Blog posts

2022

Resources to learn more about efficient large-scale computing skills

less than 1 minute read

Published: January 30, 2022

This page has a long list of resources to learn about efficient large-scale computing.

生物情報科学科での学部教育

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Published: January 30, 2022

私は，生物情報科学という，生物学と情報科学の融合分野について，学部生の段階で先進的な教育を受ける機会に恵まれました。私が在籍したときは，学年の学生人数は10人程度，一方で教授陣も約10人ほどと，学生定数：教員数がほぼ 1:1 というとても恵まれた環境で，最先端の学問分野を指導していただくことができました。

2021

Stanford での大学院生活・大学院出願準備に関するリソース

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Published: March 12, 2021

This post is written in Japanese. Yosuke explains his life at Stanford.

News (2021)

4 minute read

Published: January 01, 2021

Here are the exciting moments in 2021! We have other news posts.

2020

Notes on Apache Columnar format

2 minute read

Published: November 10, 2020

There are several column-oriented data formats. To store and query large table files, we explor those modern technologies. Here, I have some snippets.

高校生への科学アウトリーチ活動

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Published: August 04, 2020

Occasionally, Yosuke performs science outreach talks. This post explains an example of such activities targeted for Japanese high schoolers.

Egronomics

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Published: July 13, 2020

Kinesis Advantageous 2 keyboard.

Using tmux on mac

less than 1 minute read

Published: July 03, 2020

Terminal multiplexer software, such as tmux and screen, is a useful tool. When using tmux on mac, I encountered the following error.

GWAS and genetic analyses with PLINK2 and pgenlibr

6 minute read

Published: July 02, 2020

PLINK is a well-established software for genetic analysis. In many projects, we use plink2 for genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and other genetic analyses using the raw genotype matrix.

Working with very small values in R

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Published: July 02, 2020

When you’re working on extremely small floating numbers in R (such as when you have strong p-values), there are a few options.

船井情報科学振興財団による Funai Overseas Scholarship

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Published: June 25, 2020

This post is written in Japanese. Yosuke explains his fellowship support from the Funai Foundation for Information Technology, which supports Japanese citizens and permanent residents. You may have some luck with DeepL translator.

Using Bundler via Docker on mac

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Published: June 20, 2020

Ruby bundler is a convenient tool to manage the Ruby environments. This website, for example, is built with Jekyll.

figshare API

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Published: May 22, 2020

Figshare is a data hosting service to make the scientific results available. While they have a nice web interface to upload your files, you sometimes want to upload a large file (> 5GB, for example). For that purpose, they provide an API access. Here is my example on how to use their API.