The visualization represented by Hans Rosling’s TED talk was very impressive. FlowingData provides a tutorial on making bubble chart in R. I prefer ggplot2 for graphics. [Read more...]

Gene Ontology is the de facto standard for annotation of gene products. It has been widely used in biological data mining, and I believe it will play more central role in the future. Publications mentioning GO was collected and deposited in GO ftp, and can be accessed (ftp://ftp.geneontology.... [Read more...]

I started to develop GOSemSim package two years ago when I was not quite familiar with R. I am very happy to see that someone use it and found it helpful. I try to learn S4 and redesign GOSemSim with S4 classes and methods in the pass two weeks, and ... [Read more...]

I try to compile the source code of R 2.12 on CentOS, but it throw an error when trying to install *cluster*. * installing *source* package ‘cluster’ ... Read More: 3800 Words Totally [Read more...]

hyperGTest compute Hypergeomtric p-values for over or under-representation of each GO term in the specified category among the specified gene set. *geneSample* was used as an example. Read More: 1329 Words Totally [Read more...]

R currently supports two internal OOP systems (S3 and S4), and several others as add-on packages, such as R.oo, and OOP. S3 is easy to use but not reliable enough for large software projects. The emphasis of the S3 system was on generic functions and polymorphism. It’s a ... [Read more...]

It is very common to cluster genes based on their expression profiles, and also very common to integrate Gene Ontology to observe the distribution of biological processes, molecular functions and cellular components for a given gene list. But, what if the two in combination? The Gene Ontology distributions across a ... [Read more...]

Tal Galili’s blog post mentioned that WP-Syntax can highlight R codes. I downloaded the modified version of WP-Syntax in his blog site. The plugin throw an error when activated. I did not try the original version hosted in Wordpress. I found that WP-CodeBox use GeShi for syntax highlighting as ... [Read more...]