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Archive for February, 2009

lsgmake-gap for GAPipeline-1.3

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 Posted in genomics, IT | 2 Comments »

I have just posted the latest version of lsgmake-gap, 0.12 (md5). This version of lsgmake-gap supports the additional Bustard targets introduced in GAPipeline-1.3 (it should still work with earlier versions ... Read more..

Young Investigator Profile: Li Ding

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

Genome Technology has done a Young Investigator Profile on my colleague at The Genome Center, Li Ding. The profile focuses on our efforts in cancer genomics. Read more..

Very gradual change we can believe in

Friday, February 20th, 2009 Posted in genomics, politics | No Comments »

A colleague pointed out the clever image to the right created by Mike Rosulek. Mike has set up a storefront on Zazzle to sell items with the image ... Read more..

My talk at AGBT

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 Posted in genomics | 4 Comments »

Several people have asked me to post my slides from AGBT. Given the type of slides I prepare, I thought that might be less than useful, so I recorded my ... Read more..

St. Louis Perl Mongers

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009 Posted in genomics, IT | 2 Comments »

Sorry for the late notice, but I will be giving a presentation tomorrow (Wednesday) night at the St. Louis Perl Mongers meeting. The meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. CST on ... Read more..

Darwin must die, long live Darwin

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

A couple of days ago, Carl Safina had an essay in The New York Times entitled Darwinism Must Die So That Evolution May Live that discusses the cult of personality ... Read more..

The scale up

Friday, February 6th, 2009 Posted in genomics, IT | 5 Comments »

It was announced this morning that we will be getting 21 more Illumina GA2 instruments, bringing our total to 35 at The Genome Center. No doubt it will be a ... Read more..