This past weekend, I accepted an offer to join UC Davis as an Associate Professor of Genetics in the Department of Population Health and Reproduction, in the School of Veterinary Medicine. The appointment is still pending tenure review, but I expect to join Davis whether or not they give me …
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The fifth annual Analyzing Next Generation Sequencing Data workshop just finished - #ngs2014. As usual the schedule and all of the materials are openly available.
tl; dr? Good stuff.
We've been running this thing since 2010, and we now have almost 120 alumni (5 classes of roughly 24 students each). The …
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Here are my talk notes for the Data Driven Discovery grant competition ("cage match" round). Talk slides are on slideshare You can see my full proposal here as well.
Hello, my name is Titus Brown, and I'm at Michigan State University where I run a biology group whose motto is …
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Our lab is part of the ongoing online conversation about how to properly credit software and algorithms; as is my inclination, we're Just Trying Stuff (TM) to see what works. Here's an update on our latest efforts!
A while back (with release 1.0 of khmer) we added a CITATION …
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Note to all: this is satire... As Marcia McNutt says below, please see Science Magazine's Contributors FAQ for more detailed information.
Recently I had some conversations with Science Magazine about preprints, and when they're counted as double publication (see: Ingelfinger Rule). Now, Science has an enlightened preprint policy:
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In September, I will be visiting the NIH to "chart the next 5 years of data science at the NIH." This meeting will use an open space approach, and we were asked to provide some suggested topics. Here are five topics that I suggested, and one that Jeramia Ory suggested …
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Create a github repository named something like '2014-paper-xxxx'. Ask me for name suggestions.
In that github repo, do the following:
Write a Makefile or some other automated way of generating all results from data - see
https://github.com/ged-lab/2013-khmer-counting/blob/master/pipeline/Makefile
or ask Camille (@camille_codon) what she …
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