About

My name is Erik and I’m a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania studying genomics and computational biology. I am currently working with Dr. Frederic Bushman on the microbiome of human disease and immune system dynamics after gene therapy. I worked as a developer at The Scripps Research Institute with Dr. Andrew Su and have helped develop software and frameworks related to biocuration and gene annotation.

The idea of a commonplace book dates from the middle ages and refers to the practice of keeping a notebook to collect notable facts and information picked up over time. That’s basically what I envision for this blog: a nice little place to store scraps, methods, hacks and procedures that I think are useful. If somebody else finds them useful as well, that’s awesome.

On Github: http://github.com/eclarke

On Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/pleiotrope

Email: {firstname}{lastname}@protonmail.com

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