Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a special way to remotely control a computer. Like Secure Shell (SSH), a computer user can login to a remote machine on the network and execute commands and access files on the system. However, VNC displays the remote system’s desktop while SSH displays a terminal shell. It may be beneficial to learn more about VNC and similar technologies.

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OSX版BioEdit

BioEdit是一个Windows的程序,但在这里我要说的是苹果版!

BioEdit有很多的功能,当然基本上我是不会用的,然而其核心的功能,编辑序列比对,是没法回避的!因为根本找不到可以与之匹敌的软件!

神马!序列比对不都是clustalw, muscle, mafft这些软件生成完事吗?怎么还要编辑?!我只能说,年轻人,拿衣服啊。

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To my knowledge, BioEdit is the most comprehensive biological sequence alignment editor. Most of my labmates run this software using Parallels Desktop. For some of them, BioEdit is the only reason to install Parallels Desktop.

I need to edit my alignment recently, and install it in my iMac using Wine, which is a compatibility layer for running Windows applications on POSIX-compliant OS. Although it is famous in Linux community for many years, many OSX users never heard of it.

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Google Drive @ HKU

寻找一个好的网盘一直是个困扰我的问题,Dropbox非常好,但空间有限,大陆的各种网盘都是渣渣,本来试用了一下百度云,但度娘实在不争气,体验非常差。我后来找到了个比较好的方案,那就是gitlab,可以创建无限量的project,每个project有10G的空间,这比github出手大方多了。唯一不足是.git文件夹也是非常占空间的。

到HKU两年多,才发现HKU的邮箱自带无限量的google drive网盘。

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安装Amos

Amos是纯于比较难安装那种,因为依赖关系比较复杂。

首先编译需要qt4-devboost graph toolkit

sudo apt-get install libqt4-dev
sudo apt-get install libboost-graph-dev

再者是perl模块:

sudo cpan -i DBI
sudo cpan -i Statistics::Descriptive

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auto-complete in ESS

Auto complete is good, it can save you times in typing and prevent typo sometimes. RStudio now supports function arguments in auto complete. ESS’s auto complete is more advance, it supports help page. We should use ‘ess-use-auto-complete’ to activate auto complete in ESS buffers. (setq ess-use-auto-complete t) The effect is quite amazing. Auto-complete extension is needed for ESS, we need to install the auto-complete extension and load it at Emacs startup.

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Guangchuang Yu

Bioinformatics Professor @ SMU

Bioinformatics Professor

Guangzhou