Welcome

…to Hannes Becher’s web presence! Hannes is a statistician at the University of Edinburgh’s Institute of Genetics and Cancer.

News

• Hannes is going to be demonstrating on a Carpentry-style course on statistics for high-dimensional data
• Preprint online on inferring the basis of genome size differences using k-mers!
• Paper published in Annals of Botany on intraspecific genome size variation in British eyebrights (Euphrasia)
• Juliacon 2021 is over now. It was great fun! The talks are available online.

K-mers

• Polyploid k-mer app, Tetmer (on GitHub)
• Watch Hannes’s workshop talk on fitting population parameters to k-mer spectra
• The corresponding slides are here

Links

• Hannes is former member of the Twyford Lab at The University of Edinburgh.
• British Bryological Society (BBS)
• Hannes is a fan of the Julia programming language.