Finder tips
Tips to use the Mac Finder effectively
Automatically update R installation
This is best done through RStudio which keeps everything up to date.
Cluster bwa mapping
Example of a mapping job script for a computing cluster.
Pdf2png
This is a way to convert multiple pdf files in a folder into pngs.
VCF to Lep-MAP
The following steps take a .vcf file with a full sib pedigree and turn it into a .linkage file for Lep-MAP.
Transpose data frame
It is very easy to flip transpose a data frame in R.
Density plot
A density plot can be used to compare the distribution of different variables.
I setup the sexChr_papers twitter bot following Rob Lanfear's instructions.
I am interested in papers on sex chromosome evolution, and thus remove medical search terms. The pubmed search is sex chromosome NOT aneuploidy NOT patient? NOT chronic NOT acute NOT clinical NOT prenatal NOT diagnostic NOT congenital NOT infant? NOT syndrome NOT trisom* NOT sperm.
Casey Bergman is gathering literature Twitter bots here.