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Titus Brown
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I am not a deep man, but I have many shallows. ctbrown@ucdavis.edu, http://ivory.idyll.org/blog/.
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Preview of an important slide:
Snakemake is the best workflow system for biology; it's got a big community and a lot of users. Just use snakemake. Don't @ me.
September 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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I broke down. Krona diagrams are too awesome to ignore.

github.com/taxburst/tax...
A krona diagram generated with the taxburst software.
July 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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a simple metagenome content plot! cc @acritschristoph.bsky.social @bluegenes.bsky.social
a simple circles/bubble plot with four entries, representing content proportionally
June 16, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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At Davis Science Cafe, where @rebeccacalisi.bsky.social is talking today!
June 12, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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12 years of the lab represented!! From Michigan to Davis!!
May 22, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Kids these days.
"Food Delivery Services (DoorDash, GrubHub, Instacart, etc): Food delivery services are not allowed at Holmes."
May 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Brilliant course logo option for MBL Gene Regulatory Networks course, by one of the student groups presenting at the end:
Picture of the Always Sunny in Philadelphila conspiracy theory meme, but in front of a gene regulatory network
April 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Breaking eukaryote reference genome collections down into useful subchunks, via the NCBI Datasets API. github.com/ctb/2025-ncb...
An Upset plot showing the hierarchy of relationships b/t all eukaryotes, metazoa, bilateria, etc. Automatically produced by script.
January 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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From today's internal instructor training workshop at UC Davis DataLab: Ostrom's hierarchy of commonses applied to The Carpentries, Python, and R.
A diagram showing the Carpentries as a community of practice (CoP) in teaching computation, on top of Software Carpentry/Data Carpentry as CoP in _doing_ computation with Python and R - and also borrowing from the Python and R CoP.
December 10, 2024 at 10:36 PM
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Sequioa coffee mug by base camp
August 17, 2024 at 10:23 PM
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Applications to the MBL course on Gene Regulatory Networks are closing on Wednesday, June 26th (although we may be able to extend the deadline for a few days upon request). Please consider applying! It is a fun course with many amazing lecturers!
June 22, 2024 at 8:23 PM
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Yeah, I knew that.
23andMe: Did you know your DNA also impacts your health?
February 16, 2024 at 9:19 PM
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I mean... 🤷
February 5, 2024 at 5:21 AM
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Just gave a talk to a bunch of physicists ;) "Workflow languages in bioinformatics" (and mostly about snakemake) - osf.io/j8e6p
November 1, 2023 at 5:08 PM