In September, I will be visiting the NIH to "chart the next 5 years of data science at the NIH." This meeting will use an open space approach, and we were asked to provide some suggested topics. Here are five topics that I suggested, and one that Jeramia Ory suggested …
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Create a github repository named something like '2014-paper-xxxx'. Ask me for name suggestions.
In that github repo, do the following:
Write a Makefile or some other automated way of generating all results from data - see
https://github.com/ged-lab/2013-khmer-counting/blob/master/pipeline/Makefile
or ask Camille (@camille_codon) what she …
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These are the talk notes for my opening talk at the 2014 Bioinformatics Open Source Conference.
Normally my talk notes aren't quite so extensive, but for some reason I thought it would be a good idea to give an "interesting" talk, so my talk title was "A History of Bioinformatics …
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I'm at the 2014 Marine Microbes Gordon Conference right now, and at the end of my talk, I brought up the point that the function of most genes is unknown. It's not a controversial point in any community that does environmental sequencing, but I feel it should be mentioned at …
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We just released khmer v1.1, a minor version update from khmer v1.0.1 (minor version update: 220 commits, 370 files changed).
Cancel that -- _I_ just released khmer, because I'm the release manager for v1.1!
As part of an effort to find holes in our documentation, "surface" any …
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Eli Kintisch (@elikint) just wrote a very nice article on "Sharing in Science" for Science Careers; his article contained quotes from my MSU colleague Ian Dworkin as well as from me.
When Eli sent me an e-mail with some questions about open science, I responded at some length (hey, I …
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