I was a reviewer on Boisvert et al., Ray Meta: scalable de novo metagenome assembly and profiling, and (as with DSK: k-mer counting with very low memory usage) I thought I'd share my review.
(Sorry, it's really short. My first round review had some comments that they handily addressed in …
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Why do I blog?
I've been blogging now for almost 8 years, since around when Grig Gheorghiu started the Southern California Python Interest Group. Since then I've gotten a PhD, taken a postdoc, had one child, started a faculty position, had another child, and basically gotten way, way busier. Why …
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One of my graduate students and I were reviewers on Rizk et al., DSK: k-mer counting with very low memory usage, and I thought I'd share our review. At the moment I cannot easily see the entire paper so I have not modified the review to account for post-review changes …
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I just spent a really fun and exciting two hours installing a piece of software that I needed to run to do a paper review. The software itself downloaded, but failed routinely on their own test data; after delving through four layers of Perl and Python, I discovered that the …
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The other day, I purchased a new car from the car company down the street. This was a small boutique shop, and their marketing brochure was slick -- 0-60 in 6 seconds, heated seats, a good safety rating -- and the technical reviews were amazing -- "Never seen anything like it! Really novel …
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I just left the NAS meeting on Integrating Environmental Health Data to Advance Discovery, where I was an invited speaker. It was a pretty interesting meeting, with presentations from speakers who worked on chemotoxicity data, pollution data, exposure data, and electronic health records, as well as a few "outsiders" from …
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I just left the NAS meeting on Integrating Environmental Health Data to Advance Discovery, where I was an invited speaker. It was a pretty interesting meeting, with presentations from speakers who worked on chemotoxicity data, pollution data, exposure data, and electronic health records, as well as a few "outsiders" from …
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