A first look at CycloneSEQ data
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Using AI to find heterogeneous scientific speakers
(Alt title: how I am using AI to prevent manels and how you can too)...
Why Rust is an increasingly beloved part of my programming toolbox
Rust is nice!
...Why is bwa-aln used for ancient DNA reads?
The many ways to calculate Moran’s I for identifying spatially variable genes in spatial transcriptomics data
In this blog post, I will compare 4 implementations of Moran’s I in R (MERINGUE, Rfast2, ape, and spdep) to identify spatially variable genes (SVGs) in spatial transcriptomics data....
Recent advances in the sourmash ecosystem (August 2024)
sourmash is faster and better than before!
...Characterizing spatial heterogeneity using spatial bootstrapping with SEraster
SEraster aggregates single cell spatial omics data into square/hex pixels for scalable analysis...
Where did BWA come from?
My blog posts are often motivated by casual conversations with other scientists. This blog post is an example. Someone asked me how I thought of using a compression algorithm for alignment in
On the definition of pangenome
Historically, the term “pan-genome” (or more often “pangenome” in recent literature) was first coined by Sigaux in 2000 for a purpose distinc...
Speeding sourmash the heck up
Faster things are always nice, right?
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