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| Title |
bioSyntax: syntax highlighting for computational biology
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Bioinformatics, August 2018
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12859-018-2315-y |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Artem Babaian, Anicet Ebou, Alyssa Fegen, Ho Yin Kam, German E. Novakovsky, Jasper Wong, Dylan Aïssi, Li Yao |
| Abstract |
Computational biology requires the reading and comprehension of biological data files. Plain-text formats such as SAM, VCF, GTF, PDB and FASTA, often contain critical information which is obfuscated by the data structure complexity. bioSyntax ( https://biosyntax.org/ ) is a freely available suite of biological syntax highlighting packages for vim, gedit, Sublime, VSCode, and less. bioSyntax improves the legibility of low-level biological data in the bioinformatics workspace. bioSyntax supports computational scientists in parsing and comprehending their data efficiently and thus can accelerate research output. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 28 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 9 | 32% |
| United States | 4 | 14% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 7% |
| Australia | 2 | 7% |
| Germany | 2 | 7% |
| Italy | 1 | 4% |
| Russia | 1 | 4% |
| Indonesia | 1 | 4% |
| India | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 5 | 18% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 18 | 64% |
| Members of the public | 9 | 32% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 4% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 50 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 50 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 12 | 24% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 9 | 18% |
| Student > Bachelor | 6 | 12% |
| Student > Master | 6 | 12% |
| Other | 4 | 8% |
| Other | 5 | 10% |
| Unknown | 8 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 13 | 26% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 12 | 24% |
| Computer Science | 8 | 16% |
| Linguistics | 2 | 4% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 3 | 6% |
| Unknown | 11 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 18. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 November 2022.
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#2,084,142
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#464
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#41,851
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#5
of 91 outputs
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