Reply to post: Re: Fixing the symptom…

Chemists bitten by Python scripts: How different OSes produced different results during test number-crunching

Korev Silver badge
Boffin

Re: Fixing the symptom…

Here each chunk of data was stored in two files that the script needed to match and didn't because of the way that each OS returned the list of files to Python. If the instrument put the lot into HDF5 then it'd probably be better.

The output from Ilumnina sequencers is actually stored in the same way, each samples' data is in a pair of "fastq" files.

POST COMMENT House rules

Not a member of The Register? Create a new account here.

  • Enter your comment

  • Add an icon

Anonymous cowards cannot choose their icon