Category Archives: Informatics

R makes NYT

Posted on 1/7/2009 by Moses

Nice: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07program.html

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Pair programming and microarrays

Posted on 7/9/2008 by Moses

Yesterday I met with folks at Lawrence Berkeley labs. The PI entered the room, full of energy and clearly ducking briefly out of the fray to speak with us. Part of the discussion revolved around microarray experiments. We’ve all heard … Continue reading →

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Z factor refactored

Posted on 11/11/2007 by Moses

I recently reread the original Z factor paper (Zhang et al). The Z factor is a measure of assay reliability and comes in two flavors: the Z’ factor, based entirely based on controls (those with and without the desired effect); … Continue reading →

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A better LSID, part 1

Posted on 4/30/2007 by Moses

Those of you familiar with bioinformatics might know about the Life Sciences Identifier (LSID) specification, which describes a URN-based identifier (think “primary key”) for life sciences data objects (genes, proteins, microarray experiments, radiology images, clinical trial study calendars, etc.). I … Continue reading →

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Agile bioinformatics paper

Posted on 6/18/2006 by Moses

I don’t know why I didn’t post this before, but at the end of last month BMC Bioinformatics posted a provisional version of our paper on agile software methods in bioinformatics. The good news is people seem to be reading … Continue reading →

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