Getting Genetics Done

Since the near beginning of genome-wide association studies, the PLINK software package (developed by Shaun Purcell’s group at the B...

This is an issue that has bugged me for years, and I've finally found a good solution on osxdaily and Stack Overflow . I'm using Te...

Farhad Manjoo at Slate has a good article on why you need to learn how to program . Chances are, if you're reading this post here you...

Your Rprofile is a script that R executes every time you launch an R session. You can use it to automatically load packages, set your workin...

Just saw the announcement of the availability of Rstudio , a new (free & open source) integrated development environment for R that wor...

A while back I asked you what reference management software you used, and how well you liked it. I received 180 responses, and here's w...

About a year ago I wrote a post about Dropbox - a free, awesome, cross-platform utility that syncs files across multiple computers and s...

Obtaining the probability that zero, one, or two alleles are shared identical by descent (IBD) is useful for many reasons in a GWAS analysis...

I recently reformatted my laptop and needed to reinstall R and all the packages that I regularly use. In a previous post I covered R Command...

Note 2010-11-17: there's more than one way to do this. See the updated post from 2010-11-17 . If you use blogger or even wordpress you...

Several readers emailed me or left a comment on my previous announcement of Frank Harrell's workshop on using Sweave for reproducibl...

In my previous post about Q10 a commenter suggested a software called "The Journal" by davidRM for productively keeping track o...

This is the first in a series of posts on how to use MySQL with genetic data analysis. MySQL is a very popular, freely available database m...

Do you ever find yourself switching back and forth between your work computer, your laptop, and your home computer?  This happens to me all ...

In the last post I showed you how to point to a file in windows and get the full path copied to your clipboard.  I wanted to come up with s...

When you need to focus and get some serious writing done, it may be a good idea to ditch your word processor and go with plain text instead....

How often have you needed to extract a certain column from a file, or strip out only a few individuals from a ped file? This is often done ...

And it will do way more than display "Hello, world!" to the screen. An anonymous commenter on one of our Linux posts recently ask...

RSS rocks. In addition to consolidating all the news you read on a single page, it's also handy for keeping up with the latest publicati...