Last week in the blogs
Another week, another list of favorite blog posts…
Fun
- The forensic astrophysics of Superman (Built on Facts)
Genetics
- Genetic signatures of recent human evolution (Genetic Future)
- Overstating the obvious (John Hawks)
- Signals of recent positive selection in a worldwide sample of human populations…maybe (Gene Expression)
- African origins and phenotypic variance (John Hawks)
Genome analysis
- What if everything you thought you knew about the genome was wrong? (Discovering Biology in a Digital World)
- Challenges with data quality, sharing and versioning in next-generation sequencing (Byte Size Biology)
High performance computing
- Google searches for the holy grail of Python performance (Ars Technica)
- Solid state disks (Joel on Software)
- GPU Supercomputers (Statistical Modeling)
Programming
- Don’t like it? Code it yourself! (Coding Horror)
Reviewing
- Signing reviews and even publishing them? (Building Confidence)
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