Hi..I would like to apply random sampling technique for the distribution of genes in a collection of bacterial samples. I would like to test finally 250 samples out of 500. Please suggest me a suitable web-server based tool for generating the random numbers. Also is there a way to test if the generated numbers are random? Thank you.
If you want a simple online tool here is one
https://www.random.org/integers/
but I do not know how truly random they are. You may try few sets.
It is not very difficult to generate reasonably good random numbers, especially if their cycle is supposed to be less than 5million or so and you have a good seed (time of day?).
Try the Merissein twister method, for which I believe there are implementations in most/all languages. To test for randomness, there are also standard tests.
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