Mike L. Smith

I’m a bioinformatician working at EMBL Heidelberg as part of the German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure (de.NBI).

I mostly contribute code to, and maintain packages within, the Bioconductor project.

Welcome

Solving httr, cURL, and SSL problems on Ubuntu 20.04

A client side fix for SSL issues with httr and Ensembl

Exploring R Reference Counting

One of the major changes in R 4.0.0 is the use of reference counting to keep track of objects in memory. Here we explore how that might benefit users.

BiocStyle updates for mobile screens

Until recently BiocStyle didn’t render particularly nicely on narrow screens. We detail some improvements.

Github Workflows and Windows Line Endings

Workflows executed via Github Actions are a great way to automate checking changes you make to an R package as you get access to all three major platforms (W...

Obtaining chromosome lengths in Bioconductor

The following question was asked in the Bioconductor slack channel