I'm just finishing up my Computational Science for Evolutionary Biologists course, and I'm finding it tricky to come up with a good high-level summary of what I would like them to take away. As you can see from the class notes they've done some reasonably neat stuff with Digital Life …
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PLoS Biology published an article entitled Open Education, Open Minds, in which they solicited ideas for contributions to a series on life sciences education:
Contributions to the Education Series are encouraged; ideas should be sent to plosbiology@plos.org.
So I sent in an e-mail and got back
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I just parachuted in on (and heli'd out of?) the Beyond the Genome conference in Boston. I gave a very brief workshop on using EC2 for sequence analysis, which seemed well received. (Mind you, virtually everything possible went wrong, from lack of good network access to lack of attendee computers …
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In thinking about open science and open communication about science, I've always been frustrated by the people who claim that the risks outweight the benefit. Their arguments seem sound if you buy into a certain kind of logic (the creationists will try to twist whatever you say! the climate change …
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(with Billie Swalla)
I've spent the last two weeks out at the Roscoff Statione Biologique in Roscoff, France. This little port is on the northern coast of the French region of Bretagne, or Brittany. I'm here with Billie Swalla, a professor at UW Seattle, and Elijah Lowe, a Computer Science …
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(with Adina Howe, Jason Pell, Rosangela Canino-Koning, and Arend Hintze).
A few weeks ago I blogged a bit about a k-mer filtering system, khmer, that we were using to reduce metagenomic data to a more tractable size by throwing out error-prone reads (see A memory efficient way to remote …
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I'm a big believer in open science -- see this great polemic over at Mendeley for a good read -- but it's always interesting to think about how such things as "data release" can be perverted by clever scientists. I'm currently in France working on some ascidians with Billie Swalla -- more on …
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