Posts Tagged ‘from’

cloudHQ – Sync and Integrate Google Drive, Gmail, Dropbox, Box, OneDrive, Evernote, Basecamp

Tuesday, May 13th, 2014

https://www.cloudhq.net/dropbox

correlations – “stay away from bedsheets”

Tuesday, May 13th, 2014

need adjusted p values after multiple hypothesis correction

Spurious Correlations
http://www.tylervigen.com

retroelement functional recruitment

Monday, May 12th, 2014

DUX4 binding to #retroelements creates promoters that are active… Highlights #chipseq binding sites in #repeats
http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.1003947 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=24278031
PLoS Genet. 2013 Nov;9(11):e1003947. doi:
10.1371/journal.pgen.1003947. Epub 2013 Nov 21.
DUX4 binding to retroelements creates promoters that are active in FSHD muscle and testis.
Young JM, Whiddon JL, Yao Z, Kasinathan B, Snider L, Geng LN, Balog J, Tawil R, van der Maarel SM, Tapscott SJ.

cell free DNA circulating for cancer

Monday, May 12th, 2014

NYT recently ran an article as well:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/08/business/cancer-analysis-tools-circumvent-biopsies.html

http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v20/n4/abs/nm.3511.html

An ultrasensitive method for quantitating circulating tumor DNA with broad patient coverage
http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nm.3519.html

http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/6/224/224ra24
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1213261

http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/4/162/162ra154.full
DIAGNOSTICS: Detection of Chromosomal Alterations in the Circulation of Cancer Patients with Whole-Genome Sequencing

Twitter data grants

Sunday, May 11th, 2014

https://blog.twitter.com/2014/introducing-twitter-data-grants

And now a video game for cancer genomics !

Sunday, May 11th, 2014

we can play in meetings, and tell people we are working on cancer research.
http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2014/02/04/download-our-revolutionary-mobile-game-to-help-speed-up-cancer-research

Nature Genetics calls for data analysis papers

Friday, May 9th, 2014

Call for… analysis papers: nice description of hypothesis generation v. validation & 3 types of #network robustness
http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v46/n3/full/ng.2914.html

Call for data analysis papers
Nature Genetics 46, 213 (2014) doi:10.1038/ng.2914Published online 26 February 2014
Deadline expired but maybe still relevant…

BigData MSc

Friday, May 9th, 2014

http://www.rhul.ac.uk/computerscience/prospectivestudents/postgraduatetaught/bigdata.aspx

Another VAT!

Friday, May 9th, 2014

Variant Association Tools for Quality Control and Analysis of Large-Scale Sequence and Genotyping Array Data

http://www.cell.com/ajhg/abstract/S0002-9297(14)00176-1

vs

http://papers.gersteinlab.org/papers/vat

Phevor Combines Multiple Biomedical Ontologies for Accurate Identification of Disease-Causing Alleles in Single Individuals and Small Nuclear Families

Friday, May 9th, 2014

http://www.cell.com/ajhg/abstract/S0002-9297(14)00112-8