Our new phylogenomics environment is called ReproPhylo. It makes experimental reproducibility frictionless, occurring quietly in the background while you work on the science. The environment has a lot of tools to allow exploration of phylogenomics data and to create phylogenomic analysis pipelines. It is distributed...
There is a really interesting take on the ethics of human genomics from Dienekes' Anthropology Blog prompted by the aboriginal genome recently released. I can't say I disagree with anything. Potential bad ethical outcomes of genetic sampling are very rarely clearly explained and just left...
I have a project going at the moment to examine changes in intron diversity, size and location in animal genomes. I am always a bit frustrated with the way introns are treated in many genome characterisation papers- "the genome contained Y introns with mean intron...
