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Little bioinformatic script - Read extractor

Aug 24, 2021 · 3 min read · Hi everybody 👋! It's been a while since my last post. I've been busy with my PhD🧬, and this post it's related to it. I needed to extract reads (a particular DNA sequence after sequencing). It's a fairly easy process if you have to do it just a coup...

Improving your plots using Inkscape ♠

May 6, 2021 · 3 min read · Hello everybody! 👋 I use Excel a lot 📊, and even though its graphics are decent, in some occasions I couldn't customize them to my liking. I had the same issue with some R libraries and some other specific bioinformatics software (most of the time,...

Searching in big DataFrames? Pandas to the rescue!

Apr 16, 2021 · 2 min read · Hello everybody! 👋 I work with bioinformatic data (RNA-sequencing 🧬, etc), which is formed for thousands and thousands of text lines (resulting in files with sizes from 5gb to around 30gb). I was working with differential gene expression (DGE) data...

Working with money 💲 in Pandas 🐼

Apr 8, 2021 · 2 min read · Hello everybody! 👋 I was analyzing a dataframe 📝 with a column of prices. Unfortunately, it was formatted as text, not as numbers ($4000.00, for example). After searching for posible ways of solving this issue, I managed to do it using regular expr...

Getting the names of all files in a folder with python

Apr 3, 2021 · 2 min read · Hello everybody! 👋 Recently I needed to analyze a bunch of microRNAs 🧬(small pieces of RNA that negatively regulates gene expression). I had plots of this molecules, a pdf file for each of them, and I needed to sort them in an easily readable table...