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Python data structures (1)

Built-in data structures in Python: lists, tuples, sets, and dictionaries.

Mounting CLIMB S3 buckets in a Linux Virtual Machine (VM)

The MRC CLIMB BIG DATA project offers modern storage in the form of S3 buckets, an object storage introduced by Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Word distribution, an example project for Python beginners

Counting the number of occurrences of each word in a text is a common task in computational linguistics. It is also a good example of how to use Python to...

Linux Command Line for Bioinformatics

A tutorial on the Linux command line (CLI) and its use in bioinformatics.

Virome: a primer

“Virome refers to the assemblage of viruses that is often investigated and described by metagenomic sequencing of viral nucleic acids that are found associated with a particular ecosystem, organism or...