The past few weeks have been terribly busy with all kind of end-of-year things, so I didn’t manage to find time for posting new Emacs tips. Sorry about that 😇. So, without further ado, here’s a new one. This week’s tip is about pasting with the mouse. By default, Emacs acts like most other applications: […]
Read full case studyThis week’s tip is about balancing delimiters like parentheses, brackets, quotes, etc. The built-in electric-pair-mode does the following then enabled (copied from the manual, emphasis mine): Electric Pair mode, a global minor mode, provides a way to easily insert matching delimiters: parentheses, braces, brackets, etc. Whenever you insert an opening delimiter, the matching closing delimiter […]
Read full case studyTramp is a built-in Emacs “package” that allows you to edit files on remote servers with your local Emacs instance. But it doesn’t only do that, it can also be used to edit files as root via sudo. To achieve this use C-x C-f as you normally would to open a file. However, instead of […]
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Read full case studyThis database stores tens of billions of associations of genetic variants with human traits, investigated by the scientific community in hundreds of studies. Knowledge of such associations allows for better understanding of human genetics and biology and can contribute to the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of diseases. The results of the work were published in […]
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Basic Linux command line skills are essential for researchers working in omics science and other fields revolving around big data. In collaboration with the Genetic Epidemiology group of the Erasmus University Medical Centre in Rotterdam, NL, we developed a course called “Linux for scientists” which has been running since 2011. Linux command line skills are […]
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I recently had to send a couple of ZFS file systems from one server to another, both running Ubuntu Linux 16.04. Since both servers were in the same trusted local network, there was no need for encryption. As various other websites will tell you, the fastest way to transfer data over a local network is […]
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Recently we published an overview paper of the GenABEL Project [1] on F1000Research. The GenABEL Project is a framework for collaborative, robust, transparent, open-source based development of statistical genomics methodology that PolyOmica sponsors. One of the reasons for publishing this overview paper was that we felt the need for a single, easy-to-point-to reference for the […]
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