These days, molecular biologists are dealing with lots and lots of sequences, largely due to next-gen sequencing technologies. For example, the Illumina GA2 is producing 100-200 million DNA sequences, each of 75-125 bases, per run; that works out to 20 gb of sequence data per run, not counting metadata such …
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Analyzing Next-Generation Sequencing Data
May 31 - June 11th, 2010
Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University
CSE 891 s431 / MMG 890 s433, 2 cr
Applications are due by midnight EST, April 9th, 2010.
Course sponsor: Gene Expression in Disease and Development Focus Group at Michigan State University.
Instructors: Dr. C. Titus …
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I've spent several hours in the past year trying to debug a frustrating error with the vmware Web UI for Linux. This UI relies on running iceweasel (aka Firefox) on the VM host machine. I think I finally solved the problem today, after much tooth gnashing.
Briefly, if you get …
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The National Science Foundation just announced that the BEACON Science and Technology Center centered at Michigan State University was just funded. BEACON stands for "Bio/computational Evolution in Action Consortium" - you can check out the Web site here.
In my own nutshell, BEACON is focused on studying the evolution of …
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A new meme was born at PyCon 2010: The Testing Goat.
Or, "Be Stubborn. Obey the Goat."
The goat actually emerged from the Testing In Python Birds of a Feather session at PyCon, where Terry Peppers used slides full of goat in his introduction. This was apparently an overreaction to …
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On the heels of my aggressive competence post, about (among other things) my failure to outline my expectations for students, I've started putting together a page to help manage student expectations for the pony-build project, which is participating in the Undergraduate Capstone Open-Source Projects (UCOSP) course this term.
(Please comment …
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