Éric – IRIC's Bioinformatics Platform

About Éric

I’ve started as a computer scientist, then quickly realised that bioinformatics is saturated by puzzles to solve. As in the "The Summit of the Gods" (Jirō Taniguchi), there is always a new mountain to climb or a path more straightforward.

Create a nice looking table using R

Hi everyone, Today I will introduce formattable. This package is designed for applying formatting on vectors and data frames to make data presentation easier, richer, more flexible and hopefully convey more information. We will see how to use this package to interpret your data at a glance, with just a few lines of code (You can follow along below as well as check all the code in my git). Before going further, I will specify that this package is generally used [...]

By Éric|2017-10-25T10:14:46+00:00March 30, 2017|Categories: Data Visualization, R|Tags: data analysis, web development|9 Comments

Introduction to cowplot to combine several plots in one with R

Hi everyone, Today I will introduce cowplot, an extension of ggplot2 library. Some helpful extensions and modifications to the 'ggplot2' package. In particular, this package makes it easy to combine multiple 'ggplot2' plots into one and label them with letters, e.g. A, B, C, etc., as is often required for scientific publications. As you can see, this library can be useful to easily create a figure containing multiple plots. But we will see how we can use it to create [...]

By Éric|2017-04-29T16:22:55+00:00November 28, 2016|Categories: Data Visualization, R|0 Comments

Fastest method to compute an AUC

Context: AUC is an acronym for "Area Under the (ROC) Curve". If you are not familiar with the ROC curve and AUC, I suggest reading this blog post before to continuing further. For several projects, I needed to compute a large number of AUC. It started with 25,000, increased to 230,000 and now I need to compute 1,500,000 AUC. With so many AUC, the time to compute each one becomes critical. On the web, I don't find much information about this specific [...]

By Éric|2017-04-29T16:56:33+00:00August 18, 2016|Categories: Performance, Python, R, Statistics|Tags: area under the curve|2 Comments

Factorial and Log Factorial

Factorial: When you need to calculate n!, you have several solutions. The "rush" solution: using a loop or a recursive function: def factorial_for(n): r = 1 for i in range(2, n + 1): r *= i return(r) def factorial_rec(n): if n > 1: return(n * factorial_rec(n - 1)) else: return(1) Here, the multiplication of the numbers sequentially will create a huge number very quickly. This is good, but computers are faster when 2 small numbers (120x30240) are involved in a multiplication versus the [...]

By Éric|2017-04-29T15:33:07+00:00February 22, 2016|Categories: Performance, Python|Tags: data analysis|0 Comments

[Python] Iterators vs Generators

In Python, there are iterators and generators. You probably already use iterators without even knowing that you do so. But understanding the difference between those two concepts is really important since choosing one over the other has a huge impact on memory usage. If you are working with small datasets, memory usage might not be your first concern. However, with big datasets, it is another story. So what are they exactly, iterators and generators? Iterators The process of going through [...]

By Éric|2017-04-29T15:37:35+00:00September 18, 2015|Categories: Performance, Python|0 Comments