HPC for Bioinformatics (3/?): Head Nodes
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HPC clusters can be daunting to beginners. This blog post explains the difference of compute and head nodes and goes into detail on head nodes.
Unix Sleight of Hand (2/?): Robust Column Extraction
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Many Bioinformaticians spend a lot of their time handling text files. Linux (and other Unixes) excel at processing text files and offer many tools for handling it. However, extracting a particular column from text files is surprisingly hard. This blog post explores some robust solutions.
Unix Sleight of Hand (1/?): Bash Job Control
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This post deals with the basics “and beyond” of job control in Bash. The Bourne Again Shell (Bash) arguably is the most widely used POSIX-compliant shell. It has been around since 1989 and is still alive and kicking.
HPC for Bioinformatics (2/?): Machine Installation
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This post describes the two basic options for system installation that we have tried so far.
HPC for Bioinformatics (1/?): Introduction
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This is the first entry in the HPC for Bioinformatics series.