Really excited to unveil an interactive playground for learning bioinformatics command-line tools like bedtools, bowtie2, and samtools (and more to come!) 🧑‍💻 🧬. Thanks to @aaronquinlan, @BenLangmead, and @mike_schatz for feedback and tutorial ideas.

I always found that my resume doesn't do my experience justice, so a portfolio website can be a great visual way to show hiring managers all the good stuff I want them to see. I turned it into a GitHub template that you can copy for free:

📢 Excited to share new features on .- Python playground to quickly test code.- Customize how much RAM the command-line can use: 512MB, 1GB, 2GB (previously fixed at 1GB).- Confetti animations when you finish a tutorial 🙃

🦠 New tutorial on Learn to build phylogenetic trees from viral sequences, going from multiple sequence alignment to tree generation and rooting 🧬 💻.

Here's what she learned:

Leaving academia is the path for the vast majority of PhDs, not a backup plan, and not an "alternative career". We spoke with Stanford PhD student Ashley Moses, who interviewed hundreds of PhDs to help demystify the transition into industry.

We'll be adding more interactive articles over the course of the year, so let me know what's a topic you struggle with.

Link to the article:

Excited to announce our first interactive article on about genomic ranges. Move & resize the ranges to see how that affects bedtools operations like merge and intersect in real time!

We always tell people to create a portfolio to showcase their work. Today, we're releasing a template to get you started: It's for scientists and engineers who want a living resume of projects, work timelines, and blog posts that demonstrate expertise.

In 2024, had >170,000 tutorial page views! 🥳. The most popular tutorials were:.1. ​Terminal basics.2. ​Genomic intervals with bedtools.3. ​Terminal exercises.4. ​Data exploration with awk.5. ​DNA sequencing QC. Check them out here:

📢 Our first bioinformatics office hours were a lot of fun, so we will be hosting more of them this year! We will also invite special guests to co-host 👀. Join this Google Group to be notified when the next ones are: (login with Google, then "Join Group")

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🌲 New tutorial on Learn to build phylogenetic trees from closely related genomes using ska2.

See the talk on YouTube:

I'm excited to share that my BrowserTech.wasm talk is now online!. I talk about:.1️⃣ Why I don't find WebAssembly useful outside the browser.2️⃣ Why you should not measure the success of WebAssembly by how many developers use it.

Should you learn R or Python first for bioinformatics? 🤔. Link in the next tweet because Twitter hates links.

RT @vsbuffalo: Feels like there are huge inefficiencies in the economics of scientific/data analytics software. I get many ideas for great….