Life as a Bioinformatics Freelancer: The tools
Some information on what technology I found useful for doing my work for different projects as a consulting bioinformatics scientist.
Category: software
Using Container Software
Docker and Singularity are very appealing software systems to run different operating systems or reproducible analysis steps by using “containers”. Here is a quick intro to get you started.
NoSQL Databases
Originally developed for large-scale web applications, nosql databases like to see themselves as next generation dbs and are using “not only sql”.
Detect user’s OS using bash
Here is an approach to detect the user’s operating system using a bash script. This might be useful during installation routines of your software.
Create BigWig files with DeepTools
To display data as bar graphs along the genome e.g. in the UCSC genome browser, you can create BigWig files. DeepTools is a powerful library that can also help with this.