{"id":20,"date":"2016-03-16T06:37:17","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T14:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gardylab\/?p=20"},"modified":"2016-03-16T06:37:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T14:37:17","slug":"scientific-snapshot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gardylab\/2016\/03\/16\/scientific-snapshot\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientific snapshot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian ran a day-in-the-life piece today covering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/occams-corner\/2016\/mar\/16\/life-university-scientist-tuesday\">a typical day for university scientist<\/a>.\u00a0It&#8217;s fairly spot on, though the accompanying photograph indicates the researcher clearly needs MOAR SCREENZ and there&#8217;s much more cake and much less emailing in the day than I would have expected.<\/p>\n<p>My day yesterday was quite typical too &#8211; a constant battle to stay on top of emails interspersed with various meetings and prepping some slides for this week&#8217;s class. It meant that I didn&#8217;t have time for any data analysis (I didn&#8217;t even pee til about 3:45), but I&#8217;m hoping to launch a couple of big jobs on the cluster today as well as possibly maybe think about sorting out the MD5 checksum error that has been plaguing a recent ENA submission.<\/p>\n<p>I am also in the final stages of planning next week&#8217;s little hackathon in Oxford &#8211; Genome BC and Genomics England recently signed a genomics data-sharing MOU, and Derrick Crook and I are jointly leading the infectious disease genomics pilot project. We have a few goals, including tweaking aspects of a mycobacterial genomics pipeline as well as designing an intuitive, interpretable report to share TB genomic data in the public health lab context (and that also happens to be regulatory-compliant). We&#8217;re tackling the pipeline work first with a little in-person hackathon next week, so I am flying over to the UK tomorrow night to launch that, as well as attend the Microbial Genomics editorial board meeting and be on a panel about data sharing at the Microbiology Society conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian ran a day-in-the-life piece today covering a typical day for university scientist.\u00a0It&#8217;s fairly spot on, though the accompanying photograph indicates the researcher clearly needs MOAR SCREENZ and there&#8217;s much more cake and much less emailing in the day than I would have expected. My day yesterday was quite typical too &#8211; a constant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2416,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gardylab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gardylab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gardylab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gardylab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2416"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gardylab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gardylab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gardylab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gardylab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gardylab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gardylab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}