Can you say the name of this new bioinformatics method three times fast?

New in the journal Bioinformatics:

jNMFMA: a joint non-negative matrix factorization meta-analysis of transcriptomics data

JNMF stand for Joint Non-negative Matrix Factorization. Throw in some meta-analysis and randomly decide to make the 'J' lower-case as well as itacilized and you end up with the trips-off-the-tongue name of jNMFMA. Try saying it three-times fast! Actually, I had trouble pronouncing this just once.

How not to write a sequence assembly comparison paper →

A great post by Keith Robison in which he casts his expert eye in the direction of a new pre-print published at F1000 Research.

In the preprint there is a a very ill-designed figure, which should be a table, that prints badly, with the font much too light for the unnecessarily heavy background. Displaying a four quadrant image adds nothing; a neatly organized table could display more information in a far more readable format allowing easy comparison. Even if the design were defensible, the content is embarassingly out-of-date, I'd estimate by close to two years.

The post ends with a great coda.

If cars were made by bioinformaticians... →

Saw this on Twitter today:

Guillaume has some fun with this topic on his blog (The Grand Locus). Obviously I liked the first item on the list the most ('Cars would have nice names'), this included:

Here we present CaЯ (vehiCle for chAnging geo-cooЯdinates), a fast and accurate tool as an alternative to existing vehicles.

Genome Assembly: the art of trying to make one BIG thing from millions of very small things

Here are the slides from a talk I gave this week at UC Davis (also embedded below). This talk was for a group of graduate students (from different backgrounds). 

Note, because I tend to make very visual slides which don't always work well in isolation (you need to hear my sparkling narrative!), I have taken time to duplicate many slides and embed notes to indicate approximately what I would have said to explain the slide.