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This is an open-source graphing library available for Python, R, Julia (and more) that creates interactive web-based graphs.
What is Plotly?
This was a Roman legionary fortress for the Second Augustan Legion in the Roman province of Britannia at the site of present-day Exeter in Devon.
What is Isca (Dumnoniorum)?
What is 11:00 on every other Monday.
This is an edible structure that is often built with candy, frosting, and a tasty, spicy foundation.
What is a gingerbread house?
This programming language is the most used by bioinformaticians.
What is python?
This is the file that contains information about the probes on a methylation array, including their target sequences, locations on the genome, and sometimes, their methylation sensitivity.
What is a manifest?
This is a static code analysis tool used to flag programming errors, bugs, stylistic errors and suspicious constructs.
What is a code linter?
This person is the current systems administrator for ISCA and Exeter point of contact for Isambard 3.
Who is Andrew Cowley?
This is the number of members that exist in the bioinformatics slack channel.
What is 49?
This is a shiny, shimmering (splendid) plastic polymer used as a sparkly festive decoration.
What is tinsel?
This is an accuracy metric that captures the deviation between a sample’s DNAm profile and its expected profile given the estimated cellular proportions and cell type reference profiles.
What is CETYGO?
This is the property of a probe that can bind to multiple target sequences due to similarities in their DNA sequences.
What is a cross-hybridising probe?
This is an environment variable that stores the number of tasks in a SLURM job array.
What is SLURM_ARRAY_TASK_COUNT?
This is a Lua-based module system that easily handles the 'Module Path Hierarchical problem' providing a convenient way to dynamically change the users' environment through modulefiles.
What is lmod?
What is 7?
This saint is the patron saint of prostitutes.
Who is Saint Nicholas?
This OS is without question the worst to program on.
What is Microsoft Windows?
This is a flexible and comprehensive Bioconductor package for the analysis of Infinium DNA Methylation microarrays created by Kasper Daniel Hansen.
What is minfi?
This is an R package that helps you document your code by automatically generating documentation files from specially formatted comments in your code.
What is Roxygen(2)?
This is the IT company currently consulting with the ISCA team to resolve critical MPI issues affecting the compute nodes.
Who is OCF?
This is the number of bioinformatics meetings we have had this year so far (this one included).
What is 19.
This country was the first to decorate the Christmas tree.
What is Germany?
[or you can have a Baltic country that isn't Poland]
This is an R package for analyzing differentially methylated regions in genomic data, particularly from methylation arrays and bisulfite sequencing.
What is DMRcate?
This is the number of CpGs featured on the Infinium MethylationEPIC v2.0 BeadChip.
What is >935,000?
This is a service provided by AWS that simplifies deploying and managing web applications by automatically handling the infrastructure, including capacity provisioning and application health monitoring.
What is elastic beanstalk?
This is the SLURM workload manager error code that shows when log and error files fail to be created due to the requested directory not existing.
What is error code 0:53?
This is the number of times the word 'ISCA' been used in the bioinformatics slack channel.
What is 188.
This group contains the members: Sheepcote Clod, Gully Gawk, Stubby, Spoon Licker, Pot Scraper, Bowl Licker, Door Slammer, Skyr Gobbler, Sausage Swiper, Window Peeper, Doorway Sniffer, Meat Hook, Candle Beggar.
Who are the thirteen yule lads?
These two people are credited as the authors of the bigmelon R package.
Who are Tyler J. Gorrie-Stone and Leonard C. Schalkwyk?
This is the number of probes that are shared between EPICv1 and EPICv2.
What is 722,758?