Monthly Archives: April 2020
DNA day 2020: The genomes of Dominette and Esperanza
Hans Zauner - April 25, 2020
It’s DNA day, celebrating two historic milestones: The publication of the structure of DNA in 1953, and the completion of the human genome project in 2003. What better occasion could there be to take a step back and marvel at the breath-taking progress in genomics over the years. For this year’s special DNA day blog, GigaScience […]
Guest Blog: Data in the time of Coronavirus, Pt. 2
Scott Edmunds - April 12, 2020
With ongoing the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic providing us with unprecedented insight into the progression of a disease outbreak, and unprecedented time in the lock down to turn us all into armchair epidemiologists. This includes near real-time sharing and analysis of genomics data through platforms like nextstrain, and of ways to view the infection, mortality and […]
Reproducible Classification. Q&A on ShinyLearner & the CODECHECK certificate, pt. 2
Scott Edmunds - April 8, 2020
Q&A with Stephen Piccolo talking about ShinyLearner, a benchmarking tool for machine-learning classification algorithms, & how it was tested with CODECHECK
Certified Reproducibility. Q&A on ShinyLearner & the CODECHECK certificate, pt. 1
Scott Edmunds - April 7, 2020
Out today in GigaScience is ShinyLearner, a new tool to make it easier to perform benchmark comparisons of classification algorithms. This tool stands out by making this process super systematic and reproducible, and despite needing to interface with many different libraries and languages it uses software containers (and a CodeOcean demo) so end users don’t […]