@davep
Developer, Emacs addict, geek. Hangs out with bioinformaticians as his day job.
Initially self-taught back in the early 1980s, I started programming on a ZX81 and I've been in love with software development ever since. My "primary" language has drifted over the years, but as it has I've made an effort to get to know and work with plenty of others.
These days I do a lot of Python/Django/JavaScript work, while having fun working with bioinformaticians and machine learning scientists.
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Sep 26, 2020 · 9 min read · This post will cover the most important content of a 2bit file: the actual sequence data itself. In the first post I wrote about the format of the file's header, and in the second post I wrote about the content of the file's index. At this point that...
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Sep 5, 2020 · 6 min read · As mentioned in the first post, once you've read in the header data for a 2bit file, the next step is to read the index. This is an index into all the different sequences held in the file. Reading the index itself is fairly straightforward. The index...
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Aug 30, 2020 · 9 min read · Introduction I've written a bit before about the value of having simple but interesting "problems", that you know the solution to, as a way of exercising yourself in a new environment. Recently I've added another to the list I already have, and I use...
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Aug 23, 2020 · 3 min read · I first learnt Python back in the mid-to-late 90s, used it in place of Perl once I was comfortable with it, and then we sort of drifted apart when I first met Ruby. It's only in the last couple of years that I've got back into it, and in a huge way, ...
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Jul 18, 2020 · 3 min read · First a small aside: To be honest, the T part of TIL is getting to be less and less true with this series of posts, but the posts themselves serve a useful purpose for me. As I've been reading the book I'm working through, I've also been making notes...
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