New post: The hard part in becoming a command line wizard johndcook.com/blog/2019/02/1…

Useful and more accurate method of identifying candidate genes and SNPs from GWAS

Revisiting repo from previous project and wondering "Who wrote this garbage?" got me like:

In my experience data people pronounce it “data” but non-data people pronounce it “data.” RT if u agree

Is there an English word for this, too? Asking for a friend

We're giving away two tickets to Saturday's Homecoming game against Iowa. Want a chance to win? Just RT this and make sure you're following us.

Our lab has a new preprint out! We introduce our unsupervised method for predicting transcription factor footprints, incorporating DNase-seq data and PWMs. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Fall break = furry workmates

"Do not fall for the illusion that by preventing errors, you won't have errors to fix. The truth is, the cost of preventing errors is often far greater than the cost of fixing them." -- Ed Catmull

I'm delighted to announce the release of a brand new gnomAD dataset, v3, our first whole-genome call set natively aligned to GRCh38, containing 71,702 whole genomes: x.com/LFranciol/stat…. #ASHG19

We're giving away two tickets to Saturday's game against MSU! Just RT this and make sure you're following us for a chance to win. 🎟️

Our lab is looking to bring on board a few new postdocs! We are hiring two computational postdocs to work on IGVF (igvf.org) and RegulomeDB (regulomedb.org) and a wet lab postdoc to focus on a newly funded NCI project in the lab.

Python 3.11 is out! 🎉 This is one of the most exciting releases in a while, including significant speed upgrades and better error messages. Here's what's new: