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R Bioinformatics Cookbook

By : Dan MacLean
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R Bioinformatics Cookbook

By: Dan MacLean

Overview of this book

Handling biological data effectively requires an in-depth knowledge of machine learning techniques and computational skills, along with an understanding of how to use tools such as edgeR and DESeq. With the R Bioinformatics Cookbook, you’ll explore all this and more, tackling common and not-so-common challenges in the bioinformatics domain using real-world examples. This book will use a recipe-based approach to show you how to perform practical research and analysis in computational biology with R. You will learn how to effectively analyze your data with the latest tools in Bioconductor, ggplot, and tidyverse. The book will guide you through the essential tools in Bioconductor to help you understand and carry out protocols in RNAseq, phylogenetics, genomics, and sequence analysis. As you progress, you will get up to speed with how machine learning techniques can be used in the bioinformatics domain. You will gradually develop key computational skills such as creating reusable workflows in R Markdown and packages for code reuse. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained a solid understanding of the most important and widely used techniques in bioinformatic analysis and the tools you need to work with real biological data.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Simple ways to package code for sharing and reuse

Inevitably, there will come a time when you want to be able to reuse some functions or classes and not have to type (or—horror—copy and paste) them in every time. Having just one reliable version of things in one place makes it easy to manage and keep on top of mistakes and changes in code. So, in this recipe, we'll look at two simple ways of wrapping code up to reuse it. We'll touch on the very basics of package creation, though the packages we will make will be quite bare-bones and will need quite some fleshing outespecially with documentation and tests—before you consider releasing them. The packages you make in this way, though, will help you out as you develop your code.

Getting ready

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