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AGBT broke up a couple of weeks ago and I've failed to write anything here so far. It was frustrating not attending, but not registering for a meeting in February seemed prudent given the pattern of COVID waves - I hadn't considered (nor would have wanted to bank on) AGBT organizers reacting so well and rescheduling the meeting. It sounds like a number of attendees did catch the virus at the meeting -- though I'm presumably still quite protected by …
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The **Biostar Herald** publishes user submitted links of bioinformatics relevance. It aims to provide a summary of interesting and relevant information you may have missed...
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The **Biostar Herald** publishes user submitted links of bioinformatics relevance. It aims to provide a summary of interesting and relevant information you may have missed...
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A bit over a year ago Google made one of their dreaded announcements that they would be slowly killing off one of their acquisitions, in this case FeedBurner. Well over a thousand of you have been using FeedBurner to follow me via email. Follow.it has a wonderful free plan that can take over all of the previous functionality and I could just import the old subscription listRead more »
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To date, the new entrants targeting Illumina’s short read business have been aiming at the middle of Illumina’s range, trying to take on NextSeq. Element Biosciences is touting high accuracy for a low price. Omniome (now PacBio) also has positioned itself to tout accuracy. Singular Genomics is claiming to enable great flexibility and fast runs. But all aimed at NextSeq. As part of the run up to AGBT another company is decloaking from stealth mode: Ultima Genomics, however they are …
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Biomedical journal articles are full of categorical data, showing data for control and case groups using barplots with whiskers. While these are popular, that type of chart can hide the underlying data patterns and are discouraged by statisticians. There are other alternatives such as boxplots, violin charts and strip charts, but I've become a big fan of beeswarm charts lately. The reason is that beeswarms show the distribution just like violin plots but have the benefit of showing the individual …
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The **Biostar Herald** publishes user submitted links of bioinformatics relevance. It aims to provide a summary of interesting and relevant information you may have missed...
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Pentecostalism is a renewal movement within Christianity, and like many such movements, it adheres to the inerrancy of scripture and the necessity of accepting Christ as personal Lord and Savior, while placing special emphasis on direct personal experiences. A main tenet of Pentecostalism is the belief in empowerment, which leads to spiritual gifts, such as speaking in tongues (glossolalia), divine healing, and the ability to handle snakes without being harmed.The interesting thing about speaking in tongues is that no Pentecostal …
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The **Biostar Herald** publishes user submitted links of bioinformatics relevance. It aims to provide a summary of interesting and relevant information you may have missed...
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London Calling was last week and Clive Brown's big revelation was a peek at Oxford Nanopore's progress on enabling peptide sequencing on the platform. Peptide sequencing and identification is a hot area right now, with multiple startups looking to provide alternatives to mass spectrometry approaches. Clive stressed that the technology is very early in development. It's definitely a clever fork of the existing DNA sequencing technology. However, it also illustrates a significant organizational challenge which Oxford. So I'm going to …
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Baylor University is a Baptist university. Thus, at Baylor, they celebrate a research creed whereby “research, scholarship and faith guide the mind in understanding the complex diversity of God’s creation.” At Baylor University evolution is taught, but the Biology Department finds it necessary to provide an explanation as to why they do that. Most universities do not provide an explanation.What do researchers do when their findings contradict elements of the Christian faith or the Christian practice? Do they manipulate the …
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GRCh38.p14 (GCA_000001405.29/GCF_000001405.40), the latest update to the human reference assembly, has been released! It adds 69 new patch scaffolds, 51 of which are FIX patches that update sequences on the GRCh38 reference chromosomes or alternate loci, while 18 are NOVEL patches, providing new alternate representations for complex genomic regions that are inadequately represented by a single sequence. Two previously released FIX patches were also updated. With this release, the reference assembly contains a total of 250 patch scaffolds (164 FIX, …
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Google drive is great for sharing documents and other small files but it's definitely not suited to moving many large files around. For example I just received 170 fastq files that are about 200 MB in size. If you use the browser to download the whole folder, the web app will zip the contents for you which will take a LOOONG time. Alternatively you can download each and every one of those files one by one, which is annoying and …
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Clive Brown gave a "mezzanine" update on Oxford Nanopore just over two weeks ago titled "The Knights Who Say Me". Clive reiterated a lot of prior guidance but did make a few announcements that are relevant to the ongoing history of the Oxford Nanopore platform - and blessedly, he omitted for time's sake a deep coverage of that history or the usual Nanopore 101 tutorial. In particular, two long-time components of the platform are now headed for the exits.Read more …
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Today in Science a slew of papers have been published from the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) Consortium. The flagship paper details the generation of a complete genome assembly from a Complete Hydatiform Mole (CHM) cell line which is telomere-to-telomere for all 22 autosomes plus X (assembly T2T-CHM13); the companion papers apply this groundbreaking assembly to a number of biological questions. PacBio CSO Jonas Korlach and I chatted yesterday about the PacBio contribution to the flagship as well as two of the other …
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It seems like an age ago, but in fact it was only mid-January 2022 when this happened: The answers are yes and yes again. One excellent source of weather station data is the Weather Underground. They used to have an API which could be accessed through an R package, rwunderground. This API was retired several … Continue reading Using R to detect the pressure wave from the 2022 Hunga Tonga eruption in personal weather station data
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If you sit in the intersection of “likes Australian Rules football / finds sport statistics interesting / is on Twitter”, you’ve probably come across Swamp. One of his recent tweets tells us that: The answer to that question is at once surprising, less surprising when you think about it, and quite easy to figure out … Continue reading Using R/fitzRoy to ask: how many times a V/AFL team with the same lineup has played together?
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