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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The apocalypse is nigh. Soon, binary executables and containers in object stores will join the many Web-based pipelines and the several virtual machine images on the dystopic wasteland of "reproducible science."
Anyway.
I had a conversation a few weeks back with a senior colleague about container-based approaches (like Docker) wherein …
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Brian O'Shea (a physics prof at Michigan State) asked me the following, and I thought I'd post it on my blog to get a broader set of responses. I know the answer is "Python 3", but I would appreciate specific thoughts from people with experience either with the specific packages …
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Here's a draft PyCon '14 proposal. Comments and suggestions welcome!
Title: Data intensive biology in the cloud: instrumenting ALL the things
Description: (400 ch)
Cloud computing offers some great opportunities for science, but most cloud computing platforms are both I/O and memory limited, and hence are poor matches for …
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Note: Yarden Katz (the author of MISO) sent me the e-mail below, and I asked him if I could post it as a guest-post on my blog. He said yes - so here it is! Feedback solicited.
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Hi Titus,
Hope all is well. A recent tweet you had about Ben Bolker's …
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(This blog post was mightily helped by Qingpeng Zhang, the first author of the paper; he wrote the pipeline. I just ran it a bunch :)
We have been benchmarking k-mer counters in a variety of ways, in preparation for an upcoming paper. As with the diginorm paper we are automating …
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I've been reading Peter Seibel's excellent book, Coders at Work, which is a transcription of interviews with a dozen or so very well known and impactful programmers. After the first two interviews, I found myself itching to highlight certain sections, and then I thought, heck, why not post some of …
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