About a year ago, I came across a really interesting Science paper entitled "Rapid and inefficient isolation of single cells from soil". In it, the authors -- from a well-known lab at UC Davis -- described how they used low-percentage agarose gels to extract thousands of individual cells from a soil sample …
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As part of the 2012 Analyzing Next-Generation Sequencing Data course, I've been trying out ipython notebook for the tutorials.
In previous years, our tutorials all looked like this: Short read assembly with Velvet -- basically, reStructuredText files integrated with Sphinx. This had a lot of advantages, including Googleability and simplicity; but …
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I just returned from a NESCent Catalysis meeting on Cephalopod Genomics. I was invited as a bioinformatics and genomics guy, and so I spent four days in North Carolina talking about the opportunities and challenges of sequencing cephalopods.
Cephalopods are a class of the molluscs, and include squid and octopus …
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This is a draft proposal of a policy to encourage pre-publication data release and data sharing within a community. This policy is based on discussions at the Cephalopod Genomics Workshop (a Catalysis workshop sponsored by NESCent).
Note, this is made available under a CC-BY-SA license permitting use and re-use with …
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Greg Wilson, Ethan White and I have been talking a bit about what Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) standards would look like for computational science. I'm having trouble coming up with more than the below standards, which are largely related to publication.
Note, if you regard these as obvious, that's …
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Brad Chapman (@chapmanb on twitter) wrote and signed a nice review of my submission to the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference. In his review, he said
My only small suggestion is to include some discussion about your reproducibility work during the talk: the Amazon AMI, documentation and reproducible ipython workflows. This …read more
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(I came across this fragmentary blog post that I wrote sometime in December. It's a fine example of a failed allegory. To what, I'll let you determine for yourself. Anyway, in case anyone wants to know what dreck doesn't make it out of my computer onto the Intarweb, well, here's …
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