a seminar on makefile and pipelines of shell scripts
While I still haven’t had the time to restore the old posts in this blog, I would like to post again my seminar on makefiles. This slideshow is different from all the others you can find on makefiles, because instead of showing you how to use it to compile programs, it shows you how make can be used to create pipelines of shell programs and scripts, which is very useful in bioinformatics and in other fields. Let’s say you have a lot of scripts to analyze the results of an experiment: for example, one to launch blast, another to parse its output, to compare it with other databases, to run command line programs… or just to organize a bundle of sed/grep/gawk

how to read and plot a CSV file with python and pylab
Today I gave a small introductive talk to how to read a CSV file and create some plots with python and pylab. Here you have the slides: Plotting data with python and pylab View more documents from Giovanni Dall’Olio. I have uploaded them on slideshare and created a blog post here, as I used to do in my former poor and once-glorious blog

Starting from 3
Dear readers of this blog, I have decided to start writing new posts and articles in this blog, and temporanely abandon the idea of restoring the old contents, which I will try do to when I will have more spare time. The responsability of the blackout of this site is both mine, because I haven’t been very keen on fixing it, and of my host provider, which changed the conditions of the contract too quickly without giving me enough time to make a proper backup and organize a migration. Now I have a raw SQL file containing all the data in the previous blog, but because of a lack of time I didn’t manage yet to use it to restore the previous articles, so for th