Brian O'Shea (a physics prof at Michigan State) asked me the following, and I thought I'd post it on my blog to get a broader set of responses. I know the answer is "Python 3", but I would appreciate specific thoughts from people with experience either with the specific packages …
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A few months ago, I wrote a short description of how we make our papers replicable in the lab. One problem with this process is that for complex pipelines, it's not always obvious how to connect a number in the paper to the steps in the pipeline that produced it …
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As we think about the next few years of khmer development, it is helpful to explore what khmer is, and what our goals for khmer development are. This can provide guiding principles for development, refactoring, extension, funding requests, and collaborations.
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Here's an excerpt from an e-mail to a student whose committee I'm on; they were asking me about a comment their advisor had made that they shouldn't put a result in a paper because "It'll confuse the reviewer."
One thing to keep in mind is that communicating the results _is_ …read more
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A colleague just e-mailed me to ask me how I felt about journal impact factor being such a big part of the Academic Ranking of World Universities - they say that 20% of the ranking weight comes from # of papers published in Nature and Science. So what do I think?
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Sean Eddy wrote an interesting blog post on how scripting is something every biologist should learn to do. This spurred a few discussions on Twitter and elsewhere, most of which devolved into the usual arguments about what, precisely, biologists should be taught.
I always find these discussions not merely predictable …
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Since being chosen as a Moore Foundation Data Driven Discovery Investigator, I've been putting together the paperwork at UC Davis to actually receive the money. Part of that is putting together a budget and a Statement of Work to help guide the conversation between me, Davis, and the Moore Foundation …
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