Caution: fastacmd is not case-sensitive
I have used the NCBI BLAST toolkit to extract sequences from a fasta-formatted file. Briefly, a fasta file can be…
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How to add Chinese Pinyin (拼音) in Microsoft Word 2007?
After searching google, I found a great video to add Chinese Pinyin (拼音) to Chinese characters in Word. In Word…
Install Jekyll on Windows
What is Jekyll? Jekyll is a set of ruby packages to make website and blog maintenance automatic. It can convert…
ROC curve and Area Under ROC Curve (AUC)
ROC curve and AUC explained.
The history of sequencing in industry
Sequencing technologies have transformed biological research dramatically. They themselves also experienced fast evolution: cost reduction and bankruptcies. See the history…
Conditional regular expression and Branch reset in Perl
Conditional expression and branch reset make regular expression more powerful
My paper on Drosophila X chromosome regulation is online now
I am pretty happy that my paper on the comparison of the mRNA translation rates between X chromosome and autosomes…
A note on Globus
Today I tried to download the data from the Phytozome database. One method is using Globus. It turned out that…
CUA: Codon Usage Analyzer
A flexible and comprehensive codon usage analyzer
Firefox can not access nature.com due to erroneous cookies
Solve the firefox problem due to cookies