There was lots of discussion on twitter yesterday about Graham Coop’s paper with Peter Ralph (or vice versa), on The geography of recent genetic ancestry across Europe, particularly regarding the FAQ they’d created. I was eager to take a look, and, it’s slightly embarrassing to say, I first did a search to see if they’d […]
I just finished an interactive eQTL plot using D3, in preparation for my talk on interactive graphics at the ENAR meeting next week. The code (in CoffeeScript) is available at github. But beware: it’s pretty awful. The hardest part was setting up the data files. Well, that plus the fact that I just barely know […]
I was flipping though the contents of G3 and saw this paper, which includes Jim Cheverud as an author. I poked through the paper, and my eye was attracted to the following figure. These are supposed to be functions, but some weird smoother was used,...
Maybe it’s just that I’m stupid and haven’t been paying proper attention to Rafa’s work in the past decade, but microarray data have really been kicking my ass the last few weeks. Here are a few of the lessons that I’ve re-learned. Lesson 1: What the hell is that? Many (or all) of my interesting [...]
I went to a great talk today by David Goldstein, which I might write about further later since he said many of things of considerable interest. But I had to quickly point to an interesting paper he mentioned: Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled [...]
