An initial taxonomical investigation of the genome bins.
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Comparing genome sets extracted from metagenomes (Sunday Morning Bioinformatics).
Is your bioinformatics analysis package Big Data ready?
Towards a bioinformatics middle class
Note: Turns out Nick Loman is a C programmer. Well, that's what happens when I make assumptions, folks ;).
Jared Simpson just posted a great blog entry on nanopolish, an HMM-based consensus caller for Oxford Nanopore data. In it he describes how he moved from a Python prototype to a standalone …
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Baltis, Bioinformatics, and Google Chromebox
I participated in my second Balti and Bioinformatics on Wednesday - unlike the first one, which ended with only slightly sketchy Indian food in Birmingham, this one was entirely online. The technology worked really well and I think this is a great way to do talks!
For those that haven't seen …
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The fifth workshop on Analyzing Next Generation Sequencing Data
The fifth annual Analyzing Next Generation Sequencing Data workshop just finished - #ngs2014. As usual the schedule and all of the materials are openly available.
tl; dr? Good stuff.
We've been running this thing since 2010, and we now have almost 120 alumni (5 classes of roughly 24 students each). The …
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Talk notes for the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (2014)
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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