Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Using Volcano Plots in R to Visualize Microarray and RNA-seq Results

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I've been asked a few times how to make a so-called volcano plot from gene expression results. A volcano plot typically plots some meas...
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Thursday, May 15, 2014

qqman: an R package for creating Q-Q and manhattan plots from GWAS results

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Three years ago I wrote a blog post on how to create manhattan plots in R . After hundreds of comments pointing out bugs and other issues, I...
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Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Mycoplasma Contamination in Cell-Line Based Experiments

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For a few years now, my EvoSTAR colleague , Bill Langdon , has been exploring the degree to which Mycoplasma bacteria have contaminated expe...
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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