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My writing about bioinformatics, data science and academia
Jul 22, 2025 news Human-specific gene expansions and brain evolution Our newest article is out! I am excited to share that our newest paper titled “Human-specific gene expansions contribute to brain evolution” has been published in Cell. Sep 30, 2024 bioinformatics Step-by-step tutorial to construct haplotype networks with PopArt Bioinformatics diaries No. 2 In our recent bioRxiv pre-print, we drew inspiration from a previous study to use haplotype networks to investigate signatures of balancing selection in the duplicated human gene, CD8B. Sep 18, 2023 bioinformatics How to set up your local BLAST nucleotide database Bioinformatics diaries No. 1 I have been working as a bioinformatician for ~8 years, but for some reason I never had to set up my own local nucleotide Blast database. Until now. Mar 31, 2020 bioinformatics My essential toolbox for bioinformatics - an update Conda and Snakemake More than a year after the original post, I decided to update this blog post with two other essential tools for the modern bioinformatician. Spoiler alert! These tools are Conda/Bioconda and Snakemake. My life without them would be incomplete, so... Jul 6, 2018 bioinformatics My essential toolbox for bioinformatics My personal favorites Nowadays, almost every scientific endeavor relies on computers to process and analyze data. Even if you are working mostly on the bench, you can really benefit from running your own computational pipelines to process and analyze your data.