Commentary: ChIP-chip vs ChIP-seq and $$

Ok, so with the rush to ChIP-seq and all the hype (much of it deserved) around “next-generation” sequencing generally, you might think that arrays are dead as used for ChIP (i.e. ChIP-chip).
I don’t think this is going to happen for simple cost reasons. For the near future, there will be lots of genome-scale ChIP studies [...]

I wish I had… started with python earlier…

So far, my bioinformatics work has used a melange of perl, R, and bash scripting. While this has worked pretty well, it does have limits. For one, it is very not portable (bash scripting). I’ve already had problems with distributing software.
I wanted something that I could distribute in an easier way, yet had the advantages [...]

Anti-Lifehacker: Why Lifehacker is probably bad for you

Lifehacker is a website with (mostly) technological solutions for productivity – and it is super-popular.
Lifehacker sounds good – who doesn’t want to improve their productivity or upgrade the way they approach a problem?
But there are deep, but slightly subtle, problems with Lifehacker:
1. Lifehacker ignores the big cost of installing a new piece of software: time [...]