We often want to calculate Pearson correlation between different datasets, for example, we have used it to identify the hosts of different phages. Often, we want to calculate Pearson on really large matrices, and so our usual solution is to use crappy code and be patient!

However, recently Daniel Jones released turbocor, a fast, rust-based implementation, of pairwise Pearson correlations, and so we are intrigued to work with it. Here is a brief guide to making correlations using turbocor.