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Lost when using National Center for Biotechnology (NCBI) resources?  Take a look at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/home/learn/ for tutorials, documentations and webinars!…

Check out my tutorial for NCBI’s Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database!  It’s listed under “training” => “video tutorials – gene expression databases”…

Welcome to Joe’s blog

Hello!  Welcome to my weekly blog for interesting and exciting bioinformatics training opportunities and resources!…

Getting a handle on your storage

If you’re working in genomics and bioinformatics, most likely you’ve run out of disk space at some point in your life. We deal with large datasets that have a way of proliferating beyond our control, and it’s not always easy to know how much space our files are using, especially…

Job management made easier

Last week we saw how to launch jobs using the submit command. After doing that you usually need to check running jobs, and occasionally modify or cancel them. In this post we will look at a few other commands that allow you to do just that. The first one,…

The submit command

The submit command is a user-friendly replacement for sbatch (under slurm) or qsub (under PBS). It is available in the dibig_tools module, and offers several useful features compared to the original commands. Its basic syntax is: $ module load dibig_tools  $ submit [submit_options] script.qsub [script_arguments...] For historical reasons, we’ll assume…

Introducing dibig_tools!

dibig_tools is a collection of software for bioinformatics that I developed over the last few years. It is available as a module on HiPerGator, and it includes the following: My Damon framework to develop bioinformatics pipelines; Several pipelines developed with Damon for various analysis types (e.g. RNA-Seq,…