Alan Rice

@alanrice
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Human being. Bioinformatician. He/him. 🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪
Twitter@alanmrice
LocationDublin, Ireland
Side projecthttps://inclusive.cards
Websitehttps://alanrice.ie
FFS, not Bertie on RTE #GE24 coverage...
Saw Wicked last night and loved it! Ariana and Cynthia are perfect for Glinda and Elphaba 🩷💚#PinkGoesGoodWithGreen
the ultimate test of whether Bluesky/Mastodon/Threads is fit for purpose will be live-posting during the #LateLateToyShow.
Baby's first Bambino

This was a wholesome watch.

Behind the scenes of the Butterball Turkey Talk-Line - a hotline staffed by experts solving Thanksgiving turkey emergencies

https://youtu.be/LubkxXGeiOU

How a Talk-Line Saves 10,000+ Thanksgivings Every Year | NYT Cooking

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Happy #LGBTQSTEMDay! 🏳️‍🌈👨‍🔬
Paper accepted and proofs received. We love to see it.
Postdocs count the cost of living in Ireland’s capital https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03608-7
Postdocs count the cost of living in Ireland’s capital

Female researchers and those from outside the European Union are paying a particularly heavy price to live in Dublin.

Web of Science index plans to end eLife’s journal impact factor | Science https://www.science.org/content/article/web-science-index-plans-end-elife-s-journal-impact-factor

literally who hurt genomics to make you all encode one specific kind of number as the ASCII characters from ! to ~ as an integer input to some logarithm function, but then others of you changed the function but kept encoding it as a single ASCII character ranging from -5 to 62 (???), and then later they decided that -5 to 62 was silly and so they changed that to 0-62 and throwing away half the original range for no reason, except actually it's 0-40 by convention.

did anyone consider "encoding it as a number"

https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkp1137

#DataStandards #FileFormats #Genomics

The Sanger FASTQ file format for sequences with quality scores, and the Solexa/Illumina FASTQ variants

ABSTRACT. FASTQ has emerged as a common file format for sharing sequencing read data combining both the sequence and an associated per base quality score,

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