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Updating a tool-related tag to match the tool's name - markduplicate -> markduplicates
I had a question related to Picard's MarkDuplicates tool, and wanted to tag the question accordingly. There is an existing tag, called "markduplicate" but the tool's name is spelled differently.
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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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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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Q&A section, what is it exactly?
@Terdon has requested a Q&A section on a rolling thread on an investigation about gene duplication. What is exactly meant by this and how to go about doing it?
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Medal tags, bronze, silver, gold
The medal tags for Bioinfo SE are limited, i.e. tags that lead to bronze, silver and gold badges. In particular phylogenetics is a non-medal tag but this disapline ...
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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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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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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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Would this be a good community for SBOL Q&A?
The Synthetic Biology Open Language is an open representational standard for encoding biological designs. As this community has been growing, it has been trying to figure out a better way than FAQs to ...
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When can we get out of the Public Beta?
We have been in the beta for more than 700+ days. What is the procedure and requirements to get out of the Beta stage?
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It's a bad idea to delete answers that include criticism towards the question
I recently answered a question which was promptly deleted by a mod, I realized now. I know I am new in this site, but I have been a long time user of SE sites and I think this decision is flawed. Here'...
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Proposal: remove [filtering] tag, replace with [quality-control] when appropriate
As of 2019-01-28, there are 16 posts tagged with [filtering]. This is an ambiguous and, at least in some cases, unhelpful term. Some of these posts are about ...
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Is the Pundit Badge available?
I see the Pundit badge listed as available in the badges help section but I don't see it as an option in the "Select your next badge" section of my profile. Also it doesn't appear that anyone has ...
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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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RStudio tag addition
I found myself asking an RStudio specific question. The question is more about how a function works within the infrastructure of the software as opposed to general use of R or of the package (Seurat). ...
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rtag suggestion
I feel like we should sort out tags related to graphics. Right now there tags
visualization, plotting, figure-explanation + tool/package specific like ggplot2.
I identify three distinct problems ...
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Improving the site after 1 Year!
In 10 days we will be celebrating 1 year since the launch of the site!
I think it is a good time to discuss and review how to improve the site, talk about things that are working well and things that ...
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Should we relax the requirement for disclosing affiliation on the site?
There is a general rule on the Stack Exchange network that states that if you post an answer suggesting something you are involved with (e.g. a tool you wrote or a blog post you authored or whatever), ...
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Is it appropriate to ask for method papers on specific topics?
Is it appropriate to ask questions here that fall into the literature survey realm?
Some of the bioinformatics citation trails are a rats nest and it can be difficult to find appropriate methods ...
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Divide tags by technology and target application?
Reviewing an edit I realized we have some duplicated tags or at least somehow redundant.
We have scrnaseq, rna-seq and single-cell.
Some numbers:
scrnaseq: 25 questions
scrnaseq & rna-seq: ...
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Would questions on whole cell modeling get answers at this site?
I am self-learning about whole cell modeling, specifically An introduction to whole-cell modeling and Fundamentals of Systems Biology: From Synthetic Circuits to Whole-cell Models. While my background ...
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Migrating bioinformatics questions from the Bioinformatics SE chat
There's a little bit of frustration in chat with regards to people asking questions that would be better asked in the main site. See here, for example. Some people can be encouraged to re-ask the ...
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Are questions about the start point for a future career in bio-informatics on topic?
I am a math undergrad student and I'm highly interested in applications of mathematics to biology, medicine and health issues. However, my knowledge about bioinformatics is very limited. I did take a ...
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Are questions looking for help to find data on topic?
There are some questions1, 2 about finding data suitable for an experiment or validate a method.
Are those question on topic?
I was going to post a new one but then I thought that it might be too ...
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Are electrophysiology questions on topic?
As a mod on Bio and CogSci I am faced with quite some posts that are overlapping in all three fields. In the field of Bioinformatics I see a lot of questions (relatively spoken, as the absolute number ...
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Are (brain) imaging signal processing questions on topic?
So as an example, here 's a brain imaging signal processing question on CogSci. Although this question is well-prepared and on topic there, it will very likely never receive an answer.
This type of ...
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What do you think about a tag for meta discussion about the state of the profession?
I was searching for a tag earlier to add to my question here:
What happens if a major bug is discovered in a bioinformatic package that has been used in published literature?
I wasn't really able ...
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Are questions about analyzing and/or processing human/disease data on topic?
I'm tasked with obtaining some data about chronic disease on an human population. One of these is to identify people with a chronic disease from the data set. Since chronic diseases definition varies ...
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Closing because a question is cross posted?
A question has been closed as off-topic, and the moderator who closed said in a comment:
This is already receiving sufficient attention on biostars. Giving it further attention here would be a waste ...
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Community promotion ads
Shall we start a small advertising campaign?
Some Stack Exchange communities vote on “community ads” — banners that link to other resources related to the topic. Highly voted proposals get free ad ...
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Should pure statistics questions be on topic?
This question was prompted by differential gene expression complex design no replicates.
While that question isn't very clear, it seems to be essentially asking for help on applying statistical ...
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Where are the bioinformatics questions in other SE sites? (Community wiki)
Subject: This page is specified for discussion for feature development to link this site with other sites those too containing bioinformatics question.
Related: should we import questions from ...
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Are questions about installing bioinformatics tools on topic?
Should we allow questions asking for help installing specific tools? Some of the tools that are commonly used in bionformatics are non-trivial to install. They can require other packages, environment ...
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[alignment], [sequence-alignment], [read-alignment] and [msa] tags
Let's decide here on the status for different tags related to alignment.
There are two groups of questions.
One is related to pairwise and multiple sequence alignments and algorithms. This field is ...
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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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Q&A-style answering bug where "40mins between questions" hidden by answer box
When posting a Q&A question, the warning that you can't post within 40mins of previous post is hidden by the "answer" portion of submission. When the answer section is there (i.e. the box has ...
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Should we be asking OPs to accept answers?
I have been seeing a lot of questions on here with answers, but most don't seem to have accepted answers (the check mark thing next to the answer comment). Based on my (limited) experience with SO, ...
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Should we allow questions where the title is not a question?
I think there are too many entries where the title is not a question.
Related discussions:
How do I write a good title?
Should question titles be phrased as questions? (A straw poll)
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Should [benchmarking] and [performance] tags be synonyms?
I just created a "performance" tag for this question.
I went to see if this tag could be added to other questions, and thought about this one, that happens to already have a "benchmarking" tag.
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What do we do with [software-recommendation]?
software-recommendation seems like a highly questionable tag to me, yet it’s collecting questions.
On other Stack Exchange sites, most notably Stack Overflow, software recommendations are explicitly ...
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Is it okay to write a post Introducing a tool?
I have just developed a new bioinformatic tool and I was simply wondering whether it is okay to write a post introducing the tool?
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Are we supposed to delete comments, once the issue has been resolved?
Sometimes a comment, leads to the answer (or question) update. In such case the comment is not relevant anymore, since it addresses a resolved issue.
Are we supposed to delete comments like this? E.g. ...
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Questions about commercial products where there are official support channels
Though inspired by this question, this tends to come up more often in relation to CLC Workbench. On occasion, people using commercial closed-source packages will post questions about using said tools ...
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General guidelines on creating tag synonyms and naming (personal opinions)
Recently, there have been a few threads on creating tag synonyms. I think most of these are not really synonyms. The following shows my thoughts about what are synonyms and what are not. I will also ...
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Can we add a [bedops] tag?
I was wondering how tags are added. I'm a new user to this SE site, so I don't have the reputation to add new tags. Can we please add a bedops tag to make it easier ...
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Make tags [read-mapping] and [alignment] synonyms
As far as I can tell, there is no noticeable difference between the tags read-mapping and alignment. Three of the fifteen questions under these two tags use both tags, and the rest seem too similar to ...
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How do we feel about questions that are essentially about text parsing?
A lot of the daily tasks of a bioinformatician can be boiled down to simple text parsing. Yes, we will be dealing with text files containing some form of biological data, but the answer might not ...
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Tag [file-formats] or [data-formats] to replace [formats] tag
As of now, 5 questions have been tagged with formats and since bioinformatics in practice is 80%+ file format conversion, we can expect many more such questions!
I ...
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Replace sam and bam tags with a single sam-or-bam tag
The discussion in the recent suggestion to make sam and bam synonyms seems inconclusive with users falling on either side of the argument.
I propose we instead remove both tags and create sam-or-bam,...
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Please stop cross posting behavior
Please stop cross posting behavior from biostars.org, where new questions are immediately transferred to this site. If you think you need this to boost your question count over the required threshold, ...
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