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A wiki for computers, biology, bioinformatics and other random stuff

Update 8th November 2011

Added search bar for anonymous users
Allowed comments to be added on wiki pages

Motive 2.0

This wiki serves two purposes:

As a central repository for all things related to the work of the authors (and some personal interests)
As a learning tool for the authors (because the best way to learn is to try to teach)

Historically, the wiki served as a dump for me; hence there are a lot of poorly written articles. However, recently (5th January 2011) the user base has doubled (welcome Mo!) and I will attempt to write better articles and slowly improve my older posts. If something isn't clear, I probably wrote the article, so you can email for more information.

For a list of all pages available to guests see http://davetang.org/wiki/tiki-listpages.php

I also keep track of new ideas and analyses I've done on my blog

. And here's my home page

.

Enjoy your stay,

Dave

Quote:

“As I stared at the books, I suddenly understood that I didn’t know a hell of a lot about anything. What it was that seemed to move me then was that learning was important… I vowed, right then, to learn something new every day. It was a deep revelation, something I felt throughout my whole self.” --Amiri Baraka

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The main portals

Computers

Unix/Linux, Perl, MySQL, Programming, and others

Bioinformatics

Genomics, transcriptomics, high throughput sequencing and molecular evolution.

Biology

Genomics, transcriptomics, epigenetics and experimental techniques.

Personal

Psychology, philosophy and other nerdy stuff

Random

For everything else that doesn't fit in the above categories.

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Wiki Help
Plugin Help

Wiki Syntax

For more information, please see Wiki Page Editor and Wiki Syntax

Wiki Syntax
Bold text __text__
Italic text 2 single quotes ('). '"text"'
Underlined text ===text===
Colored text ~~#FFEE33:text~~ or ~~yellow:text~~. Will display using the indicated HTML color or color name. Color name can contain two colors separated by a comma. In this case, the first color would be the foreground and the second one the background.
Deleted text 2 dashes "-". --text--
Headings !heading1, !!heading2, !!!heading3
Show/Hide !+, !!- show/hide heading section. + (shown) or - (hidden) by default.
Autonumbered Headings !#, !!#, !+#, !-# ...
Table of contents {toc}, {maketoc} prints out a table of contents for the current page based on structures (toc) or ! headings (maketoc). Common optional parameters for maketoc are: title\|maxdepth\|levels\|nums, and for toc are: order\|showdesc\|shownum\|structId\|maxdepth\|pagename.
Horizontal rule ----
Text box ^Box content^
Centered text ::text::
Dynamic variables %Name% Inserts an editable variable
External links use square brackets for an external link: [URL], [URL\|link_description],[URL\|link_description\|relation] or [URL\|description\|relation\|nocache] (that last prevents the local Wiki from caching the linked page; relation can be used to insert rel attribute for the link - useful e.g. for shadowbox). For an external Wiki, use ExternalWikiName:PageName or ((External Wiki Name: Page Name))
Square Brackets Use [[foo] to show [foo].
Wiki References ((page)) or ((page\|description)) for wiki references
Lists * for bullet lists, # for numbered lists, ;Word:definition for definiton lists
Indentation +, ++ Creates an indentation for each plus (useful in list to continue at the same level)
Tables \|\| row1-col1 \| row1-col2 \| row1-col3 row2-col1 \| row2-col2 \| row2-col3 \|\|
Title bar -=Title=-
Monospace font -+Code sample+-
Line break %%% (very useful especially in tables)
Multi-page pages Use ...page... to separate pages
Non parsed sections ~np~ data ~/np~ Prevents wiki parsing of the enclosed data.
Preformated sections ~pp~ data ~/pp~ Displays preformated text/code; no Wiki processing is done inside these sections (as with np), and the spacing is fixed (no word wrapping is done). ~pre~ data ~/pre~ also displayes preformatted text with fixed spacing, but wiki processing still occurs on the text.
Comments ~tc~ Tiki Comment ~/tc~ makes a Tiki comment. It will be completely removed from the display, but saved in the file for future reference. ~hc~ HTML Comment ~/hc~ makes an HTML comment. It will be inserted as a comment in the output HTML; these are not normally displayed in browsers, but can be seen using "View Source" or similar.
Direction {r2l}, {l2r}, {rm}, {lm}Insert resp. right-to-left and left-to-right text direction DIV (up to end of text) and markers for langages as arabic or hebrew.
Special characters ~hs~ hard space, ~c~ ©, ~amp~ &, ~lt~ <, ~gt~ >, ~ldq~ “, ~rdq~ ”, ~lsq~ ‘, ~rsq~ ’, ~--~ —, ~bs~ \, numeric between ~ for html numeric characters entity

Because the Wiki paragraph formatting feature is off, each line will be presented as you write it. This means that if you want paragraphs to be wrapped properly, a paragraph should be all together on one line.

Plugins

Note that plugin arguments can be enclosed with double quotes ("); this allows them to contain , or = or >.
More help here

Filter:

Description
Article Includes an article's content within the page.
Article List Inserts a list of articles in the page.
Author Color codes parts of the page like 'Track changes' in Office programs.
Bliptv Display a Blip.tv video
Box Insert theme-styled box on wiki page
Center Centers the plugin content in the wiki page
Code Displays a snippet of code
Div Insert a division block, span, blockquote or other text formatting on wiki page.
Definition List Creates a definition list
Fade Displays a label. On click, the block of content will fade in and fade out.
Fancy List Creates a fancy-looking list
Fancy Table Displays the data using the Tikiwiki odd/even table style
File Displays a link to a file (either from the file gallery or an attachment to a wiki page) and can display an image attachment. For more than one file from file galleries, or more optional information shown from the files, use the plugin FILES instead
Files Displays a list of files from a file gallery
Flash video Displays a Flash (.swf) file in the wiki page
Google Analytics Add the tracking code for Google Analytics.
googlemap Displays a Google map
Group Display wiki text if user is in one of listed groups
Group List List all groups or just groups that include a certain group
Group Stats Displays the percentage of total users that are members of groups
HTML Include literal HTML in a Wiki page
Image Display images
Include Include a page's content.
Invite Invite an email in groups.
Kaltura video Displays a KALTURA video on the wiki page
Mail Directly mail other users or groups
Mediaplayer Simple mp3 or flv Player
Mini Quiz Displays a miniquiz
Insert Module Displays a module inline in a wiki page. More parameters can be added, not supported by User Interface.
Mouseover Create a mouseover feature on some text
Object Hits Displays object hit info by object and days
Quote Quote text by surrounding the text with a box, like the [QUOTE] BBCode
Remarks Box Displays a comment, tip, note or warning box
RSS Feed Inserts an RSS feed output.
Sort Sorts the plugin content in the wiki page
Split Split a page into rows and columns
Subscript Displays text in subscript.
Superscript Displays text in superscript (exponent).
Tabs Display page content in a set of tabs
Thumbnail Displays the thumbnail for an image
Tracker Displays an input form for tracker submit
Tracker Comments Displays the number of tracker comments
Tracker Filter Filters the items of a tracker, fields are indicated with numeric ids.
Tracker Item Field Displays the value of a tracker item field or the wiki text if the value of the field is set or has a value(if itemId not specified, use the itemId of the url or the user tracker).
Tracker List Displays the output of a tracker content, fields are indicated with numeric ids.
Tracker Prefill Displays a button to link to a page with a tracker plugin with prefilled tracker fields.
Tracker Stats Displays some stat of a tracker content, fields are indicated with numeric ids.
Tracker Timeline Timeline view of a tracker, can be used to display event schedules or gantt charts.
Transclusion Includes the content of a wiki page and replaces values in the body of the included page. All additional parameters will be replaced. For example %%%title%%% will be replaced with the parameter title in the plugin.
Userlink function Makes a link to the user information page
Vimeo Display a Vimeo video
Vote Displays some stat of a tracker content, fields are indicated with numeric ids.
Youtube Display youtube video
Thumbnail Displays the thumbnail for an image

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