I recently had the pleasure of reviewing an excellent paper that used actual data (DATA!) to argue that source code needs to be part of the review process. (When it is published I will post again about it; for now, the process of secret handshakes in smoke-filled back rooms must …
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I gave a talk last Wednesday at U. Michigan in the DCMB program where I included a slide estimating how much DNA sequencing (in base pairs) was needed for good de novo assembly of sequences from various biological environments or problems. The slide was there to motivate the challenges of …
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An increasing number of people are asking about using our assembly approaches for things that we haven't yet written (or posted) papers about. Moreover, our assembly strategies themselves are also under constant evolution as we do more research and find ever-wider applicability of our approaches.
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Note: this post is a guest post by Rohan Maddamsetti, posted by the regular blog author, Titus Brown. Typos are Titus's fault. Flaws in logic are Rohan's ;). See the paper on arXiv [1] and the discussion on Haldane's Sieve, also.
I recently wrote a short paper explaining some interesting results …
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At BOSC 2012, we heard a report from Richard Holland on the Pistoia Alliance Sequence Squeeze competition. I'd run across this a couple of times before -- most notably in the Quip paper -- and was interested in hearing the results.
What was the problem being tackled? To quote,
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After yet another round of futile Twittering on the subject of research software, I thought I'd share a deeply personal story -- a story that explains some of my rather adamant stance that most research scientists need to think more critically about their code, and should adopt at least some of …
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I just finished reading The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation, by Jon Gertner, an absolutely fabulous book on Bell Labs, and their invention of the transistor, the laser, and almost everything to do with modern telecommunications and computers ;).
The final chapter is about the …
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