Changing the number of authors displayed using natbib

It's often useful to truncate the number of authors displayed in bibliographies. Think of those endless genome papers. Equally journals can have rules about it. There are lots of questions about it in forums and after much searching I found an answer using our favorite bibtex style, natbib. This is taken from stackexchange. Basically you … Continue reading Changing the number of authors displayed using natbib

Going from a list of accession numbers to a formatted latex table

I just want to highlight two packages in R that really do something useful. mygene (https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/mygene.html) takes a list of accession numbers and gets back genbank records. This is something I'm always doing. There are probably lots of good ways of doing this. xtable (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/xtable/index.html) is a bit more unique. It can take an R … Continue reading Going from a list of accession numbers to a formatted latex table