Our sequencing analysis course ended last Friday, with an overwhelmingly positive response from the students. The few negative comments that I got were largely about organizational issues, and could be reshaped as suggestions for next time rather than as condemnations of this year's course.
The 23 students -- most with no …
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So, I've been teaching a course on next-generation sequence analysis for the last week, and one of the issues I had to deal with before I proposed the course was how to deal with the volume of data and the required computation.
You see, next-generation sequence analysis involves analyzing not …
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So, I'm running this summer course and I am trying to figure out how to organize the notes for students. I'd like to mix curriculum-specific notes ("here's what we're doing today, and here are some problems to work on") with tutorials (material independent of a single course, like "here's how …
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In conversation with a colleague the other day, I found myself making a surprising prediction: the age of the big sequencing centers (Broad Institute, WUSTL, Baylor, DOE JGI, etc.) is coming to an end. In 5 years they will no longer exist.
This prediction is obvious in hindsight.
That is …
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Dear NSF,
I am happy to respond to your request for a 2-page Data Management Plan.
First of all, let me say how enthusiastic I am that you have embraced this new field of "large scale data analysis". Ever since I started working with large Avida data sets in 1993 …
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Just got news that the BEACON NSF Science and Technology Center for the study of Evolution in Action funded Chris Adami to come do a sabbatical here at Michigan State University for the next year. This puts me, Chris, and Charles Ofria at the same institution (now MSU, then Caltech …
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Inspired by the brilliant mind(s) behind python-commandments.org, here's a list of ideas you can use to help newbies learn Python!
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