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

Sep 17, 2014 — Learning about VCF (variant call format) file analysis — If you just want to learn from the scripts I’m working on: SCRIPTS And as a subset of this post, if you want to learn about using awk to work with text files What is variant analysis? We all know... Read more

Aug 28, 2014 — Self Organizing Maps (SOM) — I have a thing for dimensionality reduction.  One method in particular, the Self organizing map, is probably my favorite.  I made this tutorial for my lab, but I thought it would be useful to share with the world of the... Read more

Jul 30, 2014 — Randy Pausch: The Last Lecture — I want to draw attention to a video that most of us have seen at one time or another by an amazing professor of computer science at CMU, Randy Pausch.  To say that this man was amazing does not do him... Read more