A Friday round-up

[This article was first published on What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here)
Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't.

Just a brief selection of items that caught my eye this week. Note that this is a Friday as opposed to Friday, lest you mistake this for a new, regular feature.

1. R/statistics

  • ggbio
  • A new Bioconductor package which builds on the excellent ggplot graphics library, for the visualization of biological data.

  • R development master class
  • Hadley Wickham recently presented this course on R package development for my organisation. I was on parental leave at the time, otherwise I would have attended for sure.

2. Bioinformatics in the media
DNA Sequencing Caught in Deluge of Data

I described this NYT article as a “surprisingly-good intro article“. Michael Eisen described it as “kind of silly“.

I think we’re both right. Michael’s perspective is that of an expert in high-throughput sequencing data; I’m just pleased to see an introduction to bioinformatics for non-specialists in a mainstream newspaper. And I note that they have corrected the figure caption which offended Michael.

As to the “deluge”: yes, there are other sciences that generate more data and yes, we probably don’t need to archive/analyse a lot of the raw data. However, I’d contend that the basic premise of the article is correct: we are sequencing faster than we can analyse. The solution, obviously, is more bioinformaticians.


Filed under: bioinformatics, R, research diary, statistics, web resources

To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate » R.

R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials about learning R and many other topics. Click here if you're looking to post or find an R/data-science job.
Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't.

Never miss an update!
Subscribe to R-bloggers to receive
e-mails with the latest R posts.
(You will not see this message again.)

Click here to close (This popup will not appear again)