`rapsearch` Returns
Following completion of my most recent side-quest to find a little more about who the protozoa actually are and where they live in the context of UniProt, I now had a starting point to append to my archive of hydrolase records. I had already shown that around 1,500 Ciliophora-associated hydrolases could be extracted from UniProt, […]
Raiding `rapsearch` Results
Finally. After all the trouble I’ve had trying to scale BLAST, running out of disk space, database accounting irregularities and investigating an archive_exception, we have data. Thanks to the incredible speed of rapsearch, what I’ve been trying to accomplish over the past few months with BLAST has been done in mere hours without the hassle […]
Aligned Annihilation II: Dumpster Diving
I tried to extract a single integer from a core dump and instead fell in to an abyss and learned how to be a computer.
Aligned Annihilation
This afternoon in a coffee fueled fugue, I nuked every directory containing output for any attempt to align the limpet contigs to any form of database so far. Here’s why, and what I did next.
What am I doing?
A week ago I had a progress meeting with Amanda and Wayne, who make up the supervisory team for the computational face of my project. I talked about how computers are terrible and where the project is heading. As Wayne had been away from meetings for a few weeks, I began with a roundup of […]
The Story so Far: Part I, A Toy Dataset
In this somewhat long and long overdue post; I’ll attempt to explain the work done so far and an overview of the many issues encountered along the way and an insight in to why doing science is much harder than it ought to be. This post got a little longer than anticipated, so I’ve sharded […]
Exit codes, core dumps, `set -e` and `expr`
The kernels on our cluster clients have recently been updated after I inadvertently stumbled across an old1 kernel bug that caused erratic behaviour when NFS tries to open a directory containing many files that are being written to simultaneously (more on which is another post in itself really, as usual). The update seems to have […]
First Post
Having spent quite some time ruminating over the contents of this inaugural blog post to a point beyond that of analysis paralysis, I have managed to avoid writing entirely. Thus I’ll remove this pedestal of preclusion and begin with an uninspiringly titled First Post. Hello, I’m Sam Nicholls; one of the latest PhD students to […]