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Seven months later: Native plant garden project4

Kazu Nozue / 2019-05-07
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Clarkia unguiculata blooming […] Fig.2. Close up […] As I posted in January, I have lots of Clarkia unguiculata plants, which start blooming the last week in April. Although it seems become early dry season, plants in my yards are still green.
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Six months later: Native plant garden project 3

Kazu Nozue / 2019-04-17
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April 2019 lunine blooming […] Native plants have been growing and growing in my yards. In this early spring, lots of lupine plants have been bloomed. As I reported in Jan 16, 2019, our yards have lupine plants from native plant seeds mix. Surprisingly lots of lupine plants grew bigger and …
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Needs more cargo space in electric vehicles!

Kazu Nozue / 2019-03-30
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Electric vehicle (EV) became popular in California. Recently I can find more than one Tesla car during my daily commute. There are a couple of advantages of EV compared with gas powered vehicles; (1) higher cost efficiency (higher MPGe1), (2) lower maintainance cost, and (3) tax incentives and …
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Slide presentation in R with xarigan package

Kazu Nozue / 2019-01-30
As an audience of a seminar, it is difficut to follow presentation when screen is scrolling down that happens in regular websites. Esay convertion from RMarkdown to slides are described in Rmarkdown book. To make slides for presentation of your RMarkdown documents, xarigan package developed by Yihui …
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Three months later: Native plant garden project2

Kazu Nozue / 2019-01-16
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As I posted in last fall, I started watering early November 2018 and late rainy season has started after the tragic wild fire (“Butte Camp Fire”). On January 2019 I’ve noticed a couple of unfamiliar plants in my yards (Fig. 1), which should be one of native plants in California …
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Confirming genotypes by visualizing mutations from RNAseq data

Kazu Nozue / 2019-01-08
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RNAseq is a powerful tool for transcriptome analysis. It is also useful for genotyping (for example, 1). Here I demonstrated an example of confirmation of genotype used for RNAseq. There are some unavoidable errors due to unexpected mistakes in many steps (eg. contamination of seeds, contamination …