In which I get a nice surprise.
A science blog, by a scientist, mostly about computational biology and plant science, but a little rambly in places.
Wednesday, 25 July 2012
Thursday, 19 July 2012
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.
Wednesday, 18 July 2012
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.
Saturday, 7 July 2012
23 And Me And Me: Part 1
In which I cave in to curiosity, and get myself genotyped.
Labels:
23andMe,
bioinformatics,
biology,
data,
DNA,
genome,
genotyping,
GWAS,
science
Sunday, 1 July 2012
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.
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