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Bioinformatician, support scientist, Python programmer. Full bio on my blog. You can also follow me on Twitter.

I run the Bioinformatics Support Unit at Newcastle University.

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Answer: A: What Is Your Favorite Conserved Protein?
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Job: Vacancy in Bioinformatics Core, Newcastle University, UK
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Answer: A: Bioinformatics And Computer Science
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Answer: A: Are Super User Style Questions Appropriate In Biostar?
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Comment: C: Are Super User Style Questions Appropriate In Biostar?
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Comment: C: Efficient Network Motif Finder
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Comment: C: Code Golf: Mean Length Of Fasta Sequences
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Comment: C: Code Golf: Mean Length Of Fasta Sequences
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Comment: C: Code Golf: Mean Length Of Fasta Sequences
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Answer: A: Code Golf: Mean Length Of Fasta Sequences
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Answer: A: Given A Doi How Can I Retrieve The Metadata About An Object
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Answer: A: Bioinformatics Consulting Thoughts
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Comment: C: Cs Student Looking For A Master And Maybe Phd Into Bioinformatics
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Comment: C: Phylip App'S Without Emboss Tool
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Comment: C: Phylip App'S Without Emboss Tool
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Answer: A: Lookup A Gene Ontology Definition With Biopython
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Answer: A: Pariwise Local And Global Alignment
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Answer: A: Programatic Technique For Gene-Name/Id Conversion
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Comment: C: Vacancies at Newcastle University, UK
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Job: Vacancies at Newcastle University, UK
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Job: Cancer Bioinformatician. Newcastle University, UK.
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Comment: C: How to avoid conversion of gene symbols to date format in Excel
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Comment: C: How to avoid conversion of gene symbols to date format in Excel
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Answer: A: How to avoid conversion of gene symbols to date format in Excel
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Answer: A: How to identify every read in a fastq file?
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Comment: C: What is the appropriate approach for ChIPseq protein genome occupancy % calculat
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Comment: C: What is the appropriate approach for ChIPseq protein genome occupancy % calculat
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How Can I Get All The Domain Structures In A Cath Superfamily?
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Job: Two Positions in Bioinformatics Core Facility, Newcastle, UK
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News: Command Line Bioinformatics and High-throughput Sequencing Analysis Course
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Comment: C: Hardware Suitable For Generic Nextgen Sequencing Processing?
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How To Find Sequences For Protein Names (A Challenge)
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What License Do You Use When You Release Code And Data?
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Job: Core Facility Positions At Newcastle University, Uk
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Comment: C: What Is Your Favorite Conserved Protein?
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Comment: C: Mirdeep2 Installation (Error In Make_Html.Pl)
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Answer: A: Why Cannot Limma Package Do Differential Expression Between Two Samples Without
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Comment: C: Transcription Factor Binding Sites Database For Bacteria?
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Answer: A: R Heatmaps: Non-Linear Mapping Between Colors And Values
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Comment: C: What Is A Correct Way To Assess Batch Effect?
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Comment: C: What Is A Correct Way To Assess Batch Effect?
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Answer: A: How To Get Cdf For A Specific Cel
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Comment: C: Shall We Go Back To Stackexchange?
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Answer: A: Does Bowtie2 Map Multiple Reads To The Same Gene?
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Answer: A: T-Test In R On Microarray Data
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Answer: A: Manipulate Sequences In Fastq Files
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Answer: A: Illumina Sentrix Beads Arrays
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Answer: A: Build 21 - Which Hg (Liftover)?
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Comment: C: What Are The Most Common Stupid Mistakes In Bioinformatics?
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Answer: A: Compare The Power Of Two Similar Microarray Experiments
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Comment: C: Velvet Raw Seq Assembler
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Comment: C: Almost Impossible For A New Question To Get To The Top
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Comment: C: What Are The Most Common Stupid Mistakes In Bioinformatics?
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Comment: C: Is It Possible For Two Different Affymetrix Probe Set Id To Have Common Annotati
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Comment: C: Is It Possible For Two Different Affymetrix Probe Set Id To Have Common Annotati
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Answer: A: How To Compare Expression Values In Microarray Experiments?
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Good Example Sequence For Psi-Blast
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Comment: C: Parsing Pdbcodes To Their Cath Numbers
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Answer: A: Parsing Pdbcodes To Their Cath Numbers
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Answer: A: What Is The Most Appropriate Uri For A Journal Article?
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Comment: C: What Is The Gc-Content Across Different Human Chromosomes?
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Answer: A: What Is The Gc-Content Across Different Human Chromosomes?
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Answer: A: Recommend Your Favorite User Interfaces For Public Web-Based Datasets -- And Tel
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Answer: A: A Query For The Source Code Of Spectral Clustering Algorithm On Protein Sequence
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Answer: A: Your Favorite Bioinformatics Blogs (October 2011)
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Answer: A: How Do You Generate/Obtain The Citation Block From A Given Paper?
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Answer: A: What Are The Proteomics Data Repositories?
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Comment: C: What Would You Recommend Me For A One Year Project: Develop A Bioinformatics Sof
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Answer: A: Bioinformatics Career Survey 2011/2012
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Answer: A: Where Can I Get Stats For Previous Uniprot Release?
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Answer: A: Blast Database For Bos Taurus
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Comment: C: Perl Program For Reading Fastq Format Files
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Comment: C: Perl Program For Reading Fastq Format Files
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Answer: A: Color Pdb According To Amino-Acid Conservation
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Comment: C: Using Cufflinks For Rna-Seq Without Tophat/Bowtie.
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Comment: C: Top In-Silico Drug Discovery Papers
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Comment: C: Top In-Silico Drug Discovery Papers
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Answer: A: Top In-Silico Drug Discovery Papers
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Comment: C: Creating A New Bioinformatics Unit
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Answer: A: Creating A New Bioinformatics Unit
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Answer: A: Can We Download An Image Of Kegg ?
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Answer: A: Which Bioinformatician Do You Follow On Twitter
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Answer: A: Which Bioinformatician Do You Follow On Twitter
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Comment: C: Which Bioinformatician Do You Follow On Twitter
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Comment: C: Best Bioinformatics Research Images
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Answer: A: Best Bioinformatics Research Images
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Answer: A: Encode Chipseq Peaks
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Answer: A: Modelling A Protein Using Modeller
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Comment: C: Counting Reads In Sam Format
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Answer: A: Python Script That Can Find Distance Between One Atom Of A Pdb File To All Other
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Comment: C: Given A Doi How Can I Retrieve The Metadata About An Object
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Answer: A: Is There Interest In An Ios Bioinformatics "Toolkit"?
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Comment: C: Script For Parsing A Biological Sequence From A Public Database In Python
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Answer: A: The Oldest Bioinformatics Publication
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Answer: A: Script For Parsing A Biological Sequence From A Public Database In Python
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Comment: C: Script For Parsing A Biological Sequence From A Public Database In Python
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Comment: C: How To Get The List Of Genes Involved In A Biological Process
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Answer: A: How To Get The List Of Genes Involved In A Biological Process
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Answer: A: Transcription Factor Binding Sites Database For Bacteria?
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Answer: A: Database Of Databases?
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