Thursday, May 30, 2013

PLATO, an Alternative to PLINK

›
Since the near beginning of genome-wide association studies, the PLINK software package (developed by Shaun Purcell’s group at the B...
1 comment:
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Automated Archival and Visual Analysis of Tweets Mentioning #bog13, Bioinformatics, #rstats, and Others

›
Automatically Archiving Twitter Results Ever since Twitter gamed its own API and killed off great services like IFTTT triggers , I've...
Monday, May 6, 2013

Three Metagenomics Papers for You

›
A handful of good metagenomics papers have come out over the last few months. Below I've linked to and copied my evaluation of each of t...
Thursday, April 4, 2013

List of Bioinformatics Workshops and Training Resources

›
I frequently get asked to recommend workshops or online learning resources for bioinformatics, genomics, statistics, and programming. I comp...
17 comments:
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Evolutionary Computation and Data Mining in Biology

›
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

›
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

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

NetGestalt for Data Visualization in the Context of Pathways

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