2026

an archive of posts from this year

Mar 24, 2026
Mar 20, 2026 Pangenome Analysis with Anvi'o: From HPC to Publication-Ready Figures
Mar 19, 2026 Day 6 — Moving Your Data: scp, rsync, SFTP, and Globus Connect
Mar 18, 2026 Day 5 — Reproducible Pipelines: Snakemake and Nextflow
Mar 17, 2026 Day 4 — Scaling Analysis: For Loops vs SLURM Job Arrays
Mar 16, 2026 Day 3 — Running Jobs: Terminal, Bash Loops, and SLURM
Mar 13, 2026 Day 2 — Software Installation: sudo vs module load vs conda
Mar 12, 2026 Day 1 — Laptop vs HPC: Why Bioinformatics Needs Both
Mar 11, 2026 Day 8 — From Raw Data to Paper Figures: A Complete Microbiome Stats Workflow
Mar 10, 2026 Day 7 — Correlation Analysis & Mantel Test: Linking MAGs to Environment
Mar 09, 2026 Day 6 — WGCNA for Microbiome Co-Abundance Networks: From Individual MAGs to Modules
Mar 06, 2026 Day 5 — Multiple Regression for MAG Abundance: Linking Genomics to Environment
Mar 05, 2026 Day 4 — Non-Parametric Tests for Microbiome Data: Wilcoxon, Kruskal-Wallis & Effect Sizes
Mar 04, 2026 Day 3 — PERMANOVA with adonis2: Testing Real Community Differences
Mar 03, 2026 Day 2 — Constrained Ordination: RDA & dbRDA for Microbiome Community Analysis
Mar 02, 2026 Day 1 — Why Normal Statistics Fail for Microbiome Data (And What We Use Instead)
Feb 27, 2026 From Messy Subfolders to Analysis-Ready FASTA: Rename with Python + Collect with Linux find
Feb 24, 2026 Day 5: Substrate Uptake & Utilization in Size-Fractionated Estuarine Microbiomes
Feb 20, 2026 Metagenome Analysis - Graduate Course Materials
Feb 18, 2026 10-Day Metagenome Analysis Series - Complete Summary
Feb 16, 2026 Day 10: Multi-Omics Integration - Metagenomics & Metatranscriptomics
Feb 14, 2026 Day 9: Visualization & Publication - Making Data Tell Stories
Feb 13, 2026 Day 8: Workflow Wrappers & Web Platforms - Streamlining Metagenome Analysis
Feb 12, 2026 Day 7: Comparative Genomics & Statistical Analysis - Connecting Genomes to Environment
Feb 10, 2026 Day 5: Genome Annotation - Understanding Metabolic Potential
Feb 09, 2026 Day 4: Genome Dereplication & Taxonomic Classification - From MAGs to Species
Feb 06, 2026 Day 3: Genome Binning - Recovering Individual Genomes (MAGs) from Metagenomes
Feb 04, 2026 Day 2: Metagenome Assembly - Reconstructing Genomes from Short Reads
Feb 02, 2026 Day 1: Quality Control, Contamination Removal, and Read-Based Taxonomic Analysis
Jan 30, 2026 Genome-Resolved Metabolism: From Metabolic Potential to Co-Metabolism Networks
Jan 29, 2026 Size-Fractionated Microbiome Analysis — Day 4: Gene Catalog Construction & Functional Annotation
Jan 28, 2026 Bridging Clinical and Ecological ML: From Heart Disease to Soil Ecosystem Multifunctionality
Jan 26, 2026 Building Custom HUMAnN3 Databases with Struo2 and GTDB: A Realistic Guide from the Trenches
Jan 22, 2026 Visualize Your Data — Day 5: Bubble Plots in Bioinformatics
Jan 21, 2026 Visualize Your Data — Day 4: Volcano Plots in Bioinformatics
Jan 20, 2026 Visualize Your Data — Day 3: Ordination Plots (PCA, PCoA, NMDS) in Bioinformatics
Jan 19, 2026 Visualize Your Data — Day 2: Heatmaps in Bioinformatics
Jan 14, 2026 Visualize Your Data — Day 1: Box Plot vs Violin Plot in Bioinformatics
Jan 14, 2026 Whole Genome Sequencing — Day 5: Comparative & Downstream Genomic Analyses
Jan 13, 2026 Whole Genome Sequencing — Day 4: Genome Annotation & Functional Potential
Jan 12, 2026 Whole Genome Sequencing — Day 3: Taxonomy, Phylogeny & Genome Similarity
Jan 08, 2026 Whole Genome Sequencing — Day 2: Genome Assembly, Quality Assessment, and Topology
Jan 07, 2026 Whole Genome Analysis — Day 1: From Raw Reads to Clean, Assembly-Ready Data
Jan 01, 2026 Exploring the Pan-Genome with panX: A Practical Workflow for DARPA Isolates