These are the talk notes for my opening talk at the 2014 Bioinformatics Open Source Conference.
Normally my talk notes aren't quite so extensive, but for some reason I thought it would be a good idea to give an "interesting" talk, so my talk title was "A History of Bioinformatics …
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I'm at the 2014 Marine Microbes Gordon Conference right now, and at the end of my talk, I brought up the point that the function of most genes is unknown. It's not a controversial point in any community that does environmental sequencing, but I feel it should be mentioned at …
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We just released khmer v1.1, a minor version update from khmer v1.0.1 (minor version update: 220 commits, 370 files changed).
Cancel that -- _I_ just released khmer, because I'm the release manager for v1.1!
As part of an effort to find holes in our documentation, "surface" any …
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Eli Kintisch (@elikint) just wrote a very nice article on "Sharing in Science" for Science Careers; his article contained quotes from my MSU colleague Ian Dworkin as well as from me.
When Eli sent me an e-mail with some questions about open science, I responded at some length (hey, I …
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As part of the 2-day Mozilla Science Labs hackathon in late July, the khmer project will be providing a "mentored open source contributathon" experience. This will provide an opportunity for people interested in trying out our instance of the "github flow" model, in which contributions are submitted for review using …
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(or, What I Did For One Day Of My Summer Vacation.)
tl;dr? I played around with building a CountMin Sketch that is dynamic in size, based on a scalable Bloom Filter approach. I'm not sure it worked. Thoughts, suggestions, help?
In our research, we've made some hay …
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