Archive for March, 2016

ambry freely providing aggregate allele freq data 10000 sequenced cancer patients

Sunday, March 13th, 2016

https://www.genomeweb.com/sequencing-technology/ambry-freely-providing-aggregate-allele-frequency-data-10000-sequenced-cancer?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Cancer%20Bulletin:%20Ambry%20Freely%20Providing%20Aggregate%20Allele-Frequency%20Data%20From%2010,000%20Sequenced%20Cancer%20Patients%20-%2003/09/2016%2003:50:00%20PM

Fitbit Alta: Fitness-tracking goes super-stylish

Sunday, March 13th, 2016

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/fitbit-alta-fitness-tracking-goes-1381694135615542.html

Raising of Chicago – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Saturday, March 12th, 2016

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago

George Perkins Marsh – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Saturday, March 12th, 2016

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Perkins_Marsh

Heart of the Andes | 09.95 | Work of Art | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Saturday, March 12th, 2016

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/09.95/

Edward Tufte forum: London Underground maps (+ worldwide subway maps)

Saturday, March 12th, 2016

https://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00005W

Methane Has Never Looked So Beautiful – The New York Times

Saturday, March 12th, 2016

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/08/science/methane-has-never-looked-so-beautiful.html?smid=tw-nytimesscience&smtyp=cur&_r=0

Heights of presidents and presidential candidates of the United States – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Friday, March 11th, 2016

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heights_of_presidents_and_presidential_candidates_of_the_United_States

EM algorithm

Friday, March 11th, 2016

What’s the EM #algorithm?
http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v26/n8/full/nbt1406.html Description of its essence in simple contexts (ie coin toss) & as soft version of kmeans

What is the expectation maximization algorithm? : Article : Nature Biotechnology

Primer
Nature Biotechnology 26, 897 – 899 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nbt1406

Chuong B Do & Serafim Batzoglou

Abstract
The expectation maximization algorithm arises in many computational biology applications that involve probabilistic models. What is it good for, and how does it work?

without too much math

PLOS Genetics: Quantitative Trait Loci Identify Functional Noncoding Variation in Cancer

Friday, March 11th, 2016

http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1005826