Computational biology and genomics
I reached a million views on 2017 September 27th. Near the start of September, I had wondered if I would reach a million before my 7th anniversary, which is today. I used the traffic to this site to predict when I would hit the mark. Not the best fit. Use only 2017 data to predict….
Last updated: 2023/07/12 There used to a Q and A series on Biostars (the link I had no longer works and I can’t find it anymore) that asked well-known bioinformaticians what tools they use for their work. They were well-known because they were the developers behind popular bioinformatics tools. I’m not sure why it’s gone…
I was recommended to have some sort of cover art on my thesis, so I decided to make my cover using the awesome Gviz package. Below is all the code for how I generated my thesis cover art. Suggestions and comments most welcome!
As the first post of this year, I’d like to wish everyone a Happy New Year. 2014 was a year where I focused much more on reading papers, hence the lack of posts on this blog (for those interested in what I have been reading, you can check out my incomplete notes on my second…
I started this blog quite unspectacularly four years ago on this exact day. The real motivation behind starting this blog was that I wanted to do something (anything!) with the web space I purchased over a year ago in 2009. I had egotistically purchased the domain davetang.org1 because it was on my list-of-things-to-do-in-life2. But that…
Updated 2014 September 19th to include a method that does not require sorting. The h-index is an index that is calculated by measuring the number of articles, say $$n$$, that has at least $$n$$ citations. If you published 10 articles, and each of them had four citations, your h-index would be four, since there are…
I’ve seen talks over the years where the speaker shows a bar chart with the number of articles in PubMed that contain a certain keyword and tallied per year. In most of the cases the speaker was trying to illustrate the growing number of articles that contain the keyword. Here I try to do the…
I created davetang.org on the 24th of April 2009 just for the sake of buying a domain with my name in it. Realising that I was and am paying for a service, I decided to actually make use of my web space. But it really started to become handy when I decided to pursue a…
Kobe Byrant and the Lakers (11-14) aren’t doing as well as I had expected given the team they acquired in the off season. Everyone likes to point out that when he scores over x number of points (e.g. 30), the Lakers have lost more than they have won. So I took his stats for this…
Just over two years ago I started this blog and now I’m up to my 100th post! I didn’t have any particular aims or goals, I just wanted to document and share some of the things I was learning during my PhD and this still holds. Thanks to a flawed Google PageRank algorithm, my blog…