Free Data Munging for Non-Programming Biologists Tutorial

Have you ever renamed 768 files? Merged the content from 96 files into a spreadsheet? Filtered 100 l
ines out of a 20,000-line file?Have you ever done these things by hand?Disciples of laziness–one of the three Perl programmer’s virtues–know that you should never repeat anything five times, let alone 768. It dismayed me to learn that biologists do this kind of thing all the time.On the Origin of Scripts: The ProblemExperimental biologists increasingly face large sets of large fil 
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