Rapid testing has been a powerful tool to control COVID-19 outbreaks around the world (see Iceland, Germany, …). While many countries support testing through government sponsored healthcare i… | Continue reading
I’m a (50%) professor of mathematics and (50%) professor of molecular & cell biology at UC Berkeley. There have been plenty of days when I have spent the working hours with biologists and… | Continue reading
This post is the third in a series of five posts related to the paper “Melsted, Booeshaghi et al., Modular and efficient pre-processing of single-cell RNA-seq, bioRxiv, 2019”. The posts… | Continue reading
This post is the second in a series of five posts related to the paper “Melsted, Booeshaghi et al., Modular and efficient pre-processing of single-cell RNA-seq, bioRxiv, 2019”. The post… | Continue reading
The title of this blog post is a phrase coined by Paul Wouters and Rodrigo Costas in their 2012 publication Users, Narcissism and Control—Tracking the Impact of Scholarly Publications in the 21st C… | Continue reading
The long-standing practice of data sharing in genomics can be traced to the Bermuda principles, which were formulated during the human genome project (Contreras, 2010). While the Bermuda principles… | Continue reading
The post concerns Yuval Peres, a principal researcher in the Microsoft Theory Group and a former colleague of mine at UC Berkeley. Below is a copy of an email sent yesterday to numerous theory of c… | Continue reading
Six years ago I received an email from a colleague in the mathematics department at UC Berkeley asking me whether he should participate in a study that involved “collecting DNA from the brigh… | Continue reading