adhamKM

Extending ANGSD Summary Statistics

This project was a block course at the University of Copenhagen. The goal was to extend the open-source ANGSD program written in C++ to include summary statistics on NGS data. Personally, the point was to learn the basics of C++ in as little time as possible, and to see it applied correctly.

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* background figure is the analytical machine devised by Charles Babbage in 1840

I had no knowledge of low level programming (after a year and a half of pure Python and R) before starting this project. The program itself was written in a highly modular way to allow secure multithreading and chunking, and I had two months to learn C++, learn how the program works, its components and how they function and then modify it to make it work the way I want to without breaking it.I went through what amounted to 10 chapters of "The C++ Programming Language" book by Bjarne Stroustrup‎ to cover classes/objects, pointers, references, constructors and destructors and then I got to work. The project was finished successfuly and it allowed me to start learning assembly language, and computer systems on my own through CMU's book, "Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective" by Randal E. Bryant. More project details and documentation (along with the project report) here : https://github.com/Adhamkmopp/ANGSD



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