Sep 30, 2014 — NeuroSynth to Cognitive Atlas Mapping — NeuroSynth is a database that maps functional activation coordinates to behavioral terms, based on the frequency of the term in the paper.  The Cognitive Atlas is an ontology of cognitive terms, specifically for neuroscience.  I wanted to filter my NeuroSynth... Read more

Sep 23, 2014 — What is the purpose of the BMI student? — I’m finishing up the primary research for my PhD, and as I start to go through my list of “fun projects” to try, I am terribly aware of the big picture.  Part of growing up (as a researcher) is not... Read more

Sep 22, 2014 — KEGG Human (hsa) Database for R — This morning I was trying to link some of my genes to pathways, so of course my first stop was KEGG. What in the world is KEGG? Kegg is a database of pathways. The pathway identifiers for human are numbered... Read more

Sep 18, 2014 — Basic awk to tweak data files! — Making an Annotation File for Genes I had the task to make a little annotation file (for use with vcftools) to annotate a big list of SNPs with genes, because I don’t speak “SNP” language. This turned into having fun... Read more