The Quickening
In a paper titled “THEOREMS FOR A PRICE: Tomorrow’s Semi-Rigorous Mathematics Culture” published in 1993, mathematician Doron Zeilberger wrote: There are writings on the wall that, n...
Creating custom (non-Font Awesome) icons for a Jekyll-based website
This one is pretty niche even by my standards. Notes largely for my own benefit, but they may be useful if you: I’ll assume that you have git-cloned jekyll-theme-chirpy, run bundle and are able ...
State of the Blog
<p>ChatGPT came out in November 2022 and it has completely changed the Internet. In my post Learning about ChatGPT via ChatGPT I had prompted: "Will ChatGPT replace Google?" to which the model back th...
Using enadownloader to download fastqs from the ENA
<p>I wanted to download fastq files for a long list of SRR accessions from the <a href="https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/home">ENA</a> today.</p><p>I realised I could use the <a href="https://av...
ONT read QC strategies for assembly
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P2 Solo announcement and the trade-offs of a more stable ONT
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Scale-able defense
Fish-scale geckos, Geckolepis spp., are small and arboreal lizards endemic to Madagascar and the Comoro Islands. The base coloration of the fish-scaled gecko is generally chestnut-cream with darker/b...
Evaluating ONT barcode combinations
<p>When using native barcoding kits from ONT we have noticed some low frequency miss-assignments between barcodes/samples. Now we don’t know if this is an issue from the wet lab side (cross cont...
Directional markers in R/leaflet
So you have used the excellent exiftool to extract all of the GPS-related information from a directory of photos in JPG format and write to a CSV file: You’ve used R/leaflet to plot coordinates ...
Yes, you can use a single stick of DDR5 for bioinformatics and data analysis
<h4 style="text-align: left;">INTRO</h4><p>DRAM prices skyrocketed 171% in 2025 [<a href="https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/dram-prices-surge-171-percent-year-over-year-ai-demand-drives-...