Ever need a graph to illustrate a point for a talk or blog post–Like the fact that the number of blog posts at WordPress.com is rapidly increasing–UF now has a subscription to Statista.com. This could be a great resource, but is a poor substitute for a rapidly shrinking UF Statistics Department…but that’s another topic.
I’ve been playing with the R package diversitree lately, and there’s some great tutorials online: The diversitree site itself has several tutorials The AnthroTree site has a nice tutorial on using BiSSE in diversitree Frank McCown has a nice overview of plotting in R
We use Apple’s OSX Lion Server (10.7) to host TimeMachine backups for several machines around the lab. Mostly this is a secondary backup as most user data is on a different fileserver, so I haven’t been too concerned about it. Recently though, we had a machine that needed a hard drive replacement, and I wanted […]
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Our paper by Greg Stull and others just came out in Applications in Plant Sciences outlining the use of Agilent SureSelect targeted enrichment to facilitate rapid and low-cost next-generation sequencing of many complete plastid genomes from flowering plants. While we only used 24 indexed samples in the paper, we note that hundreds could be done, […]