#Sequencing

Simon Barnett

sbarnettARK

While I think 'liquid biopsies' will be viewed as one of the most important medical breakthroughs of the 2020's, I've got to admit that 'liquid biopsy' is a poor term.

Kevin McKernan 🙂

Kevin_McKernan

Inside and Outside of kids cloth mask worn all day at school.Plated on PDA with no selection.Central planning and it’s effect on evolution and anti-fragility?If 7B people all wear 300um

Bionano Genomics, Inc.

bionanogenomics

People often ask why structural variants (SV) are so important and why $BNGO is laser focused on revolutionizing the way they are detected in the clinic. Doesn’t the success of

Simon Barnett

sbarnettARK

Let's discuss a key aspect of vertical integration for diagnostics companies involved in #oncology testing:Synthetic Biology (#SynBio) We think maximum operating leverage will accrue to those companies who have bought,

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

New preprint out. We investigated whether we could detect evidence for genetic recombination in #SARSCoV2, and found none to date. We used (slightly tweaked) standard statistical genetics methods, extensive simulations

Loggyrhythm (Log/Loggish)

loggyrhythm

Cathie Wood, Ark CEO, penned a Op-Ed in the FT. “Stand ready for the big five technology convulsions reshaping markets” - In Ark’s view, any company not investing aggressively in

Matthew Lesh

matthewlesh

The biggest untold story of 2020 is that Moderna took just 48 hours in Jan to develop a 95% effective vaccine. It then took 11 months for vaccinations to begin

Ian Berry

LaughingGenome

We made an exome diagnosis in a rare disease patient this month using a total of 2 PE sequencing reads, several hundred bps beyond the nearest coding region. Interesting anecdote

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

Genomic sequencing of viruses from the #COVID19 pandemic can help reveal transmission patterns. Thanks to data sharing through @GISAID from groups all over the world, @nextstrain is now showing 1882

Goncalo Abecasis

gabecasis

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

Maneesh

Maneesh312

What’s happening in Kerala?Total casesKerala- 9,72,181Nation- 1,08,47,790Cases per millionKerala- 27772 (taking population 35 million)Nation- 8344 (taking population 1300 million) Active casesKerala- 65,413Nation- 1,41,118DeathsKerala- 3,

Pu Mahuku🦜

Sowi_Kiki

I just read an article on the ancestral hunter gatherer populations of Europe and MENA and its both surprising and not surprising.Essentially up until around like 10,000ish y/a Western Europeans

Neil Gemmell

ProfGemmell

Tuatara genome published today. Hitting the keyboard briefly between interviews to update on the key findings of this project. This could end up being a long thread. Lovely summary here

Benjamin Vincent

BenjaminGVincen

A on T cell receptor repertoire diversity in cancer RNA-sequencing studies, based on great work by @BortoneDante reported in @CIR_AACR: …https://cancerimmunolres-aacrjournals-org.libproxy.lib.unc.edu/content/9/1/103 (1/n) T cells k

Simon Barnett

sbarnettARK

A Thread ()Let's discuss long-read #sequencing, optical mapping, and the implications of a recent study (linked below). Please view my disclosures at the end. I've intentionally made this thread more

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

Given the large discrepancy in specimens collected in Dec that were sequenced and shared between the US and the UK, I wanted to follow up on the relative quality of

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