@sotneStatue Good luck. I'm sure you'll find @Bioconductor packages very helpful! There is also a lot of materials on how to do it.
Pst if you use R the hashtag we use is usually #rstats. You might get more help if you post it with that hashtag 😉
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Having to deal with a vendor who prioritised integration with a LLM rather than having a decent codebase is quite something... #bioinformatics#programming
And by decent, I am generous. I am starting to believe they never wrote software before, looked at the code of any other software before or even used software before...
@albertcardona :) the challenge authors updated the test set since the challenge so we had to submit our masks and the winning team's masks to get the scores.
The winning Mediar team used the Cellpose flow approach (our code) and used a transformer instead of a CNN for prediction. On this dataset, it doesn't seem like the transformer improves performance. We also tested transformers on an even larger dataset and did not find a performance boost (blue and black curves) (from https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.10.579780v2):
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Yikes - this looks like a pretty serious issue. Especially considering high chance that the original author of the package might have been behind the backdoor attempt.
I know quite a few #bioinformatics packages also need xz for compilation. Hate that we need to worry about stuff like this more from now on.
@naturepoker Um, this is a developing story but the idea that "the original author" of the library is behind the vulnerability injection is likely untrue.