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
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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 ...
Virtual Cell literature dump
There is a lot of new work coming out relevant to predicting transcriptomic responses to perturbation. I’m way behind on reading. Since things are heating up, and I got a job doing something totally d...
Brief thoughts on: iNaturalist
Let me say first: I was wrong! My profile shows that I created my account at iNaturalist in August 2008, the year that the site was launched. I created a lot of accounts in those days. At the time, th...
We predict that the transcript abundance from the gene we are knocking down will (checks notes) decrease
The problem with gene-wise characterization of genetic interventions...
Mean squared error for estimates of differential expression
Bias-variance tradeoffs for virtual cell evals are weird...
Thoughts on generative AI contributions as an Open Source project maintainer
<p>To be clear up front, these are my personal opinions right now, and while they will influence any future policy I have a hand in writing, they are not the position of the Biopython Project or the O...
Using R/anomalize to identify delays in games of Australian Rules football
In which we generate a dataset of game durations, do a little exploratory data analysis and then try to identify unusual instances and their causes. In my Twitter-whinge-post, I mentioned that one of ...
Review of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s Obituary for Dr. James Watson
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...