Project Title Implementation of a new quality control program for RNA sequencing data Synopsis Modern high throughput sequencers can generate tens of millions of sequences in a single run. Before analysing this sequences to draw biological conclusions one should always perform some simple Quality Control (QC) checks to ensure that the raw data looks good [...]
Categories: Programming,Python
In the beginning of April 2009 I made a post on the Kite Aerial Photography forum and asked to recommend me a beginner rig and kite. I explained that I would join friends on a sailing trip from Breskens in the Netherlands to Lisbon in Portugal, and that that trip would be the perfect opportunity [...]
Categories: Kite Aerial Photography
Friends of Kristien got married. He is a software engineer from Belgium who now works for Google in Zurich. She is a pretty Polish girl. Together they decided to marry in her home country, in a little castle in woods of Tuczno. The place is pretty hard to reach, so Kristien and i decided to [...]
Categories: Cycling
What do you do when you have two weeks of vacation and don’t know yet how to spend them? You start flipping through the atlas. While doing this it occurred to me that friends of my parents own a little castle (Château de Pierrefitte) in the middle of France, about 500 km straight South from [...]
Categories: Cycling
Tagged: Cycling
In the weekend of 23 – 24 april 2005 I participated in the VanUden-Reco Stellendam Regatta on board of Taraké, a brand new Hanse 371. She’s a Judel and Vrolijk design, and if you know that Rolf Vrolijk is the designer responsible for the winning America’s Cup boat Alinghi, then you know that she was [...]
Categories: Sailing