#Genomes

Ancient maize genomes! Our new research #openaccess in @PNASNews. There’s a rockshelter in Honduras—El Gigante—with amazing organic preservation of plants. Avocado, squashes and gourds, agave, lots more species spanning the
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Our recent preprint of genetic epidemiology of #immune #escape variants from global #SARSCoV2 genomeshttps://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.24.424332v1 A number of genetic variants in #SARSCoV2 are associated with immune escape - a
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Tired of clicking the refresh button on the NYtimes election update page? Try clicking here and reading our new preprint instead:https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.04.368217v1 This was a fun project with lots of great
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"#SarsCov2 has never been isolated" strikes me as arguably the most absurd of all the '#COVID19 myths', and this in the face of stiff competition on all sides of the
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The "United" States of America. The mistake the International Party has always made-and this fatal error mirrors the personality structure of their financiers and the "who" is behind the party
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At this point, the countries with most genomic data to analyze spread of the variant virus belonging to https://cov-lineages.org  B.1.1.7 lineage or @nextstrain clade 20I/501Y.V1 are the UK, Denmark and
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I'm back and this time I'm loath to explain that SARS-CoV-2 ≠ influenza. This is really exhausting. Can people please just not opine on subjects they don't know about. Stop
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New preprint on #SARSCoV2 adaptation to transmission in minks. We identify a set of mutations that have been acquired multiple times in strains circulating in mink farms, and that are
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By naming 'a variant' we are flagging it as being of concern even if it probably isn't (relative to other circulating lineages). Back in April proposed a lineage naming system
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1/ The ONS infection survey has come out, and the graph below has led some people to speculate that B.1.1.7 isn't more transmissible any more. Unfortunately I don't think we
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Thread. It's #WorldCancerDay . Many #Bloomberg Distinguished Professors are involved in multidisciplinary research efforts here at @JohnsHopkins. Here are a few examples. Alex Szalay, a leader in big data,
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1/ Today has brought a lot of news about 'variants', as we discover community transmission of B.1.351 (SA variant) in the UK. But some of the people who study these
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The word #Microbiome is derived from the word "biome", i.e. a distinct environmental habitat, in which microbes occupy and are part of. A Microbiome is therefore a spatially distinct environment
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Eric's generally pretty great, but this is clearly wrong and the wrong way to consider this problem. A more useful calculation would be number of 30kb genomes within, say, 5%
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This paper was a longtime coming. In no particular order, some of the interesting things to learn from the sequencing and analysis of 53,831 human genomes. 1/nhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03205-yPDF: https://www.nature.com/art
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This mammoth tooth is 1.2 million years old.We have recovered DNA from it. This is the oldest DNA ever sequenced.The results are published today in Nature:https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03224-9[THREAD] We analyzed genomes
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