Psst! I've posted some details about my notebook setup here.

Super simple reverse-complement aware DNA sequence search with rcgrep

There are many wonderfully elegant and efficient tools for performing all sorts of exact and inexact searches on large collections of DNA sequences. Experience has shown, however, that these tools are usually very rigid with respect to their assumptions about input data. If input files are compressed in a certain way, or stored in a non-standard format, there is usually …

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