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As a bioinformatics person that's spent time in and out of industry/academia, I agree with some of the article's thesis. While I don't think LLMs or AI are going away, I do think i…

Yeah, I definitely do something similar with my personal projects. I come from more of a hardware & environmental engineering background and we were always taught that projects wer…

I wonder if the same thing happened with--or is happening at--NSF? I know researchers that did not get funding for quantitative ecology fellowships or grants. After back channeling…

Pretty cool bioinformatics algorithm to speed up what was traditionally a dynamic Burrows-Wheeler Transform. Interested to see where this gets implemented outside of benchmarking i…

Thanks for the perspective. This makes me think I was a bit quick to judge their methodologies.

It's somewhat interesting, but the authors' conclusions are a bit odd given their data. They acknowledge that fame is potentially confounding: Risk factors (impulsivity, substance …

Might be coming soon based on this: https://docs.rustfs.com/features/replication/

Outside bioconductor or the tidyverse in R can be just as unstable due to CRAN's package requirements.

This is a non-issue with Polars dataframes to_pandas() method. You get all the performance of Polars for cleaning large datasets, and to_pandas() gives you backwards compatibility …

> Life's two most fundamental properties are homeostasis and reproduction. > The loss of these two combined with its parasitic nature makes this cell a form on non-life. This is a …

For all the folks saying, "Isn't this just a virus?" The actual paper states that the genome encodes transfer RNA's and ribosomal RNA's. I think that's a really important biologica…

If you're interested in this topic, I'd highly recommend checking out Michigan State's E coli Long-term Evolution Experiment: https://lenski.mmg.msu.edu/ecoli/index.html

Yeah I think this is definitely the future. Recently, I too have spent considerable time on probabilistic hyper-graph models in certain domains of science. Maybe it _is_ the next b…

Sometimes I miss the benchwork, but moving into bioinformatics/data science full-time has been much better for my physical and mental health.

Countable is a relative term in microbiology. I like that the author stuck to the phrase "countable colonies", since colony forming units are not really "countable as cells". Allan…

> Meet MemMachine, an open-source memory layer for advanced AI agents. It enables AI-powered applications to learn, store, and recall data and preferences from past sessions to enr…

>The replication crisis is a growing concern. This! The amount of clinicians I know who simply read the abstract of a case study, with no real statistical interpretation of results…

I agree with all of this. I've worked in optical engineering, bioinformatics, and data science writ large for over a decade, knowing the data collection process is foundational to …

This MCP agent still doesn't defend the statistically illiterate from themselves.

This professor was, quite literally, on a teaching only contract.

I recently made the transition from academia to industry (also a PhD holder). I would echo a lot of what other commenters said about learning python and the associated data science…

"Grant Applications: Very specific academic "skill" which is intimately tied to the bureaucracy of the university system of your particular country or region. It also has a lot to …