written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-10-16
Just found out about OpenTrons, which is a company that produces open source robotic liquid handlers for less than $5000. In terms of research budgets, this is amazing!
While some may contend that... (read more)
(184 words, approximately 1 minute reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-10-12
It's been about 2 months since starting up with the GitHub lab notebooks for a project that I'm coordinating. Here's some thoughts on it.
Firstly, version control... (read more)
(402 words, approximately 3 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-10-11
I just saw an awesome pair of blog posts by Roger Peng and
written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-10-09 | tags: reproducibility data science
I found this set of slides by [Lorena Barba](http://lorenabarba.com): the Reproducible PI Manifesto. I love it, and I hope other PIs take it up!
Read on... (45 words, approximately 1 minute reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-10-08
I've been thinking back on my experience being on the SciPy 2016 Financial Aid committee, having myself received a full scholarship to attend SciPy 2015.
I had a chance to talk with two of the SciPy scholarship recipients. They belonged to a... (read more)
(258 words, approximately 2 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-09-27 | tags: data visualization data science
Which would you choose? Let's figure out which might be more useful.
Read on... (81 words, approximately 1 minute reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-09-22
I recently reviewed a paper for PLOS Computational Biology. This was my first ever scientific paper review, and so I did my best to be constructive and helpful to the authors, just as other reviewers were for my first lead author publication. I had... (read more)
(587 words, approximately 3 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-09-16 | tags: statistics bayesian data science
Uncertainty is part and parcel of the process of doing science; in effect it's a currency of science. What scientists do is essentially quantitatively... (read more)
(369 words, approximately 2 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-09-08
Reading up on Bayesian methods for analysis of high throughput measurement data, I saw this very promising paper by Johnson & Li.
In the abstract, there was a... (read more)
(204 words, approximately 2 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-09-06
A new UROP, Vivian Zhong, has joined the Runstadler lab! She is working with Islam and I on a project that is directly related to the broader problem of genotype-phenotype.
For this project, I decided to try and experiment with GitHub and... (read more)
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