James Hawley @jrhawley@scholar.social

I'm a PhD candidate in Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto studying epigenetics and cancer. Math and physics background taking a step into bioinformatics and evolution #introductions

Now is the time to make sure you are going to adjust to living differently. If you're worried about your work, know that your work will suffer more if you don't take the time now to make sure that you and your loved ones are ok. The best thing you can do right now is stay home, take some time, and think about how to prepare yourself for the next couple months

I've seen a lot of things about how to remain productive, working from home, etc. But I think it's worth mentioning right now that changing your entire day-to-day behaviour is not always easy.

If you need to take a few days to separate from your work, take a break from the news, check up on family and friends, and make sure you have enough supplies to last for a couple weeks, do it.

Google's "reproducible" research: a thread

https://twitter.com/michaelhoffman/status/1237349469118586891

> I appreciate journals making Covid19 work open access, and I hope when this is over we don’t forget that their logic in doing so tacitly admits that their traditional model slows down the advancement of science

https://twitter.com/baym/status/1235223826419650562

I'm a big fan of #snakemake, and so are others, apparently.

Here are some handy tips

http://ivory.idyll.org/blog/2020-snakemake-hacks-collections-files.html

As a long time #vim user, I've recently switched to #emacs, particularly for #orgmode. Transitioning between them was a bit confusing, so I wrote a small blog post answering some questions I had while trying to figure out how to think about using emacs

https://jrhawley.github.io/2020/03/08/emacs

Looks like @davetang31@twitter.com started doing some sequence comparison to other SARS viruses

https://davetang.org/muse/2020/03/05/sequence-analysis-sars-cov-2/

Every now and against I find I need to filter chromosomes with those "_random" names and stuff out to keep control of my analyses.

I always end up back at this regex testing site to make sure it works with my desired data

https://www.regextester.com/97213

The #coronavirus genome appears to be fully sequenced.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/MN908947.3?report=fasta

Pick your favourite transcription factor motif and have at it!