Note: this hackathon report was written by ArisKnight Winfree.
This past weekend was the University of Michigan’s hackathon, MHacks IV. Over 1100 students from universities and high schools across the United States took over Ann Arbor from September 5th through September 7th to participate in one of the most …
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At the NIH ADDS meeting, we had several breakout sessions. Michelle Dunn and I led the training session. For this breakout, we had the following agenda:
First, build "sticky-note clouds", with one sticky-note cloud with notes for each of the following topics:
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In Extracting shotgun reads based on coverage in the data set, we showed how to get a read coverage spectrum for a shotgun data set. This is a useful diagnostic tool that can be used to estimate total genome size, average coverage, and repetitive content.
Uses for this recipe include …
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I am pleased to announce that Dr. Greg Wilson will be giving a two-day Software Carpentry Instructor Training workshop at UC Davis, January 6-7, 2015. This will be an in-person version of the instructor training that Greg runs every quarter; see my blog post about the first such instructor training …
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As I mentioned, I am hoping to significantly scale up my training efforts at UC Davis; it's one of the reasons they hired me, it's a big need in biology, and I'm enthusiastic about the whole thing! A key point is that, at least at the beginning, it may replace …
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Update 3/29/15: the CAMI FAQ now includes information on reproducibility measures, and looks very promising. The data sets they are producing also seem fascinating.
If you're into metagenomics, you may have heard of CAMI, the Critical Assessment of Metagenome Interpretation. I've spoken to several people about it in …
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