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In 1996, two academics from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, launched a new programming language.
25 years later, this language is one of the most widely used in the world.
Here's the story of R:#rstats pic.twitter.com/eMnNnyauZh
— Yohan Iddawela (@yohaniddawela) October 7, 2021
In 1996, two academics from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, launched a new programming language.
25 years later, this language is one of the most widely used in the world.
Here's the story of R:#rstats pic.twitter.com/eMnNnyauZh
submitted by: Istvan Albert
Every time I see new tidyverse syntax I become more radicalised.
Credit Joel Grus for the code "examples" pic.twitter.com/yJOzMLzbcG
— Alan O'Callaghan (@AlanBOCallaghan) October 13, 2021
Every time I see new tidyverse syntax I become more radicalised.
Credit Joel Grus for the code "examples" pic.twitter.com/yJOzMLzbcG
submitted by: Istvan Albert
Confronting false discoveries in single-cell differential expression | Nature Communications (www.nature.com)
Here, we show that the relative performance of these methods is contingent on their ability to account for variation between biological replicates. Methods that ignore this inevitable variation are biased and prone to false discoveries. Indeed, the most widely used methods can discover hundreds of differentially expressed genes in the absence of biological differences. To exemplify these principles, we exposed true and false discoveries of differentially expressed genes in the injured mouse spinal cord.
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https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/advance-article/doi/10.1093/bioinformatics/btab705/6384570
Now minimap2 v2.22 can more accurately map long reads to highly repetitive regions and align through insertions or deletions up to 100kb by default, addressing major weakness in minimap2 v2.18 or earlier.
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GitHub - brentp/slivar: variant expressions, annotation, and filtering for great good. (github.com)
slivar: filter/annotate variants in VCF/BCF format with simple expressions
slivar is a set of command-line tools that enables rapid querying and filtering of VCF files. It facilitates operations on trios and groups and allows arbitrary expressions using simple javascript.
submitted by: Istvan Albert
GitHub - HKU-BAL/Clair: Clair: Exploring the limit of using deep neural network on pileup data for germline variant calling (github.com)
In this study, we present Clair, the successor to Clairvoyante, a program for fast and accurate germline small variant calling, using single molecule sequencing data. For ONT data, Clair achieves the best precision, recall and speed as compared to several competing programs, including Clairvoyante, Longshot and Medaka.
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