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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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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Does anyone have any experience with CloudStore, formerly known as KosmosFS? From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CloudStore:
CloudStore (KFS, previously Kosmosfs) is Kosmix's C++ implementation of Google File System. ... CloudStore supports incremental scalability, replication, checksumming for data integrity, client side fail-over and access from C++, Java and Python.
The …
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My wife and I were talking with my USDA collaborator about some possible chicken research, and I asked about access to animals. His response? "Chickens are not a rate limiting factor."
Did you know that 1 million chickens are slaughtered per hour, on average, in the US? Wow.
--titus
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OK, so you have a genome -- let's say it's about 1gb in size -- and you want to do ChIP-seq on a transcription factor that you think binds ~1000 places in the genome. You've measured the specificity of the transcription factor and it seems to enrich about 10-fold over background (an …
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The last two weeks were pretty miserable, for some scientific/collaboration reasons as well as some personal reasons (visiting sick parents != fun). Two things that weren't miserable -- that were in fact quite fun -- were PyOhio and the Science 2.0 talks in Toronto.
PyOhio was a nice little community-based conference …
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I'd like to find an MSU student to report semi-monthly on python-dev. The student would be responsible for monitoring the python-dev mailing list and active PEPs, summarizing substantive discussions in a public forum, and integrating feedback from the community. This would be a 1 credit CSE independent study course (CSE …
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