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Scott Cain

@scottcain@genomic.social

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Long time #bioinformatician. I'm a research professor at Penn State working on #Galaxy, and I’m still sort of the coordinator of the #GMOD project (emeritus) (http://gmod.org) and have been a developer on things like #WormBase, group lead on the Alliance of Genome Resources, and project manager of a few other OSS projects (covid and cancer). San Diego.

Profile pictures is a screenshot of #JBrowse2 showing synteny between two Caenorhabditis species.

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381 Followers

803 Following

24 Posts

Joined November 02, 2022

GitHub:

https://github.com/scottcain

GMOD:

http://gmod.org/

scottca.in:

https://scottca.in/2023/07/20/mastodon/

Galaxy:

https://usegalaxy.org/

Scott Cain @scottcain@genomic.social

· 2mo ago

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First: 5 decades and I quickly thought to myself “he’s old” and then almost as quickly “oh, 5 decades for me too.” Second, I frequently find those rabbit holes entertaining (tho usually not exactly fun). They feel to me like an important part of the learning process @hal_pomeranz@infosec.exchange

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Scott Cain @scottcain@genomic.social

· 5mo ago

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The original had color changing ink!!? Now I want one too! @lockelyfox @eiranix

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Scott Cain @scottcain@genomic.social

· 6mo ago

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Camp Halfblood jersey? @freakboy3742

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Scott Cain @scottcain@genomic.social

· 5mo ago

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I would add that the 2236 current database doesn’t include the 226 databases that have disappeared since the last time NAR published the databases issue. I don’t know what those databases were, but I imagine at least some of them had human curated information that disappeared when the databases went offline. @brembs@mastodon.social @jonny@neuromatch.social @ipsquiggle@sunny.garden

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Scott Cain @scottcain@genomic.social

· 5mo ago

I started my first repo on @Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de ; I imagine I'll start porting my personal repos to it over the next few months. It was pretty painless.

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Codeberg (@Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de) - social.anoxinon.de - Mastodon

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Scott Cain @scottcain@genomic.social

· 5mo ago

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Go that way really fast. If something gets in your way, turn. @octothorpe

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Scott Cain @scottcain@genomic.social

· 3mo ago

I would guess that, given the fleurdelis in O in Fox that this is the Fox affiliate in New Orleans. No idea if they are Nazi affiliated though.
@pixplz@mastodon.social @targetdrone@mastodon.social @the5thColumnist@ottawa.place

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Schools are superspreaders (@pixplz@mastodon.social) - Mastodon

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Scott Cain @scottcain@genomic.social

· 3mo ago

I have to say the thing I really enjoyed about the Spain v Cape Verde game is the video of the faces of the dejected Spanish attackers after a shot on goal got blocked. I may need a screensaver of those. #ESPCPV

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Scott Cain @scottcain@genomic.social

· 5mo ago

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For my personal repos, I don't make use of any actions, which I think would be the thing that would be the most difficult to port from another service. I expect it to be just as reliable as another git service for commits, pushes and pulls, which is what I'm going to be using it for. If I run into weirdness, though, I will post about it. @EpicBear@genomic.social @Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de

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Scott Cain @scottcain@genomic.social

· 5mo ago

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OK, more info; I went back to the house and got a better look at the art work. I turns out, it's painted on the wall! That means, the only way to get that particular piece is to buy the house and not paint that wall! Thanks everybody for suggestions though; I still might find something I like among those options.

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Scott Cain @scottcain@genomic.social

· 5mo ago

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This feels promising. The movie poster and this art are thematically in the right direction, though the dragon is too short and the horns aren’t the same. I’ll keep looking. Thanks! https://mir-s3-cdn-cf.behance.net/projects/404/4508bb145337617.Y3JvcCwyNDgwLDE5MzksMCw3ODU.jpg @adub@beige.party

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Scott Cain @scottcain@genomic.social

· 5mo ago

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Interesting. While the dragon isn’t nearly the same, the sword in the left hand and the rest of the depiction of the girl feels on target. In the illustration I saw, it was much more “zoomed out”: the girls was much smaller compared to the dragon @solderandchaos@mastodon.me.uk @mirijb2@c18.masto.host

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Scott Cain @scottcain@genomic.social

· 8mo ago

Any Aspergillus researchers around here? I'm not one, but I'm giving a talk on BRC-Analytics/Galaxy next month and would like to replicate an analysis in a recent paper. Can somebody point to a recent paper that might be well known in the community that involved sequencing (like variant calling/pop gen, RNASeq/transcriptomics/differential expression, etc)? Thanks! #fungi #fungal

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Scott Cain @scottcain@genomic.social

· 6mo ago

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Yes, this is exactly what I’m worried about. I’m not too worried about senior people using LLMs for “schlep work” but anybody who hasn’t been working in their field for 15 or 20 years will not go through the confusion enough to gain the skill they need @gedankenstuecke

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Scott Cain @scottcain@genomic.social

· 8mo ago

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@blogdiva@mastodon.social Brains are so weird. I saw the picture, quickly read the post and then thought to myself “but wait, what did Harry Hamlin have to do with the effects of that movie” then I reread the post and saw that he was not mentioned. My brain just filled it in

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Scott Cain @scottcain@genomic.social

· 18mo ago

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@TheLancashireman@hostux.social @Janeishly@mastodonapp.uk I came here to say exactly that: "56k, you should have seen 14.4k, and before that I used my dad's 300 baud modem with dumb vt100 terminal dialing into a VAX"

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Scott Cain @scottcain@genomic.social

· 45mo ago

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@peteriskrisjanis@toot.lv @stargirl@hachyderm.io I don’t remember have the same level of problems with CPAN that I have with python environments.

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Scott Cain @scottcain@genomic.social

· 7mo ago

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Looking at it from the outside, I find it interesting that they use per mile rather than per capita, since per capita is So Much Easier to calculate and doesn't involve so much inference about how much driving is being done. It feels like it's been purposely hiding the truth all along (which, it seems like is true from your reporting). @davidzipper

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Scott Cain @scottcain@genomic.social

· 5mo ago

Inter Miami: what an epic collapse! #MLS

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Scott Cain @scottcain@genomic.social

· 5mo ago

Dang it! #WaveFC

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Scott Cain @scottcain@genomic.social

· 5mo ago

Yeah, I tried adding Mulan to some queries but didn’t find much that wasn’t Disneyfied
@mirijb2@c18.masto.host

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Scott Cain @scottcain@genomic.social

· 3mo ago

Crap. I guess I really need to stop playing #PokemonGo :-/

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