Bradford Condon, PhD

This guide will demonstrate using the Tripal HeadQuarters (HQ) module . The datasets module inspired Tripal HQ The Tripal Chado Dataset…

This guide will demonstrate using the Features module to export and import Tripal Bundle Field settings. A simple use case Consider a case…

Introduction Link: original GitHub issue I found myself in a predicament: I wanted to include a dynamic element in my Tripal field's…

This week, we'll be moving the Tripal documentation over to ReadTheDocs. I've already put the Tripal DevSeed documentation online. This…

This week I made a super simple Jekyll-powered site to show off the modules I've developed for Tripal ! Overview We were discussing ways to…

This guide is for developers looking to contribute code to the core Tripal project. It introduces the testing philosophy and guidelines for…

I was recently tasked with using the Tripal GFF loader to add genomic coordinates to our mRNA features. The Tripal.info tutorial covers…

Welcome to Tripal Country! Today I'm sharing my suggestions on how to set up your module. For your database Organizational Groups Add your…

Welcome to Tripal Country! This week I'm excited to announce we've set up Travis Continuous Integration with Tripal! This means every time…

Welcome to Tripal Country! Tripal feature annotations might be a little unintuitive, especially for non-biologists. This guide is to…

Welcome to Tripal Country! This is a short guide to demonstrate how to create new bundle types with Chado storage in Tripal 3. It was…

In the previous post , we learned about using scales to format our x and y axes, s well as our bar coloring. In this post I want to address…

The 2018 Tripal hackathon took place at the Plant & Animal Genomes conference in San Diego January 11th & 12th. I'd post the itinerary and…

As a Tripal developer, one of the fun things I get to do is contribute not only to the Tripal project, but also other parts of GMOD, the…

This post is part 8 of a series on bioinformatics file formats, written for the 2017 UK-KBRIN Essentials of Next Generation Sequencing…

This post is part 4 of a series on file formats, written for the 2017 UK-KBRIN Essentials of Next Generation Sequencing Workshop at the…

In our previous lesson , we created this rudimentary plot. D3 considers the upper left corner of the SVG to be 0,0. This means that the…

D3js (Data-Driven Documents) is a Javascript library that manipulates the DOM and is often used to build SVG plots. I recently created an…

introduction I hosted my first Software Carpentry workshop on December 18th and 19th 2017 in Knoxville Tennessee with my co-instructors Meg…

I am happy to announce I will be instructing a Software Carpentry Workshop at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. The workshop will be…

In a previous blog post , I announced my excitement for becoming a certified Software and Data Carpentry instructor. As I complete my…

This week(September 25th & 26th 2017), I will be certified as a Software and Data Carpentry instructor. As of 2017-06-26, there were 96…

Early this year, I joined Meg Staton's group at the University of Tennessee as a mobile and web developer. My major project since then has…

This post is part 10 of a series on bioinformatics file formats, written for the 2017 UK-KBRIN Essentials of Next Generation Sequencing…

This post is part 8 of a series on bioinformatics file formats, written for the 2017 UK-KBRIN Essentials of Next Generation Sequencing…

This post is part 7 of a series on file formats, written for the 2017 UK-KBRIN Essentials of Next Generation Sequencing Workshop at the…

This post is part 6 of a series on file formats, written for the 2017 UK-KBRIN Essentials of Next Generation Sequencing Workshop at the…

This post is part 5 of a series on file formats, written for the 2017 UK-KBRIN Essentials of Next Generation Sequencing Workshop at the…

This post is part 3 of a series on file formats, written for the 2017 UK-KBRIN Essentials of Next Generation Sequencing Workshop at the…

This post is part 2 of a series on file formats, written for the 2017 UK-KBRIN Essentials of Next Generation Sequencing Workshop at the…

On April 29th 2017, the Expanding Your Horizons conference came to Kentucky for the first time. The conference was funded by an NSF…

UK-BLAST workshop 2016 This tutorial was developed for Dr. Mark Farman at the University of Kentucky for Undergraduate students…

UK-BLAST workshop 2016 These exercises were developed for Dr. Mark Farman at the University of Kentucky for Undergraduate students…

As you can see below, the navigation tabs I'm using at the top of my page didn't properly update depending on what page the user is at…

I previously announced a Workshop we hosted at Floracliff on mushroom identification In October 2016 . It's been a while but I wanted to…

Knitting R Markdown to Jekyll This is a test of the Knittr package and Jekyll. It looks like the original package for using knitr with…

Switching to Jekyll This weekend I switched my site from a Wordpress site hosted by bluehost to a Jekyll site hosted on githubpages. I'm…

I'm excited to announce that, a collaboration between Dr. Ellen Crocker, Dr. Susan Odom and myself has secured an NSF EPSCoR (National…

I ’ m excited to announce that my wife Dr. Ellen Crocker and I will be teaching a workshop at the Floracliff Nature Sanctuary  on Friday…

I am now the technical officer for the University of Kentucky Society of Postdoctoral Scholars (SOPS). If you have any questions about SOPs…

For those of you running MacQIIME on OSX El Capitan or higher, you may (like me) find that the MacQIIME executable is no longer in your path…

Sometimes, you have a task where the goal is to remove a certain phrase, set of characters, or trailing characters within a file. This…

  I wanted to plot out SNPs along a chromosome. I was starting with SNP tables that were roughly equivalent to a .bed file: Where the first…

Phyloseq is a fantastic R package that really helped me get started in R.  If you need to process your metagenomic data but lack the…

Education August 2013, PhD in Plant Pathology & Plant-Microbe Interactions, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY May 2007, BA in Biology and…

When I taught a science for non-science majors at Cornell University, my favorite lecture was on science in the popular media.  My learning…

The vocabulary can be a little silly, but immersion is good.

Last year, I wrote about using Evernote as my digital lab notebook.   With the release of Findings, a new digital notebook software from…

Well, the BBC and The New York Times have both published pieces on the Russian hackers “ CyberVor ” .  The claim is that  1.2 billion…

MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses)  are an interesting development in higher education.  At their most impressive, they are a way for…

This morning I was delighted to come across the IMA Fungus journal .  Put out by the International Mycological Association , the journal…

You're finished!  You've spent hours writing and rewriting your thesis or dissertation (such semantics!), braved your defense, and spent…

Back in September last year, I explored some possibilities that the “ Stem Cell burger ” opened up.   Perhaps the most far-fetched idea I…

In the past, I ’ ve written about the importance of setting up custom newsfeeds for current publications in your field, and using CiteUlike…

What does it mean to be a scientist?  I present to you some overly poetic thoughts on the topic. It was a soggy morning in early Fall when I…

An article posted on the Scientific American blog  caught my attention recently.  Researchers have discovered the existence of a new…

I am  writing a short piece on the Stem Cell Burger  which was unveiled early last month.  The  Cultured Beef website  is eager to point…

Twitter bootcamp  starts today!  It ’ s put together by my fellow Oberlin alumn Ma ’ ayan Plaut, who is a social media role model.  If you…

(This post is a continuation of my science RSS series, found here Once you ’ ve identified RSS feeds you ’ d like to follow, you need to…

When I first started graduate school, I kept an old-fashioned notebook.  A 4 × 4 quad ruled Roaring Spring Lab Notebook. It had gridlines…

The Florida Stand Your Ground controversy has everyone talking (and nevermind that neither case officially invoked said law).  And a mother…

I love Mekentosj ’ s Papers , and encourage you to check it out if you are on a mac and keep digital literature. One of the things that…

Warning:  probably some incredibly mild spoilers below regarding the game. The Last of Us is a new survival action horror  videogame for…

I was reading this Nature article  by Kim Gardiner and Hugh Kearns on snack writing.  Their argument is that scientists who write in a…

I am featured in this week ’ s CALS “ scientifink ” writeup! I happen to love my ascospore tattoo, and am happy to share it with the world…

Do you schedule breaks and rests during your working, writing, and learning?  Do you make time for sleep in your life?   A new article by…

I am trying to write my PhD dissertation. It ’ s going OK, thanks for asking.  But it ’ s not going OK all the time. Some days, I can spend…

I ’ m pretty sure I have too many gadgets for managing my academic references.  I ’ d surely be better off if I spent more time reading the…