TL; DR; The good: A powerful Linux laptop with reasonable price that just works Pretty lightweight (2.87 lbs) It never gets very hot Lots of ports The bad: Trackpad is “sticky” Short battery life Fifteen years ago I was in graduate school doing research in population genetics. My favorite procrastination…

On December 11, 2019 my husband and I took a direct flight from Washington DC Dulles airport to Sal, Cape Verde. Not many people know this country, never mind where it is in the world. Why would you want to go there, you may ask. Well, for me it…

I enjoy programming and have no problem concentrating to write code in order to solve a problem. However, when it comes to writing reports, papers, or worse, grant proposals, I tend to procrastinate a lot. I can certainly related to this tweet: Recently I wrote quite a few…

Last September, I took a two-week road trip through Croatia, Bosnia, and Montenegro with my parents. It was amazing. …

A data scientist perspective — I recently passed the AWS Machine Learning Specialty exam and received quite a few questions on how to prepare for it. So I thought I would write a few tips from a data scientist perspective. …

When I learned in 2018 that Dante Labs was promoting their €169 30X whole genome sequencing (WGS) I immediately jumped on it. I have been working with Next Generation Sequencing data since I joined Illumina Inc in 2009 as a bioinformatics scientist. Recently, at the Inova Translational Medicine Institute…