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So, under Sqlite2, if I want to update a database''s schema, I have to dump the DB, modify the table''s structure, then go and modify EVERY insert statement. The insert statements look like (from memory): INSERT INTO my_table VALUES (''some_id'', ''some_val'', '''', '''', '''', ''some_other

Dear list, I wish to plot chromatin precipitation data: I would like to have a rectangles (x:end-start, y:peak) but I do not have an idea how to define x (in terms of qplot syntax) and to choose the correct geom. mydata is a subset of a larger file. > mydata chrom start end peak 1 chr11 5291000 5291926 8 2 chr11 10988025 10988526 7 3 chr11 11767950 11768676 8 4

Greetings, I am new to R, but trying to put in the time to learn. I have read the R manual and several other introductory texts; however, there is nothing like actually putting it into practice. So here is my problem, and its more of a learning exercise for myself than anything else, but I'm stuck and getting extremely frustrated that I can't figure it out. I'm trying to make a

Hi, I was wondering I'm going about this in the correct way. I need to test if there are coding sequences or exons in hg19 which match a string of 100bp "D" i.e. [A,G or T]. However I'm getting a strange result. I get a hit on chr7, using the 100bp search however when I search with 60bp sequence of "D" I don't get any hits. library("BSgenome")