Data and Text Processing for Health and Life Sciences

This open access book is a step-by-step introduction on how shell scripting can help solve many of the data processing tasks that Health and Life specialists face everyday with minimal software dependencies. The examples presented in the book show how simple command line tools can be used and combin...

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Main Author: Couto, Francisco M. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 1137
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13845-5
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