Getting Genetics Done

About a year ago I wrote a post about producing scatterplot matrices in R . These are handy for quickly getting a sense of the correlations ...

Recently published in Nucleic Acids Research : F. Zambelli, G. M. Prazzoli, G. Pesole, G. Pavesi, Cscan: finding common regulators of a ...

The 20th annual ISMB meeting was held over the last week in Long Beach, CA. It was an incredible meeting with lots of interesting and relev...

I saw this plot  in the supplement of a recent paper comparing microarray results to RNA-seq results. Nothing earth-shattering in the paper...

Thanks to the excellent work of Lucia Hindorff and colleagues at NHGRI, the GWAS catalog provides a great reference for the cumulative re...

I just read an interesting paper on pathogen discovery using next-generation sequencing data, recommended to me by Nick Loman. A previous...

The ENCODE project continues to generate massive numbers of data points on how genes are regulated.  This data will be of incredible use f...

A few folks have asked me how I get my news and stay on top of what's going on in my field, so I thought I'd share my strategy. With...