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Dan MacLean
@danmaclean.bsky.social
Head of Bioinformatics at The Sainsbury Laboratory, Hon Professor UEA Computer Science. Likes genomics, stats, proteomics, bioinformatics, R user, Python wrangler. Wiganer.
Thank you very much, Gaurav, I appreciate you taking the time to say so.
October 27, 2025 at 9:54 AM
2️⃣ For the love of all that remains sane in the world.
October 2, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Reposted by Dan MacLean
Chris outlining the different AI coding agents that can be used for ontology development. Working on documenting best practices for this ai4curation.GitHub.io/aidocs #BOSC2025 #ISMBECCB2025
July 22, 2025 at 10:59 AM
😀 This is good to hear. My kid is past kpop phase so won't choose it, but I put it on my mental watchlist as a candidate for one of those nothing else on, dad can still choose some good things, type evenings.
July 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Nice. An API is like a structured set of URLs for querying data that you can send to someone's computer and they'll send you an appropriate response. Eg api.mcdonalds.com/menu/sold/cheeseburger might return 31234543219494938263628 (some big number, anyway)
Api.mcdonalds.com
June 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
If it was a small sample I might try Internet archives set of scanned magazines, iirc they have ads scanned or you might find it in reviews archive.org/details/comp...
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
archive.org
May 23, 2025 at 7:33 AM
I use this yihui.org/tinytex/ (mostly through quarto so ymmv) but it's ok for that.
TinyTeX - Yihui Xie | 谢益辉
TinyTeX is a custom LaTeX distribution based on TeX Live that is small in size, but functions well in most cases, especially for R users. If you run into the problem of missing LaTeX packages, it &hel...
yihui.org
May 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM