06 Jun 2016 | | bioinformatics, R
Here I will describe how to use the R package ggplot2 to draw a simple sampling map. ggplot is a terrific R package that is widely used to produce graphs and figures for scientific publications, as well as geographic maps.
17 Feb 2016 | | bioinformatics, python
Let’s say you’re beginning a new project on an organism you haven’t worked with before. You might be interested to find out how many studies have previously used this species, and how much of its genetic information is available on NCBI’s GenBank. You could jump on the NCBI website and do a search for the species and get a pretty rough idea of what’s available, but this could quickly become laborious and it would not be easy to quantify.
10 Feb 2016 | | bioinformatics, python
In this post I will describe how to draw a simple sampling map using python and the library “basemap”. The map produced by this code was published as Figure 1 in the following paper:
22 Nov 2015 | | bioinformatics, R
During this post I will detail the statistical and graphical steps (using the R programming language) for reproducing the results in: