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.
A science blog, by a scientist, mostly about computational biology and plant science, but a little rambly in places.
Wednesday, 18 July 2012
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.
Saturday, 23 June 2012
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.
Sunday, 22 April 2012
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.
Friday, 16 March 2012
Jambiguity
In which a blog post is brought to you by the letter 'J', but should probably have been 'X'-rated.
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