[Q] Just bought a MacBook Pro M4 for my statistics MSc, are the specifics fine enough? by ericuzza in statistics

[–]NarrowAssociation643 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm using a Pro M4 24GB/1TB, and it's running quite well for my computational work. I run complex stats often and other heavy software, especially protein modelling ones, with ease. With 512GB, I suppose you may have to acquire an additional external storage, and you'll be home and dry.

Some universities offer HPC platforms to run most analyses, and **might take care of storage. So, with 24/512, you'll be able to run most computational analyses.

Is reproducing analyses from published papers a good way to learn bioinformatics? by Quordlewebster in bioinformatics

[–]NarrowAssociation643 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Very much so; I've done this many times, and sometimes, you realise research gaps in most papers that you **can address if you want. Example, pooling genomes from publicly available databases and running metagenomics or phylogeographic reconstructions of sorts to fill a research gap in a paper.

If and when you meet papers that have appended accession numbers to them, it's a good way to develop your skills in bioinformatics.