@ruggedtextile

Bioinformatics, drug discovery & Arsenal FC

Joined February 2008
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Juho's bus route. #ONAReception
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Stephen Turner@strnr28 Apr 2016
Pooling across cells to normalize single-cell RNA sequencing data with many zero counts genomebiology.biomedcentral.…
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Pedro Beltrao@pedrobeltrao22 Jan 2016
Replying to @michaelhoffman
@michaelhoffman @mbeisen @NEJM I don't remember feeling insulted by an editorial before
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Noah Lorang@noahhlo22 Dec 2015
What's always worth investing in? Infrastructure. (or: how I try to spend @basecamp's resources wisely) m.signalvnoise.com/infrastru…
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David Robinson@drob21 Dec 2015
Favorite feature in ggplot2 2.0.0: check_overlap = TRUE. geom_text just got easier! #rstats blog.rstudio.org/2015/12/21/…
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Open Targets@OpenTargets8 Dec 2015
Our new target validation platform integrates 21,800 targets over 8800 diseases! targetvalidation.org @gsk @sangerinstitute @emblebi
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Earn.com@earndotcom4 Dec 2015
Stop being a test subject, start monetizing your genome! Lease access to your DNA for BTC - and log all uses. github.com/joepickrell/genom…

GitHub - joepickrell/genome-server-21: Serve your genotypes and phenotypes via an API for satoshis

Serve your genotypes and phenotypes via an API for satoshis - joepickrell/genome-server-21

github.com
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Hadley Wickham@hadleywickham14 Oct 2015
How did I miss this? Great article on computing useful proportions when you have radically different n: varianceexplained.org/r/empi… by @drob

Understanding empirical Bayes estimation (using baseball statistics)

Which of these two proportions is higher: 4 out of 10, or 300 out of 1000? This sounds like a silly question. Obviously \(4/10=.4\), which is greater than \(300/1000=.3\).

varianceexplained.org
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Jim Hester@jimhester_14 Oct 2015
Replying to @JennyBryan
@JennyBryan @hadleywickham @drob See also biobroom (bioconductor.org/packages/bi…) newly included in @Bioconductor!
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Functional characterization of an OA #GWAS locus (rs9350591) - #eQTL data useless for identifying causal variant: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article…

Functional characterisation of the osteoarthritis susceptibility locus at chromosome 6q14.1 marked...

The arcOGEN genome-wide association study reported the rs9350591 C/T single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) as marking a region on chromosome 6q14.1 that is associated with hip osteoarthritis (OA) in...

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Pearl Freier
@PearlF2 Sep 2015
9/9 @harvardgsas panel @dgmacarthur Broad, Pfizer & Novartis 2discuss data analysis improving diagnosis & job advice bit.ly/1NYbImc
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Exciting new scheme from Gurdon Institute in Cambridge to 'match make' pharma and researchers cam.ac.uk/research/news/camb…

Cambridge researchers and pharma in innovative new consortium to develop and study early stage drugs

The Therapeutics Consortium, announced today, will connect the intellectual know-how of several large academic institutions with the drug-developing potential of the pharmaceutical industry, to...

cam.ac.uk
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Most people doing genomics not actually doing genomics wp.me/p4ik2k-5j

Most people doing genomics not actually doing genomics

CAMBRIDGE.  Most people who claim to be genomics researchers are not actually doing genomics at all, and instead are just sequencing things and calling it genomics, it has been found. “Genomi…

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Hadley Wickham@hadleywickham23 Jul 2015
How do I hate thee stringsAsFactors = TRUE? Let me count the ways #rstats
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Vaughan Bell@vaughanbell22 Jul 2015
'Rise in autism' is likely diagnostic substitution: ID diagnoses have fallen by same amount news.sciencemag.org/health/2…
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Jared Simpson@jaredtsimpson9 Jul 2015
Craig Venter helpfully puts Elon Musk's work in perspective. From amzn.com/B00KVI76ZS
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Tim Hubbard@timjph3 Jul 2015
Last chance to register: Networking Conference on Healthcare efficiency through Tech 13:00 Tuesday @KingsCollegeLon kingsconference.com/programm…
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Rail Haverhill@RailHaverhill6 Apr 2015
Sign the petition to reopen the railway from #Haverhill to #Cambridge railhaverhill.org.uk/petitio…
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John Finnemore@JohnFinnemore26 Jun 2015
Germans of Twitter! What is another exclamation of irritation or frustration like 'Mein Gott', but not 'Mein Gott'? No swears please. Danke!
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