On a recent west coast speaking junket where I spoke at OSU, OHSU, and VanBUG (Brown PNW '15!), I put together a new talk that tried to connect our past work on scaling metagenome assembly with our future work on driving data sharing and data integration. As you can maybe …
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I'm returning from a small, excellent meeting on "Open Source, Open Science", held at the Center for Open Science in Charlottesville, VA. We'll post a brief meeting report soon, but I wanted to share my particular highlights --
First, I got a chance to really dig into what the Center for …
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Two weeks ago, I ran a workshop at UC Davis on mRNAseq analysis for semi-model organisms, which focused on building new gene models ab initio -- with a reference genome. This was a milestone for me - the first time I taught a workshop at UC Davis as a professor there! My …
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I've been putting together a streaming API for khmer that would let us use generators to do sequence analysis, and I'd be interested in thoughts on how to do it in a good Pythonic way.
Some background: a while back, Alex Jironkin asked us for high level APIs, which turned …
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A colleague who is starting their own computational lab just asked me for some advice on how to run software projects, and I wrote up the following. Comments welcome!
A brief summary of what we've converged on for our own needs is this:
everything's on github (you can have private …
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Michael R. Crusoe and I are throwing a sprint!
Somewhat in the vein of last year's mini-Hackathon, Michael and I and other members of the lab are going to focus in on reviewing contributions and closing issues on the khmer project for a 5 day period.
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