

Mark R@markrobinsonca@{genomic.social,bsky.social}
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@markrobinsonca
statistical bioinformatics; canadian/swiss; #methodsmatter #rstats; open science advocate; grumpy towards prestige worshippers, excessive admin and bros.








Interested in benchmarking computational methods in computational biology, generally? Save the date, submit an abstract, join us next March in Ascona! Conference website: sites.google.com/view/ascona2025 Please retweet and/or tell your colleagues!


Interested in benchmarking computational methods in computational biology, generally? Save the date, submit an abstract, join us next March in Ascona! Conference website: sites.google.com/view/ascona2025 Please retweet and/or tell your colleagues!








DifferentialRegulation pre-print online -> doi.org/10.1101/2023.0… *DifferentialRegulation* studies how splicing dynamics change between experimental conditions. It is based on a Bayesian hierarchical method (multiple samples) with latent states (for multi-mapping reads).


The "pay to publish model" has been terrible for sci publishing. And no, it was not initially popularized by commercial publishers. In fact, many publishers, including numerous society ones, would be happy to go back to subs 😅 (with all the problems it also has)