It may not surprise peope to learn that I was one of the reviewers on the MEGAHIT metagenome assembly paper... which is now published!.
Below is my review, edited to remove all of the stuff they addressed in their revision.
Please also see our first blog post on MEGAHIT and …
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Today at 3pm EST, the Moore Data Driven Discovery Investigators will be answering questions on reddit, in the science "ask me anything (AMA)" series. This is an opportunity to ask us anything you want about our research, data-driven discovery more generally, or ...well, you tell us!
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I participated in my second Balti and Bioinformatics on Wednesday - unlike the first one, which ended with only slightly sketchy Indian food in Birmingham, this one was entirely online. The technology worked really well and I think this is a great way to do talks!
For those that haven't seen …
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A while back, someone else's graduate student asked me (slightly edited to protect the innocent :) --
I already have two independent sets of de novo transcriptome assemblies and annotations of the NGS data [...] 1) from the company who did the sequencing and analysis, and 2) from our pipeline here. It would …read more
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On December 10th, 2014, I was formally awarded tenure at UC Davis, where I will start as an Associate Professor in the School of Veterinary Medicine on January 5th, 2015. In my research statement for my job application, I wrote:
Open science and scientific reproducibility: I am a strong advocate …read more
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Here are three movies that I can recommend, starting with the best.
Jiro Dreams of Sushi - a great movie about the pursuit of perfection, one slice of fish at a time. Truly inspiring. Software engineers and scientists will recognize and identify with Jiro's aspirations.
The Angels' Share - a fun, laid …
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I was a reviewer on Determining the quality and complexity of next-generation sequencing data without a reference genome by Anvar et al., PDF here. Here is the top bit of my review.
One interesting side note - the authors originally named their tool kMer and I complained about it in my …
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