#Genomic

Tom Inglesby

T_Inglesby

Very encouraged by the moves forward this week in the US vaccination effort. An average of 1.2-1.3M doses a day being administered across the country now (up from 700k-800K 2

Katalina Bobowik

KatalinaBobowik

I'm very excited to share the results of our new paper, now available on Biorxiv: https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2021.01.07.425684v1. Below is a thread of the main resultshttps://twitter.com/biorxivpreprint/status/134762719313285

Logan Kistler

LoganKistler

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

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

BREAKING—Tracing WH #COVID19: WH blocked tracing but 2 journalists donated samples to epidemiologists. “These mutations [in] these viruses are quite rare in US,” Bedford said. “I am highly convinced that

Lazarus Long

LazarusLong13

I've run into the 10,000,00 post-lockdown Wuhan study being misused, so let's dive in.Between May 14 and June 1, Wuhan, China, 9,899,828 people had nucleic acid screening done.https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19802-w First

Justin van der Hooft

jjjvanderhooft

The Paired Omics Data Platform just got out in @nchembio! Excited & Proud! Platform: https://pairedomicsdata.bioinformatics.nl ; Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41589-020-00724-z; or as direct read: https://rdcu.be/cfeHC&nb

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

New preprint. We assessed the source of T-cell X-reactivity to #SARSCoV2 in unexposed people. Previous exposure to 'common cold' endemic HCoVs plays at most a marginal role, and we found

Humberto Debat

humbertodebat

Sobre la nueva variante detectada en Reino Unido de SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19, algunos comentarios en base al gran trabajo de @arambaut @pathogenomenick @EvolveDotZoo @robertson_lab @alecarabo @erikmvolz et al y el consorcio https://www.cogconsor

Danny Boy

Care2much18

There's a myth floating around that meat factory outbreaks *must* be the result of greedy negligence on behalf of meat factory owners and/or related to living conditions.In some cases, that's

Jim Woodgett

jwoodgett

1/ Good article on the lag in tracking SARS-CoV2 variants in Canada. Short thread that’s going to annoy some people I respect and a COI: the tech I talk about

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

tldr RaTG13, the virus most closely related to SARS-CoV-2 was discovered by the WIV in a bat cave in 2013 where 6 miners contracted a viral infection leading to severe

Jacob Schreiber

jmschreiber91

Ready for a new "ML pitfalls in genomics w/ Jacob"? When evaluating ML models across cell types/individuals, you MUST baseline against the avg activity or risk being fooled by seemingly

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

I am not full sure people appreciate the impact of B117 strain on the course of the pandemic. TL;DR B117 is "a pandemic inside a pandemic" and demands both monitoring

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

I don't know how he does it but Dr. @paimadhu rapidly cranked out this wonderful piece featuring me and an all-star roster of amazing colleagues reacting to the welcome decision

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

When we say that "an algorithm is biased" we usually mean, "biased people made an algorithm." This explains why so much machine learning prediction turns into phrenology.1/ Researchers with phrenological

Kevin McKernan 🙂

Kevin_McKernan

This is the Final nail in the coffin of the current qPCR testing strategy.We have to get smarter about what we are targeting and stop harassing asymptomatic people.Now, let’s imagine

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