Yesterday I gave my third keynote address ever, at the Australasian Genomics Technology Association's annual meeting in Melbourne (talk slides here). On my personal scale of talks, it was a 7 or 8 out of 10: I gave it a lot of energy, and I think the main messages got …
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A few weeks back, Nick Loman (via Manoj Samanta) brought MEGAHIT to our attention on Twitter. MEGAHIT promised "an ultra-fast single-node solution for large and complex metagenome assembly" and they provided a preprint and some open source software. This is a topic near and dear to my heart (see Pell …
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I would like to build a community site. Or, more precisely, I would like to recognize, collect, and collate information from an already existing but rather diffuse community.
The focus of the community will be academic data science, or "data driven discovery". This is spurred largely by the recent selection …
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I am very, very happy to announce that I have been selected to be one of the fourteen Moore Data Driven Discovery Investigators.
This is a signal investment by the Moore Foundation into the burgeoning area of data-intensive science, and it is quite a career booster. It will provide my …
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Note: the source data for this is available on github at https://github.com/ctb/dddi
Today, the Moore Foundation announced that they have selected fourteen Moore Data Driven Discovery Investigators.
In reverse alphabetical order, they are:
Dr. Ethan White, University of Florida
Proposal: Data-intensive forecasting and prediction for ecological …
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At the NIH ADDS meeting, we had several breakout sessions. Michelle Dunn and I led the training session. For this breakout, we had the following agenda:
First, build "sticky-note clouds", with one sticky-note cloud with notes for each of the following topics:
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In Extracting shotgun reads based on coverage in the data set, we showed how to get a read coverage spectrum for a shotgun data set. This is a useful diagnostic tool that can be used to estimate total genome size, average coverage, and repetitive content.
Uses for this recipe include …
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