Friday, 10 January 2025

Using snippy to find SNPs in bacterial genomes

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I have been learning how to use snippy by Torsten Seemann to identify SNPs in bacterial genomes. Running snippy To run snippy on the Sanger...
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...