JAGS 4.0.0beta released!
JAGS 4.0.0beta on 2015-07-29 released with important upgrades (reproducibility!), see https://martynplummer.wordpress.com Note! Download from Google Drive, not official JAGS website!
Chrome | screencastify
Screencastify is a very elegant, easy use software to create screencasts (Desktop + webcam), which is nicely integrated into the CHROME browser as an extension and to Google Drive as storage. Screencasts are mostly tutorials on computer or software usage, but can be used for presentations in the broadest sense which combine screen and audio.…
AstraZeneca-Sanger Drug Combination Prediction DREAM Challenge
Any volunteers? Who wants to join me? “To accelerate the understanding of drug synergy, AstraZeneca has partnered with the European Bioinformatic Institute, the Sanger Institute, Sage Bionetworks, and the distributed DREAM community to launch the AstraZeneca-Sanger Drug Combination Prediction DREAM Challenge. This Challenge is designed to explore fundamental traits that underlie effective combination treatments and…
Hamiltonian Monte Carlo in easy words
If you are playing around with R/stan and struggling to get your head around the HMC/NUTS algorithm, I highly recommend the following blog by Prof. John Thompson which is a very educational description of the underlying principles (using Stata though): Stan with Stata, Part V: Kicking a marble around in a bucket Stan with Stata,…
Principles of Academic Success
Here my very subjective view on the principles of academic success (still working on step 4…): To be successful as a master student, you have to be intelligent. To be successful as a doctorate student, you have to be intelligent and hard-working. To be successful as a post-doc, you have to be intelligent, hard-working, and…
Help, help, … I need a statistician!
If you ever wanted to feel as important as an emergency doctor helping people, but your nerdy skills as a data scientist or statistician did not seem to interest people, times are going to change. There are two organizations which allow you to contribute your professional knowledge to charity work. http://community.amstat.org/statisticswithoutborders/home/ http://www.datakind.org
Referencing with LaTeX, Emacs, AucTex … and PubMode
Writing scientific texts in LaTeX and Emacs can be painful in many aspects, not least one having to format references in BibTex. Although reference managers exist which can export to BibTeX, and some Websites support BibTex export, this is cumbersome (requiring a lot clicks or keystrokes) or messy (BibTex fields are messed up or contain…
ANNOVAR (2014nov12) is available
An updated version of ANNOVAR (2014nov12) is available. ANNOVAR is the most frequently used tool to annotate genomic variants with functional information. DOWNLOAD: http://www.openbioinformatics.org/annovar/download/g4EUwyphi9/annovar.latest.tar.gz
Bitbucket: Version Control System
I just discovered the web-based hosting service Bitbucket/SourceTree (https://bitbucket.org) as an interface to various version control systems. The website and the local client SourceTree together implement a very convenient user interface to the MECURIAL and GIT (by Linus Torvalds) version control system. There are free (limited) accounts and the option to keep private and public…
Journal “Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application” [Free 1st issue]
A new journal having a broad perspective on statistics and science has been launched. The first (free) issue looks very promising with nice reviews on state of the art topics… URL: “Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application”