Author: paulmedv

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

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

(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

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

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

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