Gabriella Coleman asked me for a short, general introduction to open science for a class, and I couldn't find anything that fit her needs. So I wrote up my own perspective. Feedback welcome!
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A shotgun metagenome workshop at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography
We just finished teaching a two day workshop at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography down at UC San Diego. Dr. Harriet Alexander, a postdoc in my lab, and I spent two days going through cloud computing, short read quality and k-mer trimming, metagenome assembly, quantification of gene abundance, mapping of …
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Publishing Open Source Research Software in JOSS - an experience report
Our first JOSS submission (paper? package?) is about to be accepted and I wanted to enthuse about the process a bit.
JOSS, the Journal of Open Source Software, is a place to publish your research software packages. Quoting from the about page,
The Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) is …
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A draft genome for the tule elk
(Please contact us at bnsacks@ucdavis.edu if you are interested in access to any of this data. We're still working out how and when to make it public.)
The tule elk (Cervus elaphus nannodes) is a California-endemic subspecies that underwent a major genetic bottleneck when its numbers were reduced …
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Lessons on doing science from my father, Gerry Brown
(This is an invited chapter for a memorial book about my father. You can also read my remembrances from the day after he passed away.)
Dr. Gerald E. Brown was a well known nuclear physicist and astrophysicist who worked at Stony Brook University from 1968 until his death in 2013 …
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What I did on my summer vacation: Microbial Diversity 2016
I just left Woods Hole, MA, where I spent the last 6 and a half weeks taking the Microbial Diversity course as a student. It was fun, exhausting, stimulating, and life changing!
The course had three components: a lecture series, in which world-class microbiologists gave 2-3 hrs of talks each …
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Increasing postdoc pay