Late last year, inspired by a review I did of a Science submission, I wrote a blog post asking what people thought of the Insight Journal. This was in response to the submission's mention of Image Processing On Line.
The Science paper is finally out -- actually, I missed it, it …
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As the title says, I've got a new job.
But it's not really that exciting a switch, sorry :)
As of mid-August sometime, I will officially switch my appointment from 2/3 Computer Science and Engineering / 1/3 Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, to 2/3 Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, 1/3 …
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(With very little apology whatsoever to Geoffrey North.)
The airplane age, in particular the advent of large, well-attended conferences, has created a brave new world of broadcasting instant criticism of scientific papers, for good or ill.
I think there is a clear "good" side, illustrated by cases where papers making …
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So, I got this grant. And, um, it looks like khmer has a future, which means... so does my lab.
What is khmer?
khmer is my lab's software for doing various things to sequencing data, and is largely focused on providing good demo implementations of low-memory data structures …
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I've been asked -- in several different contexts now -- whether not the openness of my lab has had any specific impact. I blog about active research; we develop our code in the open; we post papers to arXiv; we emphasize remixability; I'm pushing open data in consortia; and we are trying …
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At the "What to Teach Biologists about Computing" meeting (discussed here, a bit) we received a strong message from Our Dear MozSciLabLeader, Kaitlin Thaney. The message was this: if we want to maximize reuse and remixing of educational materials, we should explicitly license them under CC0. (See her talk and …
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