Thursday, 22 August 2024

Using an image that has a Creative Commons license

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 I'm writing some online training material, and want to include some images that have Creative Commons licenses, so need to figure out h...
Monday, 17 June 2024

Making documentation on readthedocs

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I've found the Readthedocs website really useful for making documentation, for example, for the Little Books of R and for the Vibriowa...
Thursday, 16 May 2024

Testing whether data follow a uniform distribution

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Someone asked me how to test whether a data variable, which has values ranging from 1-1000, follows a uniform distribution.  Getting some in...
Thursday, 2 May 2024

Finding SNPs in a core gene alignment using snp-sites

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Today I'm using the snp-sites software (by Page et al 2016 ) to extract SNPs from core gene alignments (output from Panaroo ). It's...
Tuesday, 23 April 2024

'Practical Statistics for Medical Research' by Douglas G. Altman

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I'm doing some Statistics revision, reading the brilliant and classic book ' Practical Statistics for Medical Research ' by Doug...
Friday, 12 January 2024

We're hiring - Training and Events Coordinator

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 We are currently recruiting in Nick Thomson's group at the Wellcome Sanger Institute for a 'Training and Events Coordinator' t...
Thursday, 11 January 2024

Finding core genes shared by a bacterial species using Panaroo

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This week I learnt how to use the Panaroo software for finding core genes (genes present across all isolates of a species) shared across a ...