Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Evolutionary Computation and Data Mining in Biology

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For over 15 years, members of the computer science, machine learning, and data mining communities have gathered in a beautiful European loca...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Software Carpentry Bootcamp at University of Virginia

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A couple of weeks ago I, with the help of others here at UVA , organized a Software Carpentry bootcamp , instructed by Steve Crouch , Ca...
Monday, March 4, 2013

Comparing Sequence Classification Algorithms for Metagenomics

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Metagenomics is the study of DNA collected from environmental samples (e.g., seawater, soil, acid mine drainage, the human gut, sputum, pus...
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

NetGestalt for Data Visualization in the Context of Pathways

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Many of you may be familiar with WebGestalt , a wonderful web utility developed by Bing Zhang at Vanderbilt for doing basic gene-set enrichm...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013

"Document Design and Purpose, Not Mechanics"

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If you ever write code for scientific computing (chances are you do if you're here), stop what you're doing and spend 8 minutes read...
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Monday, January 28, 2013

Scotty, We Need More Power! Power, Sample Size, and Coverage Estimation for RNA-Seq

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Two of the most common questions at the beginning of an RNA-seq experiments are "how many reads do I need?" and "how many rep...
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Monday, January 14, 2013

The Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2013

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For 18 years now, computational biologists have convened on the beautiful islands of Hawaii to present and discuss research emerging from...
Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Stop Hosting Data and Code on your Lab Website

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It's happened to all of us. You read about a new tool, database, webservice, software, or some interesting and useful data, but when you...
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