Conferences for microbial genomics, bioinformatics and microbiology

These are meetings that apply to my area of microbiology, genomics and bioinformatics. These include meetings I have attended in the past…

Drawing phylogenetic trees in R (ggtree)

Here are some notes on how to use R (specifically the ggtree package) to draw phylogenetic trees. In this first section, I will show…

The scientist's eight surefire steps to self sabotage

I saw an interesting video recently talking about Self Sabotage. It was talking about creative work generally, but I see a lot of scientists…

The dark secret about containers in Bioinformatics

If you talk to your friendly neighbourhood bioinformatician (Binfie) these days, you might hear them mention "containers", " docker ", and…

Variations on map projections in R

In this example we will: Use some crazy projections Do some themeing for our maps Inspired by https://xkcd.com/977/ Requirements: R ggplot…