Tag: Genomics

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Making Statistics Fun -- Can You Help?

While searching the Web for jokes and amusing videos for students considering studying statistics, I came across a cool video in which Oxford mathematician Peter Donnelly talks about stats and gives some examples of common mistakes people make when interpreting stats. In the last eight minutes, he describes a famous

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JMP Customer Herzenberg Lab Wins Computerworld Honor

Congratulations to Leonard and Leonore Herzenberg, co-founders of the Herzenberg Laboratory at Stanford University. The lab is a 2010 Laureate of the Computerworld Honors Program. JMP has a longstanding relationship with the Herzenberg Lab, which is famous for its work in developing Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sorting technology. It is the lab's

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Principal Variance Components Analysis

Apart from truly novel and innovative breakthroughs, a basic recipe for scientific research is: Combine two or more established methods that have evolved independently, leveraging particular strengths of each. Give the new combination a clever name. Publish the heck out of it. In this blog post, I’d like to highlight

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JMP Year-End Roundup

Ah, yes. It’s been a good year. Why? Because JMP® software only gets better with age. Each new release boasts enhanced features and capabilities. And as time goes on, more people come to recognize the power of data visualization for making breakthroughs. As 2009 comes to a close, we reminisce

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New Feature in JMP Genomics 4.1: Tip of the Day

Have you ever wondered if there was a special trick in JMP Genomics for creating a specific graphic or if there was an easy way to change the size of a set of markers? Well, wonder no more! For the forthcoming release of JMP Genomics, we polled a large group

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It’s in My Blood

We be of one blood, thou and I. So says Mowgli, the boy raised by wolves in Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book. From Cain and Abel to Twilight’s Edward and Jacob, the human race's very existence has been vitally dependent on that fascinating fluid that flows thicker than water. The

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Can You Dig It?

A few weeks ago, my wife and my youngest son heard what appeared to be a lunatic shrieking in our backyard. They rushed out the door to find me standing in the midst of about a dozen freshly dug holes, waving my arms and yelling at our mud-covered, 10 month-old

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Just the Facts, Ma'am...

Now that JMP Genomics v4.1 has gone to production, I have found a little time to catch up on my reading. As I was perusing a recent issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), I was struck by the fact that the traditional limit of 5

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Mouse in the House

I bet you know the words to Three Blind Mice and Hickory Dickory Doc and have seen at least some of Mighty Mouse, Tom & Jerry, Speedy Gonzales, An American Tail, Stuart Little, The Great Mouse Detective, Flushed Away, Ratatouille, and Desperaux. You’ve hugged Mickey and Minnie at Disney World.

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Technology Ahoy!

We are privileged to live in an age of advanced science and technology. Software is one of the most amazing parts of it, providing complex programs to control mind-boggingly incredible inventions that help us with such things as unraveling the deep mysteries of genomics. As widesweeping as software has become,