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Published inOct 2023
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Dan MacLean
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Dan MacLean

Professor Dan MacLean has a PhD in molecular biology from the University of Cambridge and gained postdoctoral experience in genomics and bioinformatics at Stanford University in California. Dan is now an honorary professor at the School of Computing Sciences at the University of East Anglia. He has worked in bioinformatics and plant pathogenomics, specializing in R and Bioconductor, and has developed analytical workflows in bioinformatics, genomics, genetics, image analysis, and proteomics at the Sainsbury Laboratory since 2006. Dan has developed and published software packages in R, Ruby, and Python, with over 100,000 downloads combined.
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Debugging and improving code with ChatGPT

ChatGPT is capable of debugging code due to its extensive training on programming-related text. It has acquired knowledge of common programming patterns and errors, allowing it to understand code snippets, identify potential issues, and provide suggestions or improvements. It can identify minor errors by highlighting syntax issues such as missing brackets, incorrect function calls, and invalid variable assignments. ChatGPT helps troubleshooting by asking clarifying questions to better understand the problem and guide developers toward the root cause, and can aid in code optimization by suggesting efficiency improvements, identifying performance bottlenecks, and proposing more optimized implementations. Lastly, the debugging process with ChatGPT can foster learning and exploration, enabling developers to discover new concepts, programming techniques, or functionalities of specific libraries or packages. In this recipe, we’ll walk through...

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Published in: Oct 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781837634279

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Dan MacLean

Professor Dan MacLean has a PhD in molecular biology from the University of Cambridge and gained postdoctoral experience in genomics and bioinformatics at Stanford University in California. Dan is now an honorary professor at the School of Computing Sciences at the University of East Anglia. He has worked in bioinformatics and plant pathogenomics, specializing in R and Bioconductor, and has developed analytical workflows in bioinformatics, genomics, genetics, image analysis, and proteomics at the Sainsbury Laboratory since 2006. Dan has developed and published software packages in R, Ruby, and Python, with over 100,000 downloads combined.
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