What Are You LUCA-ing At? (Season 3: Episode 28)

Get ready for virus-enhanced cancer, mammalian functional diversity across the ages, characteristics of the Last Universal Common Ancestor, autocorrelation in R, and research awards from Sony. Science On. References: Endogenous retroviruses mediate transcriptional rewiring in response to oncogenic signaling in colorectal cancer Unique functional diversity during early Cenozoic mammal radiation of North America Saturation genome editing of BAP1 functionally classifies somatic and germline variants The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system Python Software Foundation - July 2024 Newsletter How to Extract Substring Starting from the End of a String in R Calculating Autocorrelation in R NIH: Building Sustainable Software Tools for Open Science NSF: Engineering Research Initiation Sony Research Award Program R Packages: rplanes: Plausibility Analysis of Epidemiological Signals SCIntRuler: Guiding the Integration of Multiple Single-Cell RNA-Seq Datasets WES: Tools for Analyzing Wastewater and Environmental Sampling Data