Viewing profile — damurdock

I would recommend talking to a local genetic counselor. They may be able to find a genomics core that will fit your needs, and they will be able to help you interpret that data in …

As a heads up, like the commenter on your blog mentioned, you can write to `/dev/rdisk?` to speed up your transfer. You can also view dd's progress by using pv (available in Homebr…

FASTR specifically applies to research being published in peer-reviewed journals and specifically excludes: >classified research, research resulting in works that generate revenue …

FASTR specifically applies to research being published in peer-reviewed journals and specifically excludes: >classified research, research resulting in works that generate revenue …

How was the process of signing up for the PGP? I've been interested in doing it before, but wasn't sure if it would be a major hassle or more of an in-and-out of the doctor thing. …

We're still years off from sequencing at home for anyone other than dedicated biohackers. The MinION is really cool, but it's very much an advanced researcher's tool. Honestly, if …

I think they just care whether or not you're making money with the site period. As in, money that could potentially go towards a paid certificate.

Human Genome patents are no longer recognized in the US[0], but my understanding is that they were used to protect genetic tests and treatments. For example, Myriad Genomics held p…

Human Genome patents are no longer recognized in the United States of America. https://www.genomeweb.com/clinical-genomics/us-supreme-court...

Pathogen identification is indeed a very exciting application for NGS. In case you're interested, here[0] is a paper about a tool called SURPI (Sequence-based Ultra-Rapid Pathogen …

My family (rural SE US) uses Wildblue (now Exede) satellite internet. It works better than the dial-up alternative surely, but it falls flat in terms of speed, cost, reliability (y…

The whole "embedded programming is scary and impossible" sentiment seems to be pretty common these days. I mean, it's impressive, but well within the reach of an interested nation-…

Digging through the github org a bit: "The library builds and runs for the Xbox 360, PS3, PS4, nVidia Shield, iOS, Mac OSX, MacOS, Android, OpenWatcom for MSDOS, OpenWatcom for Win…

Since someone already posted "Spandrels", I'll go with "How Not to be a Bioinformatician" by Manuel Corpas, Segun Fatumo, and Reinhard Schneider[0]. It's a humorous takedown of ver…

Does it run in standard VirtualBox?

damurdock$ file /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome: Mach-O executable i386 damurdock$ file …

Reddit's programmer subs are pretty nice, although they tend to be inactive for smaller languages/tools/topics. Do people still use IRC? Where is active these days?

Mmm, homebrewed cider... But seriously, I really like this idea. You should definitely PR this into Homebrew though.

Just a side note, there's a software called "Unchecky" that will automatically uncheck most "Free Toolbar!" installs. But you're right, it's kind of staggering going from "sudo apt…

I'm reminded a bit of http://www.bvp.com/portfolio/antiportfolio , a collection of companies that applied to Bessemer Venture Partners for VC funds, were denied, and went on to mak…

I don't think any of us are qualified to make that decision, really (unless you're an expert in epidemics). The people spending their entire lives studying these kinds of outbreaks…

What happens if, say, a user loses their key? Or the delivery mechanism fails after the account is made unavailable?

I also use Crashplan. The software is nice, although there are (Crashplan) ads if you aren't a paid subscriber.