Archive for July, 2009

New Catalyst Book

Friday, July 24th, 2009

Haven’t been paying much attention to Catalyst of late, as I’ve been up to my neck in ChIPseq data. Just noticed there’s a new book out: The Definitive Guide to Catalyst.
It’s written by Catalyst’s leading doc author Kieren Diment and Matt “mst” Trout, Catalyst core dev, author of DBIx::Class and general purveyor of Perly [...]

Macs Peak Finding

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

My notes on how Macs works. Probably riddled with errors – check out the links below for official docs:
Website
Genome Biology Paper
We’ve used ChIP to grab bits of DNA that correspond to the region bound by the transcription factor (or marked by the histone modification, or whatever). So the data looks something like this:

Except that the [...]

Setting up Galaxy

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

At ISMB, the Galaxy guys were talking about using Galaxy as an interface for analysing NGS data. I’m having a go at getting it up and running on EC2. Notes are really for my own reference, but I thought I’d post them in case they were of use to anyone else.
AWS Setup
Obviously, you need an [...]

Photos from Stockholm

Sunday, July 5th, 2009

Are here. They don’t do the place justice though.