The idea to check if some condition is true before executing some commands is very simple and useful. The Bash syntax, for historical reasons, is probably the ugliest you’ll ever...
After a small introduction to Bash scripting, we finally create a first bioinformatics script… introducing one of the loops we can use with the shell. A loop is a structure...
After using the Linux terminal for a while, everyone wants to be able to write simple “scripts” to perform repetitive tasks. They looks like recipes, with the main difference of...
Two popular formats to store structured data are XML and JSON.
They are used everywhere in computer science and appear more and more often in
bioinformatics analyses as well.
