This post animates the genetic signature of a population crash as it unfolds, attempting to shed a little bit more light on when a crash is detectable, and how long it takes to stabilise post-crash.

This blog is an introduction to two python modules, msprime (by Jerome Kelleher) and scikit-allel (by Alistair Miles), both of whom are based in Oxford at the Big Data Institute. They are both really great tools, and if you work with genomic data I would encourage you to take a look at them.

Docker is a platform for running applications, it enables us to ensure that we are all running on exactly the version of python, ipython and associated libraries. It can be thought of as a virtual machine, although with many handy additions.