So my daughter just participated in her first science fair, at the age of 6. ("Conclusion: science can be fun! and sticky!")
Over dinner, my wife and I came up with some ideas for her next fair. She was having trouble dissolving sugar in ice water, so we suggested maybe …
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Links, software, thoughts -- all solicited! Add 'em below or send 'em to me, t@idyll.org.
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Imagine... a rolling 48 hour hackathon, internationally teleconferenced, on reproducing analyses in preprints and papers. Each room of contributors could hack on things collaboratively while awake, then pass it on to others in overlapping …
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I'm pleased to announce the publication of "Tackling soil diversity with the assembly of large, complex metagenomes", by Adina Howe, Janet Jansson, Stephanie Malfatti, Susannah Tringe, James Tiedje, and myself. The paper is openly available on the PNAS Web site here (open access).
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Note: updated 2/18 with Benton Gravely's name -- he did the squid genome sequencing!
A few months back, I announced the khmer protocols project, an effort to write down an explicit, open protocol for transcriptome and metagenome assembly. This project was started during the summer of 2013 at the Woods …
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This term, I'm once again teaching my upper-division CSE undergrad course in Web Dev here at MSU. For the second time, I'm requiring students to use github for their homework; unlike last year, I now understand pull requests and have integrated them into the process.
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