Transparency, multiple devices, multiple operating systems, paper/electronic,… when we write documents, we often need to adjust to different constrains. This is the reason why I think that the dissociation between the information and the presentation of the said information is an important step that allows you on the long run to become more efficient. This is clearly has no immediate benefit, but on the long I really started to see the advantage. Read more

How do you manage efficiently multiples jobs with modern computer cores ? This is a real problem that had me stuck for a while. I am working on a framework to analyze next generation sequencing data, consequently I have numerous files to manages, differents types of data that have to undergo a specific analysis. On the other hand, I have a few cores (24), some RAM (32Go) and decent hard drives. Let’s combine everything together so that many files can be analyzed on multiple cores at the same time. Of note, I am mostly working with bacterial genomes, so my computing times in this respect might seem light with compared to human genome.. A good example (not too simple, not too complex ?) would be, how do I convert 10 sam files to 10 bam files IN PARALLEL ? Read more