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Published inOct 2023
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ISBN-139781837634279
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Dan MacLean
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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Creating websites from collections of Quarto documents

Pandoc is a versatile tool that can convert documents between many different formats, including Markdown, HTML, LaTeX, and PDF. It can be used to convert a collection of Markdown documents into a static website. The basic workflow is to write the content in Markdown files, use Pandoc to convert the Markdown files to HTML files, and then serve the HTML files using a web server. Quarto enables this workflow by providing style templates, a series of extra markup, and rendering configurations that simplify the render through Pandoc.

The produced website can be hosted like any other. Of particular, but perhaps not obvious, utility for bioinformaticians is GitHub, which can be used as a hosting platform for the static website. GitHub allows users to create a repository to store the rendered sites, and then use GitHub Pages to host the static website. GitHub Pages is a free service that can host static websites that are built from...

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R Bioinformatics Cookbook - Second Edition
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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