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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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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Dear <chairs>,
I am resigning my Assistant Professor position at Michigan State University effective January 2nd, 2015.
Sincerely,
CTB.
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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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