http://www.nodalpoint.org/nodalpoint_tags/computational_biology Comments for "computational biology" en http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/03/16/advice_to_a_young_computational_biologist#comment-3409 <p>Thanks for the link Greg. Better than reading PhD comics all day (<a href="http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php" title="http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php">http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php</a>). As a fan of Xlisp-stat, I've long been looking for some interactive plotting software. My gift today is a nice toy which is almost solves what I was (almost) drove to write myself out of frustration. The problem: interacting with your visual data (plots). The new toy which makes data exploration fun again (I tend to use R) : iplots (<a href="http://www.rosuda.org/iplots/" title="http://www.rosuda.org/iplots/">http://www.rosuda.org/iplots/</a>), a java graphing R package that allows "callbacks" to R data structures. Very cool, seamless install. It's not perfect, as all calls seem to have to orignate from R; the use of &gt;iset.selected() in R calls the data points highlighted in the graph. But there are some right-click graph transformation features scattered here and there; I assume that the iplots project will continue to evolve.</p> <p>The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong, it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.<br /> �Douglas Adams</p> <br class="clear" /> Sat, 17 Mar 2007 21:20:27 -0400 mako comment 3409 at http://www.nodalpoint.org http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/03/16/advice_to_a_young_computational_biologist#comment-3404 <p>Configuration files are particularly useful in compiled languages such as java and C.<br /> The runtime behavior can be changed without needing recompilation.<br /> I don't know about C, but Java has the Properties class for parsing config files.</p> <br class="clear" /> Fri, 16 Mar 2007 06:53:00 -0400 michael comment 3404 at http://www.nodalpoint.org