Suggestions for Reproducible Bioinformatic Analyses

Posted on Fri 09 August 2019 in commentary • Tagged with bioinformatics, thoughts, workflows

Bioinformatic analyses often require lengthy workflows or pipleines, where the output of program A feeds into program B, and so on. These programs may also not output their results in a format which is convenient to use in the subsequent steps, requiring writing a conversion script, or piping its output …


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Variations on RNAseq Workflows for DEG Analysis

Posted on Tue 09 July 2019 in commentary • Tagged with bioinformatics, thoughts, rnaseq, workflows

When analyzing RNAseq you're faced with many possible analysis pipelines. The biggest decision you need to make is what the purpose of your experiment is. I will make the assumption that most of the time people want to determine which genes are differentially expressed between two samples, genotypes, conditions, etc …


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