May
20
Keeping track of things: using a labbook for bioinformatics
It's been a while since my last post. Left my last job, was unemployed for a month (while still chairing a session at a conference), and just started my new position here at the Sanger Institute.
On every job you're able to pick up some new things that can help you out later. One of the good ones from Roslin was how to keep a labjournal for bioinformatics. In the position before Roslin (at Wageningen University in the Netherlands), I remember having trouble remembering what I did to my data. So I was really happy to see that they actually had thought about those things in Roslin...
So what's the problem?
There are very significant parallels between bench-based labwork and computer-based data mangling. In both, you take some input (e.g.
On every job you're able to pick up some new things that can help you out later. One of the good ones from Roslin was how to keep a labjournal for bioinformatics. In the position before Roslin (at Wageningen University in the Netherlands), I remember having trouble remembering what I did to my data. So I was really happy to see that they actually had thought about those things in Roslin...
So what's the problem?
There are very significant parallels between bench-based labwork and computer-based data mangling. In both, you take some input (e.g.
