1. On benchmarking: when should you publish a comparison of two data analysis pipelines?

    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 …
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  2. The post-apocalyptic world of binary containers

    The apocalypse is nigh. Soon, binary executables and containers in object stores will join the many Web-based pipelines and the several virtual machine images on the dystopic wasteland of "reproducible science."


    Anyway.

    I had a conversation a few weeks back with a senior colleague about container-based approaches (like Docker) wherein …

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  3. Letter of resignation


    Dear <chairs>,

    I am resigning my Assistant Professor position at Michigan State University effective January 2nd, 2015.

    Sincerely,

    CTB.


    Anticipated FAQ:

    • Why? I'm moving to UC Davis.
    • Do you have an employment contract with UC Davis?? Nope. But I'm starting there in January, anyway. Or that's the plan. And yes …
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