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When analyzing data, statistics is never far off. In fact, statistics is a structured approach to data analysis. Such a structured approach becomes especially important when analyzing the multiple simultaneous experiments that are characteristic of genomics. One aspect of data analysis rarely mentioned is that we can only compute with data stored in a suitable format. The emphasis on human-readable text in Unix is already very helpful, but as we shall see, next to text, tables are the second great idea in digital data storage.
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Haubold, B., Börsch-Haubold, A. (2023). Interrogating and Storing Data. In: Bioinformatics for Evolutionary Biologists. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20414-2_14
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