The Colours, Man! The Colours!

In which I take a short diversion into colour theory, and share some code to automate colour selection for class data.

23 And Me and Me: Part 3

In which I get a nice surprise.

On Reciprocal Best BLAST Hits

In which I narrowly avoid a rant. Reciprocal best BLAST hits can improve the quality of your searching, and are a good way to find candidate orthologues. There's evidence and everything.

23 And Me And Me: Part 2

In which the most difficult part of getting yourself genotyped turns out to be dealing with shopkeepers, and I impress the eight-year-old me.

23 And Me And Me: Part 1

In which I cave in to curiosity, and get myself genotyped.

Dead fish, and multiple-test correction

In which a salmon is resurrected, but not enough to really be significant.  Why finding 20 positive results when your P-value threshold suggests you should only see 10 isn't necessarily anything to be excited about.  And an introduction to Bonferroni and Benjamini-Hochberg multiple test correction.

The Base Rate Fallacy in Effector-Finding

In which an oft-overlooked bit of genome-mining statistics is considered, and your enjoyment of a holiday could depend heavily on other people's hygiene.

What is this 'effector' thing, anyway?

In which I opine about the definition of (plant) pathogen effectors.

Not a facelift, just a bit of Botox

In which I decide that even I can't face reading blogposts in the old template style, so make a change.

Jambiguity

In which a blog post is brought to you by the letter 'J', but should probably have been 'X'-rated.