Chris Miller

Bioinformatics Grad student at Baylor College of Medicine. My online home is at http://www.chrisamiller.com/
For all the policymakers that still don't get it: Building Bigger Roads Actually Makes Traffic Worse. http://www.wired.com/2014...
Comment: C: Applying a task to several files in R - https://www.biostars.org/p...
I'm closing this up, since it's not a bioinformatics question, as noted below. This allow us to keep the site focused on the topics that the community can help with.  Please consider asking your question on Stack Overflow, or better yet, taking a little time to work through a basic R tutorial, which will help with both of the questions you've asked today. - Chris Miller
RT @glentickle: Someone gave my wife a "Chemical Free Weed Killer" recipe. I made some corrections. https://twitter.com/glentic...
RT @BrentToderian: Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity -Lewis Mumford. We've never said it better.
RT @PeterNurse1: The England team visited an orphanage in Brazil today. ‘It's heartbreaking to see their sad little faces with no hope,"’ said Jose, age 6.
RT @neilfws: Tip: real bioinformaticians don't say bioinformaticist ;) MT @ScienceCareers: An Explosion of Bioinformatics Careers: http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_...
RT @Moochava: Yearly reminder: unless you're over 60, you weren't promised flying cars. You were promised an oppressive cyberpunk dystopia. Here you go.
RT @VoteNoOnSeven: Miles driven per person in the StL region have been declining since 1998. There's little need to build new highways: https://twitter.com/VoteNoO...
"But by all means, continue saying athletes shouldn't be paid because they're in college to learn" http://deadspin.com/rashad-...
RT @PeterGleick: To those who say new #climate rules will destroy the economy, here's how past claims worked out. (non-snarky vers.) https://twitter.com/PeterGl...
Awfully quiet in the lab on Sunday. I should do this more often.
Ten good reasons to vote against the transportation sales tax in MO: http://www.stltoday.com/news...
RT @ward24stl: .@MoDOT yesterday: "We don't have enough money to maintain what we have." @MoDOT today: "We're going to add more lanes on I-64"
RT @BrentToderian: While the US economy grows, Americans have been driving less for 9 years now http://usa.streetsblog.org/2014... v.@StreetsblogNet https://twitter.com/BrentTo...
RT @matthew_d_green: People who work in cryptography think 'security' is trivial. People who work in security think 'usability' is trivial. They're all wrong.
RT @nextSTL: If you want to see real transit investment in St. Louis in your lifetime, our priorities must change now.
RT @nextSTL: And why should you care were MoDOT wants to spend $6B of your sales tax? This will set in place 30yr transportation plan.
Oh Yadi, this one never gets old: https://t.co/4uNlr905hQ
Speaking Up About an Uncomfortable Condition http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014...
RT @KMeltzSteinberg: This seems apropos given my recent experience. RT @wdebaene: What is peer review exactly? https://twitter.com/bowmant... via @tom_hartley
Don't invest in beachfront property. Sigh. http://www.nytimes.com/2014... "A rise in global sea level of at least 10 feet may now be inevitable."
RT @daviesbj: Profoundly beautiful essay by oncologist @peterbachmd RE his wife passing. Should be a reading requirment for all MDs http://nymag.com/news...
Science: mostly slow, frustrating, and non-significant. http://www.scilogs.com/expisco...
Good news from the UK, but there's still work to do: Half of all cancer patients now survive at least 10 years. http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-u...
RT @michaelhoffman: That is awesome. RT @erlichya @genomeresearch has a new feature to simulatously submit a manuscript and post it on @biorxivpreprint!
.@mward "some code that could charitably be called a script"? Sounds like a description of most bioinformatics software.
Judgemental map of St Louis: https://t.co/cgbjBykI91
6 overtimes in 4 games? This series is nuts. #stlblues
RT @pathogenomenick: I think I’ve reached the point in my life where I realise I’m never going to organise my music and photo collections.