Progressives to Vote For and Support in 2020 Voting is tough. There are a lot of people running with a lot of motivations. Many of which do not line up with what you may believe in. This will hopefully help to serve as a bit of a guide to some candidates for someone that is looking to vote for the progressive left. Supporting policies like Medicare For All (Single Payer), The Green New Deal, higher marginal income taxes on the upper brackets, and potentially even wealth tax territory.

Samsung S5 The Samsung S5 is not a particularly great phone in 2019 considering its age. The specs aren’t terribly great nowadays. Many apps run a bit slow on it, some crash often (e.g. the modern incarnation of Google Maps is like letting my S5 drive Bumper Cars). The camera is just ok by modern standards and lacks any sort of expert mode. At the time though, the S5 was setting the bar for smart phones.

Screen, a Bioinformaticians Best Friend Screen is very likely the best way to keep things running in the terminal servers that you connect to. While dropping things into the background and booting them off with nohup so that they ignore the Sig Hup signal is an option, it isn’t as clean as screen and it isn’t so easy to just pick up where you left off, for instance, if you had something open in a text editor.

Using the GWAS Catalog Finding Bipolar Related SNPs Today we will be using the GWAS Catalog to identify SNPs (Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms) that are associated with Bipolar Disorder. Sure, there is an interactive search on the page, but let’s do this locally. Navigate to the downloadable files by first clicking the ‘Download’ link on the main page, and then ‘Files’ link, you should be here: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/gwas/docs/file-downloads The main file to get is All associations v1.