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  • Discoveries Weekly No. 1 (April 13-20, 2020)

    Here are the things I discovered this week that fascinates me.

  • Linking native routines between R packages - a demo

    In R programming, we need to link to native routines in C, C++, or Fortran from the R environment. In most cases, the linking works within one package, namely the R code in a package calls the native code in the same package.

  • Covariates and control variables explained

    This post tries to clarify what are covariates and control variables, and discuss how to treat them in the context of omics data analysis.

  • Filter BAM/SAM files by insert size

    In this blog post, we will talk about what is the insert size in Illumina sequencing reads, and how to find it in SAM/BAM files, and how to filter BAM files with it.

  • Bioinformatics approaches to understanding the MoA of a compound

    In March 2019, I was invited by Dr. Adrian Roth to give a lecture about bioinformatics approaches to understanding the MoA of a compound to master students of pharmacy in the course series of From Novel Targets To Novel Therapeutic Modalities at the University of Basel.