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On 01/26/07 13:37, Isaac Ben wrote:
> On 1/26/07, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 10:47:50 -0700, Isaac Ben
>> <ib.zero@gmail.com> wrote:
[snip]
>
> I plan on accessing the data with postgres via python and R. The
> main reason for putting the data in postgres is that postgres
> handles large data sets well and it will allow me to pull subsets
> easily if slowly.
I wonder if sed/grep/awk (or, just perl) could rapidly do your row
and column pre-filtering?
>> If you do put this in postgres, it seems the two most natural
>> things are to use arrays to store the dimension values or to
>> have table with a key of the gene and the dimension and have
>> another column with the value of that dimension for that gene.
>
> Yeah, I received a tip from someone regarding the use of arrays,
> and I think that I will be using that. Thanks for the tips.
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