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The two-body opportunity | Bits of DNA
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Reviews and commentary on computational biology by Lior Pachter. October 10, 2014 in expository. This year half of the Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser, who happen to be both a personal and professional couple. Interestingly, they are not the first but rather the. And even if one presumes that it is, the term is an oxymoron because in physics the problem is solved whereas in academia it is used in a way that implies it is. Assigns to each string a valu...
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R Chronicle: February 2013
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Sunday, February 24, 2013. Large correlation in parallel. A little improvement to the bigcor function proposed on Rmazing. To compute huge correlation matrix in R, I made the function work in parallel using all the CPU cores available on the machine. The code is here. Here is a benchmark of the 2 functions on my machine with 8 cores:. Links to this post. Location: Cambridge, UK. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Large correlation in parallel. View my complete profile. Simple theme. Theme images by chuwy.
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Intro to Genetic Genealogy | Family Pastimes
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DNA Testing Companies →. February 22, 2015 · 11:48 am. Intro to Genetic Genealogy. These animations from The Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation (no relation! Are a really gentle place to get started. Watch them all and you’ll have a much better understanding of how DNA testing can help find cousins and build family trees. Intro to Genetic (Molecular) Genealogy. Http:/ www.smgf.org/education/animations/intro.jspx. Four types of DNA. Http:/ www.smgf.org/education/animations/four types.jspx.
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R Chronicle: September 2012
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Friday, September 21, 2012. Religious restrictions index: how do countries compare? The Guardian DataBlog published yesterday an interesting article exploring graphically the religious intolerance across the world. The data are coming from a report published by Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion and Public Life. I like the philosophy DataBlog a lot, providing the raw data for everyone to look at. The data are composed of two data type:. The R code is the following:. Links to this post.
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Omics! Omics!: September 2014
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A computational biologists personal views on new technologies and publications on genomics and proteomics and their impact on drug discovery. Tuesday, September 09, 2014. Reanalysis Lays Bare MinION Review's Spectacular Flaws. T and submit it to a journal. Links to this post. Friday, September 05, 2014. Oxford Takes Some Flak, Fires Back. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Reanalysis Lays Bare MinION Reviews Spectacular F. Oxford Takes Some Flak, Fires Back. About a...
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Omics! Omics!: February 2014
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A computational biologists personal views on new technologies and publications on genomics and proteomics and their impact on drug discovery. Wednesday, February 26, 2014. NGS Saves A Young Life. Links to this post. Monday, February 24, 2014. A Sunset for Draft Genomes? Links to this post. Thursday, February 13, 2014. How will you deal with GRCh38? So, a significant advance, but a bit unpleasant one if you are in the space. You now have several ugly options before you with regard to your prior data m...
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race/history/evolution notes: R. A. Fisher on group selection in humans
http://racehist.blogspot.com/2015/03/r-fisher-on-group-selection-in-humans.html
R A Fisher on group selection in humans. Fisher, who's been called. The most important geneticist of the 20th century", like Hamilton. Saw a significant role for group selection in human evolution. AWF Edwards once confusedly mentioned. There would, however, be some warrant on historical grounds for saying that the term Natural Selection should include not only the selective survival of individuals of the same species, but of mutually competing species of the same genus or family. The relative unimpo...
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race/history/evolution notes: Moral parochialism and contextual contingency
http://racehist.blogspot.com/2015/08/moral-parochialism-and-contextual.html
Moral parochialism and contextual contingency. Moral parochialism and contextual contingency across seven societies. Human moral judgement may have evolved to maximize the individual's welfare given parochial culturally constructed moral systems. If so, then moral condemnation should be more severe when transgressions are recent and local, and should be sensitive to the pronouncements of authority figures. Of interest (and contra those who would predict Westerners would be the outliers):. The Unitarian C...
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race/history/evolution notes: Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon genomes from East England reveal British migration history
http://racehist.blogspot.com/2015/07/iron-age-and-anglo-saxon-genomes-from.html
Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon genomes from East England reveal British migration history. On some ancient DNA work in England is up. Researchers sequenced samples from seven early and middle Anglo-Saxon period and three late Iron Age (presumably Celtic) skeletons. Comparing the relative number of rare alleles shared with the Dutch and Spanish samples, the researchers estimate 30% Anglo-Saxon admixture in the present-day East English and 20% in the Scottish and Welsh. So I have little doubt POBI samples from E...
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