I need to figure out a way to complete this coding and I am very lost.
Please help. Here are the parameters.
As usual, the day and a life of a
bioinformatician calls for making the large task small. We have data from the
Unigene database from six different mammals, which the company you are working
for needs data about tissue expression for a given gene "on Demand". Of course
one could open the directory and look for the gene file, and then go through to
view the tissue expression, but this would become tedious very quickly.
You are to write a program with command line flags. If you need to see how
to use command line flags see the solutions for assignment #2 and assignment #3
The data for these six organisms can can be found here: (DO NOT COPY THESE
FILES!, DO NOT COPY THESE FILES). So if you are reading this do not copy these
files, b/c they take up too much room on the server.
Hmm .. this looks a lot like a homework assignment.
How far have you got on this? We'll be glad to help you if you're stuck on an issue with Perl syntax, but we can't and won't do your homework for you.
Alex / talexb / Toronto
"Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds
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I am a bioinformatician and that does look like a homework assignment to me too. I'd love to be given a brief that specific. I too am more than happy to help but I'm not altruistic enough to try and wade my way through that giant post. If you would care to summarise it for me I'll help.
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Joe, you need to learn etiquette of forum use. People in forums won't do your homework and they certainly won't read giant pieces of text like that. Could you not have taken the trouble to edit it? For example, we do not have to know the 41 different types of tissue to understand the problem.
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Hmm, I echo the sentiments of the other responders here. Might I suggest you check out: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html - little bit lengthy (ironically), but gives some excellent advice on how to ask a question, and maybe even get somebody to do your homework for you. | [reply] |
The reason you and my wife are "overwhelmed" is that you TALK TOO MUCH!!! If I wasted my time reading your dense post I would be overwhelmed too.
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And the ability to break problem into solvable parts is the soul of engineering. The writer of the original post obviously completely lacks this skill and that is the reason such HOMEWORK assignments are assigned. To JPG73 find another line of study ... journalism maybe ... plagiarism and lack of critical thinking ability seems to be acceptable in that field if not encouraged. :P
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