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Using AI to find heterogeneous scientific speakers on November 4, 2024 by Prof. Jean Fan

The many ways to calculate Moran's I for identifying spatially variable genes in spatial transcriptomics data on August 29, 2024 by Prof. Jean Fan

Characterizing spatial heterogeneity using spatial bootstrapping with SEraster on July 23, 2024

I use R to (try to) figure out which hospital I should go to for shoppable medical services by comparing costs through analyzing Hospital Price Transparency data on April 22, 2024

Cross modality image alignment at single cell resolution with STalign on April 11, 2024

Spatial Transcriptomics Analysis Of Xenium Lymph Node on March 24, 2024

Querying Google Scholar with Rvest on March 18, 2024

Alignment of Xenium and Visium spatial transcriptomics data using STalign on December 27, 2023

Aligning 10X Visium spatial transcriptomics datasets using STalign with Reticulate in R on November 5, 2023

Aligning single-cell spatial transcriptomics datasets simulated with non-linear disortions on August 20, 2023

10x Visium spatial transcriptomics data analysis with STdeconvolve in R on May 29, 2023

Impact of normalizing spatial transcriptomics data in dimensionality reduction and clustering versus deconvolution analysis with STdeconvolve on May 4, 2023

Aligning Spatial Transcriptomics Data With Stalign on April 16, 2023

3D animation of the brain in R on November 8, 2022

Ethical Challenges in Biomedical Engineering - Data Collection, Analysis, and Interpretation on October 15, 2022

I use R to (try to) figure out the cost of medical procedures by analyzing insurance data from the Transparency in Coverage Final Rule on September 12, 2022

Annotating STdeconvolve Cell-Types with ASCT+B Tables on August 30, 2022

Deconvolution vs Clustering Analysis: An exploration via simulation on July 11, 2022

Coloring SVGs in R on June 17, 2022

Deconvolution vs Clustering Analysis for Multi-cellular Pixel-Resolution Spatially Resolved Transcriptomics Data on May 3, 2022

Exploring UMAP parameters in visualizing single-cell spatially resolved transcriptomics data on January 19, 2022

Animating RNA velocity with moving arrows on October 15, 2021

A tale of two cell populations: integrating RNA velocity information in single cell transcriptomic data visualization with VeloViz on October 6, 2021

Story-telling with Data Visualization on August 12, 2021

Complementing single-cell clustering analysis with MERINGUE spatial analysis on June 21, 2021

Randomly Generating Music with R on April 19, 2021

Animating the Cell Cycle on December 28, 2020

Using R To Find The Missing Faculty on November 30, 2020

Using scVelo in R using Reticulate on August 25, 2020

A Guide to Responding to Scientific Peer Review on June 17, 2020

Quickly Creating Pseudobulks on April 6, 2020

A Guide to Scientific Peer Review on March 23, 2020

Ten PhD Transition Tips for the Biological Sciences on January 23, 2020

RNA Velocity Analysis (In Situ) - Tutorial and Tips on January 14, 2020

How to write an abstract on September 24, 2019

Figure style faux pas on July 19, 2019

Single-Cell RNA-seq Dimensionality Reduction with Deep Learning in R using Keras on May 17, 2019

Automate testing of your R package using Travis CI, Codecov, and testthat on February 17, 2019

Online bargain-hunting in R with rvest on January 12, 2019

Interactive Exploration Of The Gender Pay Gap on December 15, 2018

Nih F99 K00 Grant Tips Example And Personal Experience on October 31, 2018

Single Cell Clustering Comparison on June 28, 2018

Get your R package on CRAN in 10 steps on June 18, 2018

Top 10 Must Use Terms To Get Your Next Nih Grant Funded on June 11, 2018

Data Driven Faculty Job Search on June 7, 2018

Visually Summarizing Differential Gene Expression on April 25, 2018

Interactive Honeybadger Laf Profiles on April 15, 2018

Interactive Tsne on April 10, 2018

Setting Up New Server on March 10, 2018

Stability Testing on February 28, 2018

Phd Program Interview And Application Tips And Advice on February 26, 2018

Biomedical Analogies on February 16, 2018

Interactive Visualizations With Highcharter on February 10, 2018

Fun With Word2vec on February 6, 2018

Simpsons Paradox on January 5, 2018

Barcode Doublets on December 14, 2017

Nih F Series Grant Tips And Example on October 19, 2017

Nsf Grfp Application Tips And Example on October 15, 2017

Connected Barplot For Series Data Visualization on September 21, 2017

Graph Based Community Detection For Clustering Analysis on September 13, 2017

Machine Learning Feature Selection For Diffexp Analysis on August 31, 2017

5 Useful Bash Aliases And Functions on August 13, 2017

A Practical Introduction To Finite Mixture Models on August 5, 2017

5 Must Dos For Efficient Bioinformatics on August 3, 2017

Custom Sequencing Library Bioinformatics on June 9, 2017

Multiclass Diffential Expression Analysis on May 31, 2017

How To Be A Research Parasite on April 28, 2017

Cigar Strings For Dummies on March 28, 2017

Practical Machine Learning For Everyday Life on March 19, 2017

Lsf For Dummies on January 25, 2017

Mapping Snps And Peaks To Genes In R on December 6, 2016

Identifying And Characterizing Heterogeneity In Single Cell Rnaseq Data on November 24, 2016

Signaling Network Reconstruction Using Bayesian Networks In R on September 30, 2016