Learning R: R can read compressed files!

It might be a tad hard to believe, but I am new ... well ... somewhat new, to R. I have been using R for a while, but it has been mostly by copying the proper commands from some place, understanding what they do, then putting them into a program of mine so that the … Continue reading Learning R: R can read compressed files!

NCBI’s blast 2.2.29+ compiled under mavericks

NOTE: I write these examples exactly the way they worked for me. No guarantees whatsoever, etc, etc. NCBI released a new version of blast: 2.2.29+ on January 6 (the newest versions of blast are always available at ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/blast/executables/LATEST/). Given my obsession with having the latest versions of whatever in my machines, and to compile them … Continue reading NCBI’s blast 2.2.29+ compiled under mavericks