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Hi, I'm Vanessa, a Principal Computer Scientist.
Building schedulers, containers, and cloudy things, with a love for learning and new experiences. -- about me

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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

Create Cytogenetic Maps from Gene Lists I have two or more lists of genes that I want to compare.  If I compare strings directly, I could run into trouble if there is slight variation (e.g., SLC6A4 vs. SLC6A9).  I could also look at functional annotation, but... Read more

Look up Probe IDs with Bioconductor This is one of those “I’ll store this here for safekeeping” posts, specifically for a snippet of code to seamlessly translate between gene probe IDs. I started doing genomic analyses at the beginning of the calendar year, 2014. Before delving... Read more