1. Teaching next-gen sequencing data analysis to biologists

    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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  2. Running a next-gen sequence analysis course using Amazon Web Services

    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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  3. What's with the goat?

    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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  4. A Tale of a Bug

    or, "those python-dev people are awesome."

    My experience with the Python bug tracker has been pretty sparse and largely limited to some of the eternaissues like "make HTMLParser deal with even more broken HTML" that never really get resolved because they're not very important and don't have a champion. So …

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