Category Archives: biology

blasr (pacbio) installation on fedora box

Posted on October 9, 2017 by Thomas Cokelaer

I wanted to use blasr tool for Pacbio mapping and had difficulties in using or installing the tool. I first use a local installation of the tool on the provided cluster and it look like the installation was quite old. … Continue reading →

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conda and bioconda channel

Posted on February 23, 2016 by Thomas Cokelaer

Anaconda ( https://www.continuum.io/downloads ) provides a Python distribution with more than 400 of the most popular Python packages for science, math, engineering, and data analysis. Anaconda installs an executable called conda that will be your entry point. Anaconda solves two … Continue reading →

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Accessing Life Science Web Services from Python

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Thomas Cokelaer

In a previous post, I started to discuss about Web Services in Life Science and what a maze it is to navigate between them. Some Web Services provides Python code to access to their databases but not all of them. … Continue reading →

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