We held the 2012 workshop on Analyzing Next Generation Sequencing Data from June 4 to June 15, at the Kellogg Biological Station in western Michigan, about 30 minutes north of Kalamazoo.
(This is a long delayed blog post. :)
The goal of the workshop is to take biologists with little in …
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Data and materials availability All data necessary to understand, assess, and extend the conclusions of the manuscript must be available to any reader of Science. All computer codes involved in the creation or analysis of data must also be available to any reader of Science. After publication, all reasonable …read more
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I recently attended an NSF BIO directorate meeting about cyberinfrastructure needs. Here's a list of training & education challenges identified at that meeting:
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- development and adaptation of tools to archive data and metadata from diverse sources to enable data mining
- integration of structured and unstructured data from heterogenous data sources
- discussion …
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Here's a data analysis question for all you Big Data folk.
A beachcomber is interested in obtaining up to 10 examples of every type of shell present on a beach. The shells are individually easy to find, but some types are really rare and some are really abundant. The beachcomber …
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I'm a pretty big advocate of anything open -- open source, open access, and open science, in particular. I always have been. And now that I'm a professor, I've been trying to figure out how to actually practice open science effectively
What is open science? Well, I think of it as …
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I'm pretty proud of our most recently posted paper, which is on a sequence analysis concept we call digital normalization. I think the paper is pretty kick-ass, but so is the way in which we're approaching replication. This blog post is about the latter.
(Quick note re "replication" vs "reproduction …
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