Andrew Severin

Andrew Severin

His PhD was in Biophysics/NMR spectroscopy. He did a Bioinformatics Postdoc in Soybean genetics and now runs the Genome Informatics Facility at Iowa State University. He is passionate about evolution and the science behind the genome. There is so much we don't know about how the elements in a genome interact to create the fine balance of gene expression, modification and 3D structure that create the dynamic range of phenotypes we observe. As sequencing technology continues to improve and the cost continues to decrease, we will be able to ask more complex questions that increase our understanding via comparative and translational genomics.

Markdown

Markdown is a text-based mark-up language that is easily rendered into HTML and PDF.

Here are some of the top reason for using Markdown besides its format interchangability.

  • It has become a staple of reproducible science:
  • it can be rendered on GitHub (also Bitbucket & GitLab) and makes online repositories more readable and accessible
  • it is used as a notebook interface for R (Rmarkdown)
  • it is used as the markup language for Jupyter notebooks, which provide a notebook interface for many languages, including Python and R

  • There are some freely available editors that make writing in Markdown pretty easy

Markdown

Start with the Mastering Markdown guide by github located here.

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