In several of my projects, I have to focus on specific regions of a genome, let’s say while looking for binding peaks. It is quite common to download a full genome as a fasta file, or each chromosome separately from Ensembl or NCBI. However, it is difficult to get a specific region of a genome […]
The topic of today is about Venn diagrams, see here for a detailed defition. I will quickly show you how to draw a Venn diagram composed of three distinct datasets in R. For this purpose you will need the VennDiagram package. Start R and install the required package as follow: The main command to draw […]
As bioinformaticians, we often have to deal with computer clusters. There are different computer cluster systems available such as SGE, LSF… Although the main idea is the same, the commands used to submit a job might be slightly different. In this article I will quickly show how to submit a job to an SGE (Sun […]