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Bioconductor 3.23 wrap-up

Bioconductor
R

My wrap-up of the Bioconductor 3.23 release

May 12, 2026
4 min
Flowchart diagram showing an overview of the study design for the feature selection for integration benchmark project

Benchmarking feature selection for integration

scRNA-seq
benchmarking
feature selection
integration
publication

A summary of our recently published paper “Feature selection methods affect the performance of scRNA-seq data integration and querying”

Mar 15, 2025
12 min

Sketchnotes of Rob Patro's scverse conference keynote 'Upstream of the single-cell data deluge: On the importance of accurate, efficient and open methods for preprocessing single-cell data'

scverse conference

scverse
conference
sketchnotes

Recap of the first scverse conference and sketchnotes of keynote talks

Sep 15, 2024
2 min
 

scRNA-tools low-maintenance mode

scRNA-tools
database

Announcement of the scRNA-tools database entering low-maintenance mode, some more detail and various thoughts

Mar 4, 2024
3 min
 

Bioconductor 3.12 wrap-up

Bioconductor
R

My wrap-up of the Bioconductor 3.12 release

Oct 30, 2020
3 min

triple j’s Requestival

analysis
music

Analysis of the songs played during triple j’s Requestival event

Jul 11, 2020
9 min

Back to the SCE-verse!

Bioconductor
R
scRNA-seq
SingleCellExperiment
analysis

Updated analysis of packages that use the SingleCellExperiment object in 2020

May 12, 2020
10 min
 

Bioconductor 3.11 wrap-up

Bioconductor
R

My wrap-up of the Bioconductor 3.11 release

Apr 29, 2020
3 min
 

Caching blogdown posts

blogdown
R

Description of how I cache blogdown Markdown files

Apr 9, 2020
6 min

Exploring the SCE-verse

Bioconductor
R
scRNA-seq
SingleCellExperiment
analysis

Analysis of packages that use the SingleCellExperiment object

Jun 9, 2018
14 min

Bioconductor 3.7 wrap-up

Bioconductor
R
scRNA-seq

A wrap-up of the Bioconductor 3.7 release

May 4, 2018
4 min

My AFL-Elo model

AFL
Elo
sport

My Elo model for predicting AFL games

Apr 21, 2018
13 min
Abstract purple photograph of water droplets

Welcome to Blogdown!

blogdown

My new Blogdown blog

Mar 24, 2018
1 min
Graph of connections between Twitter users during the Joining the Dots visualisation symposium

Joining the Dots Twitter analysis

conference
visualisation
Twitter

Analysis of Twitter activity at the Joining the Dots visualisation symposium

Aug 18, 2017
9 min
Image of a clustering tree visualisation

Building a clustering tree

R
scRNA-seq
clustering tree

Introductory post to building a clustering tree

Jul 19, 2017
32 min

Python All the Things

PyConAU 2016

Python
conference
thoughts

My thoughts after attending PyConAU 2016

Aug 18, 2016
5 min
 

Gantt charts in R

R
project management
Gantt chart
Excel

Steps for creating Gantt charts in R

Jun 13, 2016
8 min
 

Bioconductor 3.3 packages

R
Bioconductor

Wrap up of new packages in the Bioconductor 3.3 release

May 3, 2016
1 min
 

Extracting alignment statistics using Python

Python
alignment
statistics

A Python script for extracting alignment statistics from BAM files

Mar 30, 2016
2 min
 

My Markdown thesis

writing
Markdown
thesis
LaTeX

A description of the setup for building my Masters thesis using Markdown and Pandoc

Sep 13, 2015
3 min
 

Open science workshops

open science
workshop
collaboration

This Saturday I attended the first workshop run by Open Science Workshops at the Inspire9 collaborative workspace

Jul 20, 2014
2 min
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