James Knight @knightjimr
Bioinformatician. Ex-NGS tool builder trying to become an NGS tool user. (Failing at it, but really, really trying.) My opinions are my own. campuspress.yale.edu/knightlab/ New Haven Joined January 2014-
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Top 10 causes of death: 1900 vs. 2010. #dataviz nejm.org/action/showIma…
Our new preprint "Canu: scalable and accurate long-read assembly via adaptive k-mer weighting and repeat separation" biorxiv.org/content/early/…
Thought assemblers were closer to getting "correct" assemblies. Talks today convincing me that they aren't yet. #AGBT16
.@timbuckteeth: I showed my 18yo son a floppy disk...he said wow, you 3D printed the save icon! #ReCon_15
Assembling large genomes with single-molecule sequencing and locality-sensitive hashing nature.com/nbt/journal/va…
Great story about development of BLAST blog.thegrandlocus.com/2014/06/once-u… from @thegrandlocus featuring @TheGeneMyers, Lipman, Altschul et al
Horrible name, interesting paper: GABenchToB feedly.com/e/wo3VfTZr Via @DrJCThrash
Companion post to @knightjimr from @lh3lh3 : a compact review of prior work on sequences as graphs lh3.github.io/2014/07/25/on-…
You're not allowed bioinformatics anymore wp.me/p1PnkE-b5
New post: A favorite talk at AGBT 2014 - Gene Myers (Max Planck Dresden) yuz.li/6r

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