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

Aug 16, 2010 — "Send Brains" (send_brains.m) Alpha Release! — It’s a weekly duty in our lab to preprocess data and send out a brain image (with a lab logo) for each subject that has participated in our study. It used to be one of my weekly duties, and I... Read more

Aug 1, 2010 — Once and Forever — Vibrance and rapture, epiphany and sound Gummy and splendor, elegance and bound Constant in motion, mind in a whirl Responsibility of a woman, heart of a girl Glowing the night lamp, hard fall the eyes Gentacular hum of the heater... Read more