So, how do I enjoy my first day of furlough? Go out for a nice ride. And then read up on some statistics. More specifically, I was browsing the The R Book and came across survival models. Such models are used to characterize time to events, where an event could be death of a patient […]
Predictive models – Implementation vs Specification
Benjamin Good recently asked about the existence of public repositories of predictive molecular signatures. From his description, he’s looking for platforms that are capable of deploying predictive models. The need for something like this is certainly not restricted to genomics – the QSAR field has been in need for this for many years. A few […]
Visual pairwise comparison of distributions
While analysing some data from a dose respons screen, run across multiple cell lines, I need to visualize summarize curve data in a pairwise fashion. Specifically, I wanted to compaure area under the curve (AUC) values for the curve fits for the same compound between every pair of cell line. Given that an AUC needs […]
Chunking lists in R
A common task for is to run database queries on gene symbols or compound identifiers. This involves constructing an SQL query as a string and sending that off to the database. In the case of the ROracle package, the query strings are limited to a 1000 (?) or so characters. This means that directly querying […]
New Versions of rcdk & rcdklibs
With the recent stable release of the CDK (1.3.12) and the inclusion of the new rendering classes, I was able to make a new release of the rcdk (3.1.1) and rcdklibs (1.3.11) packages that support cheminformatics in R. They’ve been pushed to CRAN and should be visible in a day or two. The new features […]