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 browse to http://instititution.edu/~home/professorX/lab/data, there's no trace of what you were looking for. THE P...
This blog post by Sean Taylor generated quite a stir. He discussed the signals one sends by using certain software packages and seems to think that R users are more competent. The reactions ranged from amusement to bashing. In defense of hard to learn statistical tools, i.e. #rstats prsm.tc/gyTBRK <- pretty funny 'who uses what […]
I've said it before: Twitter makes me a lazy blogger. Lots of stuff came across my radar this week that didn't make it into a full blog post. Here's a quick recap: PLOS Computational Biology: Chapter 1: Biomedical Knowledge Integration Assuring the...
Coursera's free Computing for Data Analysis course starts today. It's a four week long course, requiring about 3-5 hours/week. A bit about the course: In this course you will learn how to program in R and how to use R for effective data analysis....
This is a follow-up to one of our most popular posts: getting email responses from busy people. This post had been in the drafts for a few weeks, then this morning I saw this quote in our Twitter feed: Your … Continue reading →
There's a new kid on the block for RNA-seq alignment. Dobin, Alexander, et al. "STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner." Bioinformatics (2012). Aligning RNA-seq data is challenging because reads can overlap splice junctions. Many other RNA-seq ali...
I am working on a project that requires the generation of Bernoulli outcomes. Typically, I would go about this using the built in sample() function like so: This works great and is fast, even for large n. Problem is, I want to generate each sample with its own unique probability. Seems straight forward enough, I
Given that Sampdoria have lost their fourth game in a row, I am not really interested in football any more (as of yesterday, I actually find it a very boring game and think we should focus on real sports $-$ of course if we manage to break the cra...
Great as it is, Google does not always give the "best", or "right" (ie "most appropriate") results on a given search. For example, if you google "jags" (using google.co.uk), the first results are a girls' independent school and a sports club. The real ...
The paper is a review of how to do software development for academics. I saw it via C. Titus Brown (who we have interviewed), he is also a co-author. How to write software (particularly for other people) is something that is under emphasized in many cu...
