Julia Gustavsen and I just finished teaching one room of a 3-room Software Carpentry boot camp at University of Washington, Seattle.
Students remained interested and vocal, even when looking exhausted.
Almost all came back the second day!
We got some good individual feedback that we'd taught useful things …
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A short note -- the lamprey genome (P. marinus) paper is finally out! You can see the paper and the Michigan State University press release. (The press release isn't too bad, but I would like to point out that I had no part in the sentence talking about how this could …
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Note: this is the general part of the submitted review; I left out the things that I expect might change if revisions are made.
Also see Thoughts on the Assemblathon 2 paper.
Re the Assemblathon 2 paper <http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.5406>,
Bradnam et …
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(Also see Assemblathon 2 review, round 1, parts thereof)
I just finished reviewing the Assemblathon 2 paper, in which many of the extant de novo genome assembly pipelines were evaluated against three different organismal data sets. (I'll post the review when I can.) Good paper.
To me, the biggest outcome …
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I received this letter in the mail the other day. Can anyone help?
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Dear Dr. Abby,
I am at a top-50 R1 research institution, and we are currently conducting faculty hiring searches for a number of professors in biology. The applicant pool has been stunningly good this year, and we …
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I was a reviewer on Boisvert et al., Ray Meta: scalable de novo metagenome assembly and profiling, and (as with DSK: k-mer counting with very low memory usage) I thought I'd share my review.
(Sorry, it's really short. My first round review had some comments that they handily addressed in …
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