The discrete evolution of phenotypes and nervous systems can provide much information about the structures that carry forward the evolutionary process. There are also relationships at the interse...
Read It Review ItWell, I have been digging around a lot into Nanopore sequencing recently. This started as preparation for a lecture I gave at the Bodega Applied Phylogenetics course a few weeks ago on “The Evoluti...
Read It Review ItI made a Storify summary of the Tweets from a workshop at the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing that I attended on Tuesday on Computational Microbiology (with a big focus on microbiomes). [phylog...
Read It Review ItMendelian randomisation is a technique which, fuelled by the results of GWA studies, can be used to determine causal relationships between intermediate phenotypes such as metabolite levels and outc...
Read It Review ItWhat Have I Done?! There are many firm believers in the different kinds of openness: open access, open source, open data, open science, open you-name-it. And at least to me, some of the most inter...
Read It Review ItHevea brasiliensis, the largest commercial source of natural rubber, is known to be invaded by multiple fungal pathogens, affecting the global rubber production resulting in severe economic losses....
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By Benedikt Rauscher, Benjamen White – 12/07/2015. To encourage the use of BioJavaScript (BioJS) visualisations in Galaxy we decided to create this simple step by step guide on how to use @MrGreeni...
Read It Review ItIn late May, Lior Pachter posted a blog entitled Pachter’s P-value prize, offering a cash prize for providing a probability calculation (P value) based on a “justifiable” null model for the claim o...
Read It Review ItThis past week was the 28th annual Biology of Genomes (BoG) meeting at Cold Spring Harbor. While I wasn’t able to attend the full meeting, I was able to attend on Wed. (the ability to be local and...
Read It Review ItNo design needed! Over the last six months, I spent considerable time and efforts trying to engage biologists in discussions about the design of expression vectors. My goal has been to better under...
Read It Review ItThis is a journal-club style review of the paper “Stimulus dependence of local field potential spectra: experiment versus theory” by Barbieri et al. (2014).
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