All Big Data is equal, but some Big Data may be more equal than others

It’s often widely assumed that decisions made by algorithms are more “neutral” and “fair” than those made by people.  

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Biological models: Much more than just a weather forecast

Biological modeling is not yet in the mainstream of biological research in the way that it is in other scientific and technical areas like physics and engineering ...

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Python for next-generation sequencing

A story about how a challenging genome sequencing project demonstrated once again, what an awesome tool Python can be ...

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Biologists Flirt With Models

Early developments in biological modeling hold the potential to forge a knowledge revolution in biology  and to bring modeling into the mainstream of biological research … 

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An "Uncertainty Principle" for mathematical approaches to biological modeling

If you’re a biological modeler, chances are there are two words that keep you up at night. Those two words are combinatorial complexity … 

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