These talk notes are for my talk at the 2012 Argonne Soil Metagenomics Workshop.
The slides are available for viewing and download here, on Slideshare.
I'm going to be talking about our assembly pipeline for soil metagenomes.
Much of this work was done by …
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I just finished reading The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation, by Jon Gertner, an absolutely fabulous book on Bell Labs, and their invention of the transistor, the laser, and almost everything to do with modern telecommunications and computers ;).
The final chapter is about the …
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We held the 2012 workshop on Analyzing Next Generation Sequencing Data from June 4 to June 15, at the Kellogg Biological Station in western Michigan, about 30 minutes north of Kalamazoo.
(This is a long delayed blog post. :)
The goal of the workshop is to take biologists with little in …
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Try out this thought experiment.
Suppose you are a bio professor, and a grad student came to you and said, "I'm trying to figure out what classes to take, and there're all these math, modeling, and computational courses that I could take. But I just don't think that math or …
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I'm giving a talk at XLDB 2012 tomorrow, and I thought I'd post a bunch of accompanying links and discussion, since this audience is pretty far away from my normal audience ;).
Here's the talk itself, on slideshare: Streaming and Compression Approaches for Terascale Biological Sequence Data Analysis
Acknowledgements (slide 3 …
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I'm starting to notice that a lot of bioinformatics is anecdotal.
People publish software that "works for them." But it's not clear what "works" means -- all to often either the exact parameters or the specific evaluation procedure is not provided (and yes, there's a double standard here where experimental methods …
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