Author: Sander Timmer

PhD student in computational genetics at Cambridge University and EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute
How the junk food industry won the war against children.

How the junk food industry won the war against children.

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How the junk food industry won the war against children.

Wow, Reuters has published a scathing account of how the junk food industry bought the US government and defeated just about every initiative proposed to save children from the life-wrecking effects of their disease-causing products.

This is a must-read column for anyone curious about how our corrupt government fails America's children.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/27/us-usa-foodlobby-idUSBRE83Q0ED20120427?

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Users of Google Drive have more succes using the online viewer for Adobe Illustrator…

Users of Google Drive have more succes using the online viewer for Adobe Illustrator…

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Users of Google Drive have more succes using the online viewer for Adobe Illustrator files?

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Viewing of Adobe Illustrator files in Google Drive/Google Docs – Google Product Forums
Viewing of Adobe Illustrator files in Google Drive/Google Docs, Sander, 4/27/12 2:43 AM, I've been uploading several of my plots and posters to the Google Drive/Google Docs cloud to see how th…

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Kind of sad how much food-diversity is lost within a century.

Kind of sad how much food-diversity is lost within a century.

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Kind of sad how much food-diversity is lost within a century.

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This infographic shows a reduction of produce variety in the last century as a direct result of big businesses (i.e. Monsanto) controlling the world seed supply. It's time to change our food system!!

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Really useful to just have an R package containing the data of your paper so that…

Really useful to just have an R package containing the data of your paper so that…

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Really useful to just have an R package containing the data of your paper so that people can play around with it without having to waste tons of time finding all the data and matching it! Great job +Jacob Degner 🙂

http://goo.gl/zp4Zd

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Bioconductor – dsQTL
dsQTL. dsQTL, data excerpt from Degner et al. 2012 Nature letter. Bioconductor version: Release (2.10). dsQTL, excerpt from Degner et al. 2012 Nature letter on DNA variants associated with DnaseI hype…


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About me

I am a Lead Data Scientist at Microsoft in the World-Wide Data Insights CTO office focusing on cloud solutions for the Internet-of-Things, Big Data, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning. I obtained my PhD at the University of Cambridge specialising in Big Data Biology while being based at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL).

In my previous "academic life", I was working in Ewan Birney's research group. My main subject was understanding non-coding variation using genome-wide molecular assays, like FAIRE and CTCF, onto Human cell line populations. Another research interest was identification of whole-body phenotypes in Human MRI scans using Machine Learning techniques.

Furthermore, I'm the co-founder of Rijschoolvergelijker. The largest driving school comparison website in the Netherlands with European ambitions.

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