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Can researcher identity be captured with a single number?

Posted onNovember 15, 2022November 15, 2022

Of course not, the title is just click bait 🙂 But, what I was thinking of a characterization that could be informative. We have two little voices in our head, driving our self-esteem. On one hand, we seek the approval Read More

From idea to paper: discretizing and optimizing the initial stages of the process

Posted onAugust 17, 2022August 17, 2022

This is a post about managing the research process when juggling many projects and other commitments. My idea-to-output pipeline: I often have “a flash of potential insight.” This might be a thought about how there is a better way of Read More

The challenges of writing a logical argument in the Introduction

Posted onNovember 10, 2021November 29, 2021

Writing a good intro to a paper is challenging, for many reasons. I have a longer lecture about it here. In this post, I wanted to point out one reason which occurred to me only after many years and after Read More

What do Eulerian and Hamiltonian cycles have to do with genome assembly?

Posted onAugust 21, 2020May 21, 20215 Comments

(UPDATE: A slightly updated version of this blog is now published here in PLoS Computational Biology) (written by Paul Medvedev and Mihai Pop) When you learned about genome assembly algorithms, you might have heard a story that goes something like Read More

Algorithm Engineering / Experimental Algorithms

Posted onApril 1, 2020April 1, 2020

If you know me personally, then you know how often I complain about the gap between theory and practice in bioinformatics. Recently, I came across a research area that seeks to address this gap, though not in bioinformatics specifically. It Read More

My Twitter guidelines

Posted onFebruary 25, 2020February 25, 20202 Comments

I was recently asked about my attitude towards Twitter, which inspired me to write a blog post about it. It took me awhile to start using Twitter, and then only as a passive observer. On the one hand, the format Read More

What are some common issues I find when reviewing algorithmic bioinformatics conference papers?

Posted onAugust 11, 2019April 6, 2020

UPDATE: This post, in a slightly modified and improved form, is now published at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007742 . Please see there for the latest version. As a PC member, I sometimes find it frustrating to see a paper that potentially has a Read More

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