SCRIPTS IN RUBY PROGRAMMING FOR BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
1.3.1. Getinput.rb retrieves a line of keyboarded text.
1.4.1. Grow.rb simulates six generations of bacterial growth.
1.4.3. Grow2.rb uses explicit Ruby objects and statements.
1.5.1. Lowclass.rb provides syntax for user-created classes.
1.5.3. Noclass.rb requires an external Person class definition.
1.5.4. Person_class_file.rb, a class library for script no_class.rb.
2.7.1. Combo.rb parses an array into all possible ordered subarrays.
2.8.1. Hash.rb creates and displays key/value pairs for a Hash instance object.
2.8.4. Neohash.rb creates three hash instances for the Neoplasm Classification.
2.10.1. Glob.rb demonstrated the Dir class glob method.
2.10.3. Dirlist.rb lists the files in the current directory.
2.12.1. Time.rb measures the length of time for any process.
3.4.2. Mod1.rb defines and includes a simple module.
3.4.3. Mod2.rb calls a module with the scope operator.
3.4.4. Mod3.rb embeds a module within a class.
6.2.1. Readsome.rb reads the first 20 lines of the MRCONSO file.
6.3.2. Zipf.rb prints the number of occurrences of words in a string.
6.3.4. Zipf2.rb creates a Zipf distribution of the words in OMIM.
6.4.1. Snom_get.rb extracts SNOMED-CT terms from UMLS.
6.5.1. Disease.rb collects SNOMED-CT diseases from UMLS.
6.6.1. Neosdbm.rb creates three persistent database objects.
6.7.1. Sdbmget.rb retrieves data from persistent object.
7.3.1. Sentence.rb, a simple sentence parser.
7.6.1. Search.rb searches through any file for lines matching a Regex expression.
7.7.1. Pubemail.rb extracts e-mail addresses from a PubMed search.
8.3.1. Base64.rb encodes strings in Base64 notation.
8.4.1. Dircopy.rb copies files from one directory to another.
8.5.1. Dcm2jpg.rb converts a DICOM file into a jpeg file.
8.5.3. Dcmsplit.rb converts a DICOM file into a jpeg and a text file.
8.6.1. Jpeg_add.rb inserts textual information into a jpeg image.
9.2.1. Concord.rb creates a concordance.
9.3.1. Indexer.rb creates an index.
10.2.1. Haystack.rb performs a binary search on a file.
10.3.2. Tinysort.rb sorts the lines of a file.
10.3.4. Bigsort.rb sorts large files quickly.
10.4.1. Anatomy.rb extracts SQL data from the Functional Model of Anatomy.
10.5.2. Alldata.rb sums the census districts to yield the total U.S. population.
11.2.1. Scrubit.rb scrubs and deidentifies any input line.
12.2.2. Autocode.rb provides nomenclature terms and codes for an input sentence.
12.3.1. Fastcode.rb improves performance compared with aucode.rb.
12.4.3. Icd.rb collects ICD10AM codes from the UMLS Metathesaurus.
12.5.1. Seer.rb determines the occurrences in the U.S. of tumor types found in the SEER public-use data files.
13.5.1. Fibo.rb computes the first twenty elements of the Fibonacci series.
13.6.1. Mean.rb computes the mean from an array of numbers.
13.7.1. Std_dev.rb computes the standard deviation for an array of numbers.
13.8.1. Randtest.rb simulates 600,000 casts of the die.
13.10.1. Error.rb uses resampling to simulate runs of errors.
14.6.2. Thresh.rb divides a text file into two threshold files.
14.6.5. Threshrv.rb computes original file from two threshold files.
15.2.2. Neopull.rb searches a server file for a web client query.
15.3.1. Neosafe.rb improves the security of neopull.rb.
17.3.1. Biohack.rb, converts a gene sequence into a protein sequence.
18.14.2. Rdf3.rb extracts triples from an RDF document.
18.19.2. Jpg2b64 inserts a Base64 jpeg image into an RDF file.
19.2.2. Ancestor.rb determines the ancestor lineage for organisms.
19.2.4. Class_lineage.rb determines ancestral lineage.
19.3.1. Neoself.rb provides tag hierarchy for XML file.
20.5.1. Conflict.rb overrides a class assignment.
-Jules Berman tags: bioinformatics, biomedical informatics, medical informatics, Ruby, ruby language, Ruby programming, scripts
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