tl;dr? A while back I wrote that there are three uses of research software: replication, reproduction, and reuse. The world of computational science would be better off if people clearly delineated whether or not they wanted anyone else to reuse their software, and I think it's a massive mistake …
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At PyCon 2015, I had the pleasure of attending the Ally Skills Workshop, organized by @adainitiative (named after Ada Lovelace).
The workshop was a 3 hour strongly guided discussion centering around 4-6 person group discussion of short scenarios. There's a guide to running them here, although I personally would not …
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(The below issues are very much on my mind as I think about how to apply for another NIH grant to fund continued development on the khmer project.)
Imagine that we have a graph of novel functionality versus software engineering effort for a particular project, cast in the shape of …
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I'm at the PyCon 2015 sprints (day 2), and I took the opportunity to play around with Docker a bit.
First, I created a local docker container that contained an installed version of khmer. I ran a blank docker container:
docker run -it ubuntu
and then installed the khmer prereqs …
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I'm at the PyCon 2015 sprints (day 2), and I took the opportunity to play around with named pipes.
I was reminded of named pipes by Vince Buffalo in this great blog post, and since we at the khmer project are very interested in streaming, and named pipes fit well …
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Here are talk notes and links for my PyCon 2015 talk.
The talk slides are up on SlideShare.
You should definitely check out Mike Lin's great blog posts on "Blogging my genome".
I found SNPedia through this wonderful blog post on how to use 23andMe irresponsibly, on Slate …
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