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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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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