A while back, someone else's graduate student asked me (slightly edited to protect the innocent :) --
I already have two independent sets of de novo transcriptome assemblies and annotations of the NGS data [...] 1) from the company who did the sequencing and analysis, and 2) from our pipeline here. It would …read more
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On December 10th, 2014, I was formally awarded tenure at UC Davis, where I will start as an Associate Professor in the School of Veterinary Medicine on January 5th, 2015. In my research statement for my job application, I wrote:
Open science and scientific reproducibility: I am a strong advocate …read more
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I was a reviewer on Determining the quality and complexity of next-generation sequencing data without a reference genome by Anvar et al., PDF here. Here is the top bit of my review.
One interesting side note - the authors originally named their tool kMer and I complained about it in my …
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The apocalypse is nigh. Soon, binary executables and containers in object stores will join the many Web-based pipelines and the several virtual machine images on the dystopic wasteland of "reproducible science."
Anyway.
I had a conversation a few weeks back with a senior colleague about container-based approaches (like Docker) wherein …
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Dear <chairs>,
I am resigning my Assistant Professor position at Michigan State University effective January 2nd, 2015.
Sincerely,
CTB.
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Brian O'Shea (a physics prof at Michigan State) asked me the following, and I thought I'd post it on my blog to get a broader set of responses. I know the answer is "Python 3", but I would appreciate specific thoughts from people with experience either with the specific packages …
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A few months ago, I wrote a short description of how we make our papers replicable in the lab. One problem with this process is that for complex pipelines, it's not always obvious how to connect a number in the paper to the steps in the pipeline that produced it …
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