Or, "can we crowdsource BGI?" ;)
With all of the crazy need surrounding genomic analysis -- most of it on a shoestring budget -- I am thinking about a mildly crazy idea.
What if I offered to computationally analyze people's non-model transcriptomic and metagenomic data for them, in exchange for (a) non-exclusive access …
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I just finished attending a 1-day workshop on Cyberinfrastructure for Marine 'Omics down in DC. It was a meeting organized by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation but attended by program managers from about a dozen different agencies and divisions (NSF BIO, NSF GEO, etc.); a bunch of pretty serious …
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I'm on my way down to D.C. to attend another meeting about cyberinfrastructure, this time with a bent towards metagenomics pipelines. (At least, I'm pretty sure that's why I'm invited. It's getting hard to tell these days.)
Inspired by James Watters' blog post on his "fork you" shirt, I …
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Julia Gustavsen and I just finished teaching one room of a 3-room Software Carpentry boot camp at University of Washington, Seattle.
Students remained interested and vocal, even when looking exhausted.
Almost all came back the second day!
We got some good individual feedback that we'd taught useful things …
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A short note -- the lamprey genome (P. marinus) paper is finally out! You can see the paper and the Michigan State University press release. (The press release isn't too bad, but I would like to point out that I had no part in the sentence talking about how this could …
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Note: this is the general part of the submitted review; I left out the things that I expect might change if revisions are made.
Also see Thoughts on the Assemblathon 2 paper.
Re the Assemblathon 2 paper <http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.5406>,
Bradnam et …
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(Also see Assemblathon 2 review, round 1, parts thereof)
I just finished reviewing the Assemblathon 2 paper, in which many of the extant de novo genome assembly pipelines were evaluated against three different organismal data sets. (I'll post the review when I can.) Good paper.
To me, the biggest outcome …
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