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Buy My Book!

Published
by
Daz
on November 26, 2008
in other
. 0 Comments

Was I really involved in writing something that sounds this classy?!?!

“Modern bioinformatics encompasses a broad and ever-changing range of activities involved with the management and analysis of data from molecular biology experiments. Despite the diversity of activities and applications, the basic methodology and core tools needed to tackle bioinformatics problems is common to many projects. Building Bioinformatics Solutions provides a comprehensive introduction to this methodology, explaining how to acquire and use the most popular development tools, how to apply them to build processing pipelines, and how to make the results available through visualisations and web-based services for deployment either locally or via the Internet. The main development tools covered in this book are the MySQL database management system, the Perl programming language, and the R language for statistical computing. These industry standard open source tools form the core of many bioinformatics projects, both in academia and industry. The methodologies introduced are platform independent, and all the examples that feature have been tested on Windows, Linux and Mac OS. This advanced textbook is suitable for graduate students and researchers in the life sciences who wish to automate analyses or create their own databases and web-based tools. No prior knowledge of software development is assumed. Having worked through the book, the reader should have the necessary core skills to develop computational solutions for their specific research programmes. The book will also help the reader overcome the inertia associated with penetrating this field, and provide them with the confidence and understanding required to go on to develop more advanced bioinformatics skills.”

The book that I am a co-author on, Building Bioinformatics Solutions is shortly going to be available on Amazon (UK) and Amazon (US) as well as other countries.

If you’re looking for an introduction to some of the tools used in the field of Bioinformatics (programming, databases, data analysis) or even just looking for a general introduction to Perl programming, MySQL or R why not check it out. :)

Still here and after more?!?! Why not head on over to bixsolutions.net - the companion site for the book, and take a peek at what’s on offer.

Now get off my lawn! ;)

Installing R/BioConductor on Ubuntu 8.04

Published
by
Daz
on May 7, 2008
in linux
. 1 Comment

The new version of Ubuntu is out, (as if you haven’t heard that by now), so that means a fresh install to play about with and working just the way I want! :D

One of the tools that I currently need (for the thesis work) is R and the BioConductor libraries. So here’s a quick run down on getting them up and installed on Hardy…

First up, run these commands in a terminal:

sudo apt-get install build-essential g77 gfortran
sudo apt-get install refblas3 refblas3-dev zlib1g-dev
sudo apt-get install r-base

This will then install the R base packages and some of the BioConductor packages, along with the gcc and fortran compilers and some other libraries that will be required for the next step.

sudo -s
R

Now at the R prompt, type the following…

source("http://www.bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
biocLite()

Now sit back for a few minutes while your system configures BioConductor for you.