Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Let’s standardise some tags
Let’s standardise some tags.
For instance, there are already two competing conventions at work:
rna-seq
scrnaseq
Either both should use a dash, or none should.
I propose the slightly more readable ...
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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement
Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community ...
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2018: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in ...
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Standard language for comments asking for an improved question?
One of the first things I needed to learn when coming to SO for the first time was how to ask a good question. I suspect I'm not alone in this. I was fortunate to have responses to my first (poorly ...
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Proposing new tag for the Bioinformatics channel
I am a synthetic biologist working heavily on the modeling of genetic circuits and the development of software for bioinformatics. Many researchers and software developers within bioinformatics rely ...
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UniProt survey: Tell us what protein information is important to you
Please consider filling in this survey, on behalf of UniProt:
As biological data is growing at an exponential rate, we also have to prioritise the protein information we present. In order to help us ...
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2019: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...
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Synonymise [alignment] and [sequence-alignment]
While asking a question here, I noticed that alignment and sequence-alignment both exist. They appear to be synonymous; indeed, the alignment description reads, in its entirety:
These questions are ...
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Propose new tags for the COMBNE community
I asked a question yesterday regarding the posting of questions related to COMBINE standards and got a positive answer. However in order for a reader to filter questions related to specific COMBINE ...
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Would this be a suitable community to post Q&As related to the COMBINE community?
I'd like to inquire about using the bioinformatics exchange to post COMBINE related questions. COMBINE, as describe in Wikipedia is: "COMBINE, the COmputational Modeling in BIology NEtwork, is an ...
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Microbiome analysis tags needed!
We analyze the human microbiome using 16s sequencing. I couldn't find a single relevant tag for my question!
Tags Needed
General
16s
microbiome
microbial
taxonomic-assignment
16s-sequencing
dada2
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2020: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
