This week’s tip is about balancing delimiters like parentheses, brackets, quotes, etc. The built-in electric-pair-mode does the following then enabled (copied from the manual, emphasis mine): Electric Pair mode, a global minor mode, provides a way to easily insert matching delimiters: parentheses, braces, brackets, etc. Whenever you insert an opening delimiter, the matching closing delimiter […]
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Tramp is a built-in Emacs “package” that allows you to edit files on remote servers with your local Emacs instance. But it doesn’t only do that, it can also be used to edit files as root via sudo. To achieve this use C-x C-f as you normally would to open a file. However, instead of […]
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My Emacs journey and the first weekly Emacs tip
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In a little more than two weeks from now I will be at the ErasmusMC university medical centre to teach the “Linux for Scientists” course. The EL016 course, as it is officially called, consists of two full days of teaching and practice and is scheduled on January 31st and February 1st, 2023. It is part […]
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Posted on 13 January 2023 by Lennart Karssen
Time flies! Since the end of July I have been working not from the Netherlands as usual, but from Uganda. Now, this “expat period” is coming to an end and my family and I will be back in Den Bosch in January. All in all, I think that my working remotely has not affected the […]
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In two weeks’ time, on Wednesday 26th and Thursday 27th of January, I will be two full days at the Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam. I will be teaching the course Linux for Scientists for students of the Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences (NIHES) MSc programmes.
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Back pain is the number one cause of years lived with disability worldwide and one of the most common reasons for health care visits in developed countries, yet surprisingly little is known regarding the biology underlying this symptom. In our previous study1, published in Sept 2018, we identified three novel genetic variants associated with chronic […]
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Posted on 12 December 2018 by Lennart Karssen
The Clarivate Analytics list of Highly Cited Researchers for 2018 identifies scientists who have demonstrated significant influence through the publication of multiple highly cited papers in the last decade. PolyOmica’s Chief Scientist, Yurii Aulchenko , was selected for his substantial influence across several fields in the period 2006–2016. Approximately 6,000 researchers are named Highly Cited Researchers in […]
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From March 26–28, 2018 the IMforFUTURE International Training Network (ITN), in which PolyOmica is a partner, will have its first network meeting. The meeting will be held at the BioCentar in Zagreb, Croatia, and aside from various committee meetings and social events, the meeting will consist of training sessions for the fellows enrolled in the […]
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On Monday March 5 2018, I will be teaching at the NIHES course “An Introduction to the Analysis of Next-Generation Sequencing data” at the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam. In this one-week course students will learn the basics of how NGS data is generated and how to analyse this type of data. PolyOmica’s contribution to […]
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Back in 2014 we initiated the Research Summer School in Statistical Omics with the help of many friends and colleagues, and with the support (financial and other) from various sources, including the EU-funded MIMOmics project, in which we participate, and the EU-funded Integra-Life project. In a period of two weeks we immersed 13 students (and […]
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From 20 till 27 August, the EU FP7 consortium MIMOmics in which PolyOmica is a partner, organises a Summer School including a Workshop in Omics Studies. The goal of the School is to train a new generation of statistical omics scientists with a biological and biotechnological background to enable them to understand and to apply […]
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One of the great things of ZFS is its built-in compression capability. Enabling compression on a ZFS filesystem allows you to save a significant amount of space, especially in a field like ours where one sometimes needs to use large plain text files. It is completely transparent: the user doesn’t notice anything. Well… unless they […]
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Next week (starting Monday January 30 2017) Yurii and I will be in Rotterdam at the Erasmus University Medical Center where we will teach in the “Advances in Genome-Wide Associations” course of NIHES. This course is part of the Master’s programme in Health Sciences and is compulsory for those who follow the specialisation “Genetic Epidemiology”. […]
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I recently had to send a couple of ZFS file systems from one server to another, both running Ubuntu Linux 16.04. Since both servers were in the same trusted local network, there was no need for encryption. As various other websites will tell you, the fastest way to transfer data over a local network is […]
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We are currently preparing for a visit to Zagreb, Croatia, where we will attend the fourth annual meeting of the MIMOmics EU project on which we collaborate. The programme will covers topics like glycomics and metabolomics, statistical prediction based on multiple omics, casual inference, networks and epidemiology. So if you are in the vicinity of […]
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coffee, eQTL, GWAS, paper Posted on 29 August 2016 by Lennart Karssen
Sometimes one gets unexpected news. Like I got a couple of days ago when one of our collaborators, Nicola Pirastu, informed me that the press release of one of our recent papers was apparently picked up by the ‘regular’ press. At the time of writing a search on news.google.com gives four pages of returned results […]
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We have just returned from Split, Croatia, where we organised and co-sponsored the third Research School in Statistical Omics (RSSSO2016). With this Summer School we aim to train young researchers (at bachelor, master or PhD level) with a bio{logical,medical,chemical} background and interest in quantitative statistical methods to become the next generation of life scientists; these […]
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Recently we published an overview paper of the GenABEL Project [1] on F1000Research. The GenABEL Project is a framework for collaborative, robust, transparent, open-source based development of statistical genomics methodology that PolyOmica sponsors. One of the reasons for publishing this overview paper was that we felt the need for a single, easy-to-point-to reference for the […]
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One of the research projects we are working on at PolyOmica is the EU FP7-funded project MIMOmics (Methods for Integrated analysis of multiple Omics datasets). Last week, the partners in work package 6 (WP6) “Data integration and distributing computing” met in Helsinki for a two-day hackathon. The goal of the hackathon was to work on […]
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Posted on 30 May 2016 by Lennart Karssen
Dear visitors of the PolyOmica blog. This is the first post on our new website. We are very excited about having this new platform at disposal and plan to inform you regularly of the things we are working on. On this blog you can expect announcements of things we do, like upcoming courses, but also […]
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