So, we've been running this course on NGS data analysis. And it's been fun and all. But a lot of work.
About a year ago, I thought hard about whether or not I wanted to apply for renewal, and ended up applying again. You can see the final grant if …
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As the title says, I've got a new job.
But it's not really that exciting a switch, sorry :)
As of mid-August sometime, I will officially switch my appointment from 2/3 Computer Science and Engineering / 1/3 Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, to 2/3 Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, 1/3 …
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(With very little apology whatsoever to Geoffrey North.)
The airplane age, in particular the advent of large, well-attended conferences, has created a brave new world of broadcasting instant criticism of scientific papers, for good or ill.
I think there is a clear "good" side, illustrated by cases where papers making …
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So, I got this grant. And, um, it looks like khmer has a future, which means... so does my lab.
What is khmer?
khmer is my lab's software for doing various things to sequencing data, and is largely focused on providing good demo implementations of low-memory data structures …
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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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I just finished reading The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, an excellent book about the HeLa cell line cultured from cancerous cells taken from Henrietta Lacks. In addition to raising some really interesting and astonishing questions about the appropriate (mis)use of patients' tissue samples, a section about George Gey …
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My advice to graduate students: blog! post garnered some interesting comments here and there. Most of the responses were positive, but then again, most anyone who reads blogs probably doesn't need to be convinced that blogging is useful. In particular, note that some of the comments at the bottom of …
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