Matt Ralston
22 Apr 2021In this blog post we’ll be reviewing the essentials of a mature workstation build, in this case, for graduate school. We begin with a look at what defines a workstation...
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05 Sep 2020I see plenty of posts on /r/bioinformatics of students or mid-career professionals asking what it takes to become a bioinformatician. What skills should I have? What programming languages should I...
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16 Feb 2020Introduction Big data is a meme, but there is a dichotomy worth discussing in the emerging interdisciplinary fields involving computer science. There is a choice that hybrid scientist-quants make during...
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29 May 2019Things that made me faster in grad schoolv Now that I'm out in the real world and out of the scholastic bubble, the world seems very obsessed with productivity. It...
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15 May 2019About a 45 min read. Introduction Bioinformatics research in 2019 relies on high-performance, compiled C, C++, or Java programs to solve alignment and assembly problems efficiently. However, interpreted scripting languages,...
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01 Oct 2018In this post I’m going to try something a little bit different. I’m presenting at my alma matter this fall to talk about my research for Bristol Myers Squibb. As...
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28 Jun 2018See the great thing about science and technology jobs is our transparency and focus on the problem, not on the finance. You could say that the tech sector is very...
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16 Apr 2018Hi everyone, have you ever wondered what would be a good idea for an app? Since I became a developer, now I have *some* of the tools to potentially create...
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