Back of a Stamp

Some notes I made while I was figuring out how to generate reports in R with Sweave: http://mng.iop.kcl.ac.uk/site/node/489

Karim Chine doing a workshop on Elastic-R: a google docs-like portal for data analysis in the cloud
http://biogeeks.wordpress.com/category/event/meeting/techmeet/

This is tomorrow at Imperial. All welcome. Come along to the pub if you can’t make it to the talks.
Full details at : http://biogeeks.wordpress.com/2010/01/07/february-tech-meet/
Briefly, talks are:
Andrew Clegg : Building your own search engine with Apache Solr
Manuel Corpas – KaryoDAS: An Interactive Genome Visualization Tool
Phil Dawes – Decentralised version control with Git

eeep. Forgot I’d signed up to go to dev8d.
Looks like it might be fun though – I’ve signed up for a beginners’ Arduino workshop and a Clojure coding dojo. Might drop in on the Rails and Python stuff too, as people keep trying to convince me Perl is going the way of Linear [...]

Just bought tickets for this.
Dara Ó Briain, Tim Minchin, Marcus Brigstocke, Robin Ince, Ed Byrne, Shappi Khorsandi, Professor Brian Cox, Simon Singh, Professor Richard Wiseman, Dr Peter Wilmshurst and Dr Ben Goldacre at the Palace Theatre, Sunday 14 March 2010 in aid of the Coalition for Libel Reform.

Useful fact I didn’t know until today. Do this:

ssh -D8008 me@my.ssh.server.at.work

And you’ll get a SOCKS proxy on localhost:8008. Then you can just tell Firefox (or whatever) to use it and all your web requests will go through your server, giving you access to journal articles etc.

My boss asked me to make a nice slide for a presentation showing the collaborations between researchers at our institute. I have a mountain of other work to do, so in the name of procrastination I spent the afternoon playing with the igraph R library:

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Heh…

ChIPpeaksAnnot is a Bioconductor package, built on top of all the Biostrings, BSGenome, IRanges stuff, that will let you annotate peaks with nearby features. Some features (eg. mouse and human TSS positions for current genomes) are made available as data with the package, but it also speaks biomaRt to fetch other features if you need [...]

Even though I’ve got my default browser set to Chromium on Ubuntu, Adobe Air programs (well, TweetDeck, which is the only one I use) is insisting on using Firefox. Ignore recommendations to manually edit the hard-coded “firefox” in /opt/Adobe\ AIR/Versions/1.0/libCore.so. It’s fixed in the Air 2.0 beta