Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Russ Altman's Translational Bioinformatics Year in Review

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A few weeks ago the 2014 AMIA Translational Bioinformatics Meeting (TBI) was held in beautiful San Francisco.  This meeting is full of grea...
Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Unsuck your writing

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I recently found this little gem of a web app that analyzes the clarity of your writing. Hemingway highlights long, complex, and hard to re...
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Thursday, March 20, 2014

Visualize coverage for targeted NGS (exome) experiments

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I'm calling variants from exome sequencing data and I need to evaluate the efficiency of the capture and the coverage along the target r...
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Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Software Carpentry at UVA, Redux

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Software Carpentry is an international collaboration backed by Mozilla and the Sloan Foundation comprising a team of volunteers that te...
Thursday, February 20, 2014

Data Analysis for Genomics MOOC

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Last month I told you about Coursera's specializations in data science, systems biology, and computing. Today I was reading Jeff Leek...
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Tuesday, February 11, 2014

There is no Such Thing as Biomedical "Big Data"

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At the moment, the world is obsessed with “Big Data” yet it sometimes seems that people who use this phrase don’t have a good grasp of its ...
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Thursday, January 30, 2014

GNU Screen

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This is one of those things I picked up years ago while in graduate school that I just assumed everyone else already knew about. GNU screen ...
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Coursera Specializations: Data Science, Systems Biology, Python Programming

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I first mentioned Coursera about a year ago , when I hired a new analyst in my core. This new hire came in as a very competent Python progra...