PolITiGenomics

The Power of R

Thursday, January 8th, 2009 Posted in genomics, IT | 1 Comment »

There is a good story in The New York Times about the R statistical programming language entitled Data Analysts Captivated by R’s Power. Analysts are using R more and more ... Read more..

SOLiD2SRF

Thursday, September 18th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

In a previous post, I discussed the sequence read format (SRF), the implementation of the SRF specification for Illumina/Solexa data, and potential implementations for Roche/454 and AB SOLiD data. Well, ... Read more..

reCAPTCHA on comments

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 Posted in charity, genomics, IT, politics | No Comments »

I've been getting a lot of spam comments on the blog so I added a CAPTCHA to comment posting. Specifically, I have added CAPTCHA's from the reCAPTCHA project which ... Read more..

454 XLR-HD

Thursday, June 12th, 2008 Posted in genomics, IT | 8 Comments »

The next upgrade of the 454 FLX platform is called Titanium. The previous name gave a better indication of what the upgrade entails: XLR-HD which is short for eXtra ... Read more..

Patenting the A-Bomb

Friday, March 28th, 2008 Posted in politics | No Comments »

As you may have intuited from some previous posts, I am a big proponent of free software (or free/libre/open source software (FLOSS)). For many involved in this arena, the ... Read more..