damurdock

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by damurdock 10y ago
I would recommend talking to a local genetic counselor. They may be able to find a genomics core that will fit your needs, and they will be able to help you interpret that data in a medically relevant way.
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by damurdock 10y ago
As a heads up, like the commenter on your blog mentioned, you can write to `/dev/rdisk?` to speed up your transfer. You can also view dd's progress by using pv (available in Homebrew) like: `pv /path/to/image.i
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by damurdock 10y ago
FASTR specifically applies to research being published in peer-reviewed journals and specifically excludes: >classified research, research resulting in works that generate revenue or royalties for authors (such as books) or patentable di
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by damurdock 10y ago
How was the process of signing up for the PGP? I've been interested in doing it before, but wasn't sure if it would be a major hassle or more of an in-and-out of the doctor thing. Also I'm impressed at the amount of data, I e
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by damurdock 10y ago
We're still years off from sequencing at home for anyone other than dedicated biohackers. The MinION is really cool, but it's very much an advanced researcher's tool. Honestly, if you're interested in having your genome
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by damurdock 10y ago
I think they just care whether or not you're making money with the site period. As in, money that could potentially go towards a paid certificate.
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by damurdock 11y ago
Human Genome patents are no longer recognized in the US[0], but my understanding is that they were used to protect genetic tests and treatments. For example, Myriad Genomics held patents against the BRCA genes (which can indicate breast can
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by damurdock 11y ago
Human Genome patents are no longer recognized in the United States of America. https://www.genomeweb.com/clinical-genomics/us-supreme-court...
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by damurdock 11y ago
Pathogen identification is indeed a very exciting application for NGS. In case you're interested, here[0] is a paper about a tool called SURPI (Sequence-based Ultra-Rapid Pathogen Identification) which was designed for that purpose. Al
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by damurdock 11y ago
My family (rural SE US) uses Wildblue (now Exede) satellite internet. It works better than the dial-up alternative surely, but it falls flat in terms of speed, cost, reliability (you must maintain LOS, so rain, tree growth, and sometimes ve
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by damurdock 12y ago
The whole "embedded programming is scary and impossible" sentiment seems to be pretty common these days. I mean, it's impressive, but well within the reach of an interested nation-state or even a skilled hobbyist like Sprite_
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by damurdock 12y ago
Digging through the github org a bit: "The library builds and runs for the Xbox 360, PS3, PS4, nVidia Shield, iOS, Mac OSX, MacOS, Android, OpenWatcom for MSDOS, OpenWatcom for Windows, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008, Visual St
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by damurdock 12y ago
Since someone already posted "Spandrels", I'll go with "How Not to be a Bioinformatician" by Manuel Corpas, Segun Fatumo, and Reinhard Schneider[0]. It's a humorous takedown of very common problems in Bioinform
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by damurdock 12y ago
Does it run in standard VirtualBox?
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by damurdock 12y ago
damurdock$ file /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome: Mach-O executable i386 damurdock$
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by damurdock 12y ago
Reddit's programmer subs are pretty nice, although they tend to be inactive for smaller languages/tools/topics. Do people still use IRC? Where is active these days?
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by damurdock 12y ago
Mmm, homebrewed cider... But seriously, I really like this idea. You should definitely PR this into Homebrew though.
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by damurdock 12y ago
Just a side note, there's a software called "Unchecky" that will automatically uncheck most "Free Toolbar!" installs. But you're right, it's kind of staggering going from "sudo apt-get update &&am
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by damurdock 12y ago
I'm reminded a bit of http://www.bvp.com/portfolio/antiportfolio , a collection of companies that applied to Bessemer Venture Partners for VC funds, were denied, and went on to make it big.
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by damurdock 12y ago
I don't think any of us are qualified to make that decision, really (unless you're an expert in epidemics). The people spending their entire lives studying these kinds of outbreaks are saying that quarantine is unnecessary, so I&#
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by damurdock 12y ago
What happens if, say, a user loses their key? Or the delivery mechanism fails after the account is made unavailable?
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by damurdock 12y ago
I also use Crashplan. The software is nice, although there are (Crashplan) ads if you aren't a paid subscriber.