Useful productivity tools for bioinformaticians
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Pappu ★ 2.1k

I am wondering which productivity tools you use as a bioinformatician to improve the productivity of day to day work. For example using git, nextflow etc.

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You mean aside from the coffee-maker?

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I label my bioinformatics calendar as "before Snakemake" and "after Snakemake"

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"Other workflow managers are available".

But yeah. Use a workflow manager

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I would highly recommend this book "wicked cool shell scripts" https://nostarch.com/wicked2 . One of my favorites from the book is the command line notepad . Most times you are on the terminal and want to write a quick note without moving, it can be easily done with the note shell script. note . The notes are saved to the file .Remember in the home. I twicked it by adding git and date and timestamps to notes. The book is littered with Gems.

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GenoMax 147k

Basic unix commands cut/paste/sort/uniq/sed. Never designed for bioinformatics but very useful nonetheless.

For those that use windows as desktop OS notepad++ and MobaXterm.

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Joe 21k

I second ncdu.

I also like:

I have a lot of sysadminy stuff rather than pure productivity per se. Lots of my productivity is just stuff in dotfiles.

Undoubtedly loads more I forget now.

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an obvious one: awk ! :)

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ncdu for checking disk space used and number of files: https://linux.die.net/man/1/ncdu

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gb ★ 2.2k

https://atom.io/packages/split-diff And then using it for "normal" non code text files

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Asana, Trello are good ones

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