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1/Folks with mainly biology training sometimes ask me for resources that can help them learn bioinformatics. This short thread has my recommendations at various levels. 2/First, if you mainly want

1/@UMNews banned from contributing to the Linux kernel after paper @IEEESSP reveals @UMNComputerSci researchers led by @kengiter intentionally tried to introduce security vulnerabilities into Linux. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=ne

1/It's been an interesting few days! Guess I'm not really surprised that some don't want to share the code and models underlying their publications. Am surprised that some think that

1/Now in @nature: our Matters Arising letter describing how the @GoogleHealth study claiming an AI system can outperform radiologists at predicting cancer violates basic scientific standards of transparency and reproducibility.

1/Never fun being called out, even very gently, but it can be an important factor in doing better. Have been thinking a lot about this over the past few days.

1/Was asked by @jasleen_grewal what I mean by "controls: they're not just for wet lab experiments". Good question!Controls are a principle for analysis of biomedical research data, in general. Not