SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Genentech head of Research and Early Development Aviv Regev confirmed Tuesday that her 12-year-old daughter independently conceived, designed, and executed a 450,000-cell…

How to use dplyr-style slice operations on omics data objects in the tidyomics project.

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Two weeks ago the The Economist published a leader titled "In praise of designer-ish babies". I wrote a letter to the editor in response to this. The Economist was kind enough to publish a shortened f...

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Modern biology research can now generate valuable data on an unprecedented scale. But there is one major obstacle: making sense of these complex high-dimensional datasets. Prof. Erik van Nimwegen’s te...

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Over the past two decades, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified thousands of trait- and disease-associated loci. However, the mechanistic understanding of these loci remains incomple...

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Survey of 2600 early-career researchers compiles traits of “ideal supervisor”

BRUSSELS—In an effort to ensure that rejected applicants have undergone “sufficient personal and scientific growth” before resubmitting, the European Research Council announced Tuesday that…

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AI is pushing scientific publishing to the brink. For neuroscience, the crisis may be an opportunity to finally connect findings across subfields.

Author summary Most of the genetic variants associated with complex traits are located outside genes, limiting functional interpretation. Genetic colocalisation helps identify candidate causal genes b...

Performance optimisation of tidySummarizedExperiment and related benchmark.

GEMINI: Genetic Evaluation of Multimorbidity towards INdividualisation of Interventions - GEMINI

There are a few small tweaks you can make to your ggplot2 code to improve your charts. However, they’re not often mentioned. So here’s a few functions and arguments I wish I’d known about earlier.