neurodudes

This poster, by Bennett, Baird, Miller, and Wolford, provides a memorable reminder that you have to do a statistical correction for multiple comparisons when you datamine a large number of things for correlation.

“The task administered to the salmon involved completing an open-ended mentalizing task. The salmon was shown a series of photographs depicting human individuals in social situations with a specified emotional valence. The salmon was asked to determine what emotion the individual in the photo must have been experiencing.”

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Neurodudes reader (and optogeneticist) Feng Zhang has designed some vector manipulation tools that are freely available online. He writes

My colleague Robert Wang and I created an online collaborative DNA Vector analysis program called everyVECTOR. We were initially motivated because all of the existing commercial software are really expensive and the free ones are not as nicely designed/intuitive to use. Also, I was always frustrated with collaborators sending me text files of DNA sequences that weren’t annotated and confusing to read.

[...] You can also the public interface (without registration) by visiting here.

We released everyVECTOR last week and so far we have received good responses from people. We have around 200 users now from the past week, mostly from the Stanford and bay area universities.

I hope all of you molecular biologists can give everyVECTOR a try and give Feng some feedback. It certainly seems much more affordable (ie. free) than its well-known competitors. I’m a big fan of web-based tools myself and find them invaluable in doing simple sequence calculations for my own projects (one of my favs is the Sequence Manipulation Suite).

Also, apologies for the decreased posting frequency… I’m trying to graduate these days and there just doesn’t seem to be enough hours for everything. I hope to return to full force soon.