Big Data Analysis

There's a fantastic series made possible by the University of California, Davis Genome Center, and David Coil on how to access, parse, and analyze big data sequences.

How to display content, and basic grep commands

In summary:

less fileNamePath

• used to display file

grep item fileNamePath

• searches and displays item at file

grep -c item fileNamePath

• returns number of occurrences item exists at file

How to parse data with grep

In summary:

grep item originalFilePath > newFilePath

• create a new file that contains data with the item parsed

grep -v item originalFilePath > newFilePath

• create a new file containing everything except data with the item parsed

How to analyse data

In summary:

• find occurrences of item of interest
• find total number of occurences

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