A feed of the latest posts of Bioinformatics blogs around the world
<p>I started to learn bioinformatics because I needed to analyze public ChIP-seq data in 2012. That’s how I got to know <a href="https://liulab-dfci.github.io/" target="_blank">Shirley Liu&rsquo...
James Watson, who described himself as “not a racist in a conventional way”, has died at the age of 97. Below is a review of an obituary for Dr. James Watson published by Cold Spring Harbo...
<p>The rest of the UK and I have been watching <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m002csng/the-celebrity-traitors" rel="noopener noreffer " target="_blank">the Celebrity Traitors</a> over...
<p>During my work with single-cell RNA-seq data, I’ve often encountered confusion about PCA and specifically when to use the <code>center</code> and <code>scale</code> arguments in R’s <code>prcomp()<...
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<p>I asked ChatGPT this question one evening and working through the session was fun. Maybe it needs more fact-checking…I know some of my readers are fastidious enough to call me out if I’...
<p>This is a fantastic and comprehensive review on Cell-free DNA fragmentomics in cancer. Out in Cancer Cell by Denis Lo et al. In this review focused on cell-free DNA (cfDNA) fragmentomics ...
<p>It has been 15 years since I started this blog! As typical with many of my anniversary posts, I reflect on things that I have started to do and/or have learned since the last time I wrote an annive...
<p>Here’s a wee puzzle: A mature Open Data focused journal (“Journal A”), owned and launched by an company or Institute (“Institute B”), developed into the flagship of an Academic Publisher (“Publishe...
<p>I’m really pleased to say I’m an author on a new article in Nature Cancer discussing the potential of using urine-based liquid biopsies for cancer detection, particularly through the an...