen...

In many algorithms, such as bubble sort, there is a need to swap values. In most cases this happens in the same array or list object. Others require the swapping of variables. A simple solution is ...