Oct 5, 2010 — Automated Reminder Emails and Text Messages with Matlab and Batch — I’ve worked about 35 hours in the past four days putting together an automated reminder system for our lab. I basically have a batch script working with two matlab scripts, GMail calendars, and various data files to send automatic email... Read more

Oct 2, 2010 — Convert Military Time to User Friendly String — I want to share this, because it could be useful in many contexts. I am working on a script that downloads information from a Google Calendar, and automatically sends reminder emails based on a user specified time. Given that the... Read more

Sep 11, 2010 — Get rid of carriage returns using tr — Kristin recently had a script that, for some mysterious reason, was in Windows format! (the error output obviously indicated the presence of carriage returns!). In my troubleshooting, this was the command that fixed it! tr -d ‘\15\32’ fixed_script.sh Read more

Aug 24, 2010 — Plink_View (Plink_View.m) Alpha Release! — When doing any sort of genetic analysis, we use a program called Plink to read in subject data from a .ped/.map file, and help us pull the SNPs that we are interested in. Other variables in Plink include individual and... Read more