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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We are pleased to announce that the Laboratory for Data Intensive Biology at UC Davis has joined the Software Carpentry Foundation as an Affiliate Member for three years, starting in January 2015.
"We've been long-term supporters of Software Carpentry, and Affiliate status lets us support the Software Carpentry Foundation in …
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