The Taub Faculty of Computer Science Events and Talks

Our new ability to create large amounts of biological data has created an abundance of tools to deal with the manipulations and data-mining required. however, like every new tool, they have limitations, edge-cases, and quirks. I've discovered that sometimes the old ways are the best ways. grep, sort, awk, and sed deal very will with large data-sets and parallel processing, and I've found that i use them for 90% of bioinformatic tasks, and quite successfully. I will describe the type of problems i am dealing with, and show why shell is the optimal solution. a quick genetics intro, in computer terms, will be given, so no biological knowledge is needed.