Neil is my new bioinformatics hero! (Sorry Pierre :)BioStar is a Q&A website for bioinformatics, just like the Blue Obelisk eXchange. Neil and Pierre have an ongoing struggle to gain the most karma, requiring Pierre to put in a formal complaint aga...
Egon writes: Can someone please plot the BioStar users on a Google Map? Sounds like a challenge. Let’s go. 1. Harvesting user IP addresses BioStar user profiles (here’s mine) include a location field. It’s free text and optional, which means that location is missing or inaccurate for many users. However, if you’re logged into BioStar 
Today, Neil posted an article titled" Connecting to a MongoDB database from R using Java". In the current post, I'll show how to use the C API for MongoDB to fetch some MongoDB data from R. The code will be somehow similar to my previous post "A stateful C function for R: parsing Fasta sequences".OK, First, let's...
I was reading an old post that describes GEOmetadb, a downloadable database containing metadata from the GEO database. We had a brief discussion in the comments about the growth in GSE records (user-submitted) versus GDS records (curated datasets) over time. Below, some quick and dirty R code to examine the issue, using the Bioconductor GEOmetadb 
The colossus of bioinformatics meetings, ISMB, convened in Boston this year from July 9 – 13. As in recent years, the meeting was covered online at its website, FriendFeed and Twitter. I thought it would be fun to run a quick analysis of activity at the FriendFeed room using R. 1. Fetch the data We 
As promised a few posts ago, another demonstration of the excellent biomaRt package, this time in conjunction with GenomeGraphs. Here’s what we’re going to do: Grab some public microarray data Normalise and get a list of the most differentially-expressed probesets Use biomaRt to fetch the genes associated with those probesets Plot the data using GenomeGraphs 
The authors here invited ACM KDD Innovation Award and IEEE ICDM Research Contributions Award winners to each nominate up to 10 best-known algorithms in data mining, including the algorithm name, justification for nomination, and a representative public...
In the following post, I'll create a C extension for R. This extension will iterate over all the FASTA sequences in a file and will return a pair(name,sequence) for each sequence, that is to say that I won't store all the sequences in memory.The C code...
In the following post, I will show how I've implemented a custom C function for R. This C function will translate a DNA to a protein. I'm very new to 'R' so feel free to make any comment about the code.C codeThe data in 'R' are stored in an opaque stru...
I wrote an R function to do soft-trimming, right clipping FastQ reads based on quality.This function has the option of leaving out sequences trimmed to extinction and will do left-side fixed trimming as well.#softTrim#trim first position lower than min...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
