How pretty would that look in my article? Very Pretty! As well as being informative! You might want to use a Circos for your own personal analysis or as an article figure. In both cases, this kind of representation is useful when it comes to visualizing data in a more global or complete manner: you can have multiple types of data ranging across various chromosomal sequences. However, as wonderful and exciting the idea of having your own personal Circos might [...]
A member of the platform recently stumbled upon a bug in his python code. Once we got to the bottom of it, we were surprised to find that the bug in question had been caused by a peculiar behavior of Python. Let's take the following code as example : def foo(bar=[]): bar.append('a') return bar Intuitively, this piece of code might seem like it ought to return the list ['a'] whenever it is run. In practice, it is not quite so. >>>foo() [...]
If you're like me, you've probably noticed that, by default, the python scripts we write only use a portion of the processing power at our disposal.. As such, you've probably said to yourself: Hey, I paid good money for a quad-core CPU ! What's happening ? While it's true that nowadays, most CPUs are multi-core, the code we write must also be tailored appropriately in order to make use of more than one at a time. So let's dive into [...]
- What is static program analysis ? Static program analysis allows the gathering of informations about the execution behaviour of your code without actually executing it. It is the opposite of dynamic program analysis (like debugging) which required the code to be executed. - Ok! But why should I use this in practice ? To save time by suppressing the save/execute cycles induced by syntax errors (missing ";", function or variable not initialized, typos, ...). Correcting these errors at the [...]
So you have spent much time converting your simple R plot to a full-fledged ggplot2 graph with all its bells and whistles just to find that you are unable to identify a point on this graph to further investigate it. Indeed, the typical identify method is not applicable to ggplot2 graphs. Fortunately, there is a solution, which involves performing all the work yourself by going under the hood of ggplot2 to access the low-level graphics system on which it is [...]
