1. The story behind "Scaling Metagenome Assembly with Probabilistic de Bruijn Graphs"

    This is the story behind our PNAS paper, "Scaling Metagenome Assembly with Probabilistic de Bruijn Graphs" (released from embargo this past Monday).

    Why did we write it? How did it get started? Well, rewind the tape 2 years and more...

    There we were in May 2010, sitting on 500 million …

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  2. What biologists need to know about cyberinfrastructure

    I recently attended an NSF BIO directorate meeting about cyberinfrastructure needs. Here's a list of training & education challenges identified at that meeting:

    • development and adaptation of tools to archive data and metadata from diverse sources to enable data mining
    • integration of structured and unstructured data from heterogenous data sources
    • discussion …
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  3. The Beachcomber's Dilemma

    Here's a data analysis question for all you Big Data folk.

    A beachcomber is interested in obtaining up to 10 examples of every type of shell present on a beach. The shells are individually easy to find, but some types are really rare and some are really abundant. The beachcomber …

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