We are delighted to announce that #ABACBS2026 will be held at RMIT, Melbourne CBD campus from 16th to 20th November 2026. Big thanks to A/Prof. Sonika Tyagi and team for leading this years organising! More details and official conference launch to follow! #bioinformatics @combine1.bsky.social
#nhmrc Investigator grant anticipated outcomes Feb 202…
Also 2pm Friday 27th Feb….waiting….
For more spoilers see @alexyfyf.bsky.social's post or read the paper! Our simulation and other generated data are available to the community for use in tool development and testing. A big congrats to Alex, and all other authors for this effort!
We found lots of interesting take-aways! For example, 1) reference free long-read single-cell RNA-Seq analysis works well! But, 2) ORF and protein prediction are significantly impacted by errors rates, and 3) compute requirements remain major obstacle for de novo assembly.
New paper from my group led by @alexyfyf.bsky.social. We started with simple questions: what is the best way to do differential analysis with long-read RNA-seq without a reference genome? and are long-reads fulfilling their promise of accurate transcript reconstruction compared to short-read?
"They sometimes found they had a difficult time being taken seriously when they moved on from those men."
Nerd!
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📖 Big news! We just released the first five chapters of our new book, Hello Data Science. It is a fully open-access resource written for beginners. Please help us spread the word! A few points about the book are below 👇
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#rstats #datascience #tidyverse
Great work by Hengxin Pan presenting at #abacbs2025 from @nadia-davidson.bsky.social lab @wehi-research.bsky.social CONCERTDR: an R package with a comprehensive suite of tools for drug response data analysis
github.com/DavidsonGrou...
The gang back together at #ABACBS2025 @jovmaksimovic.bsky.social @nadia-davidson.bsky.social and @belphip.bsky.social
10 incredible years of bioinformatics and computational biology community building by @abacbs.bsky.social - enjoying catching up with old friends at #abacbs2025 🥂
@aliciao.bsky.social @nadia-davidson.bsky.social @shazanfar.bsky.social @ellispatrick.bsky.social Jean Yang Belinda Phipson Milica Ng
Hi bioinformatics, genomics and CS friends! Please help me spread the word. I'm hiring a postdoc! Come work on cutting edge method development in algorithmic genomics with me and my group at @umdscience.bsky.social! 🖥️🧬
Inspired by our own (@rhea-longley.bsky.social) complex calculations, we hope this will save some valuable time ⏱️ for others!
Disclaimer: please remember to check the results with your grants team and the grant application guidelines.
Feedback is more than welcome! 📝
It was design with NHMRC Investigator Grant Applications in mind, but can be used for lots of purposes, like calculating the cut-off date for publication going backwards in time or when you fall out of eligibly for grants/awards based on post-PhD years.
Researchers, if you have career disruptions e.g. parental leave 👶, and would like a simple way to calculate full-time equivalent (FTE) years you might like our new calculator, eramezani.github.io/career/ - Written by @eramezani.bsky.social 🙌. Feel free to share around.
We @marine-omics.bsky.social are hiring. We're looking for a postdoc in population genomics. @janstrugnell.bsky.social careers.jcu.edu.au/jobs/postdoc...
Haha, the thought trail...
Seems like LLM might not be the best for that sort of thing, or at least not yet. Out of interest did you try any of the models that do reasoning?
This is disappointing to learn... absolutely no hope for the future of humans. Although, names are pretty tricky, so I'll forgive it that.
Is there an AI that can rewrite CVs according to the needs of each grant application? Genuinely interested. Imagine how much research we could do if we weren't reformatting CVs constantly.
An Analysis presents benchmarking results from the Singapore Nanopore Expression consortium project, plus a valuable resource of datasets generated from various long-read and short-read RNA sequencing technologies.
@jonathangoeke.bsky.social @astar-gis.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Come and set up a lab and work with us at @petermaccc.bsky.social
Very happy to release the single cell and spatial long read RNA seq module for our transcript discovery and quantification tool Bambu (Bambu-clump)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Our new paper examining how to analyse longread RNA-seq with no reference genome. We compare approaches for assembly and downstream analysis, from transcript accuracy to differential expression. Lead by @alexyfyf.bsky.social. Thnx to all contributors incl. @qgouil.bsky.social for the pea data!
No genome, no problem!
Check out @nadia-davidson.bsky.social and Alex Yan’s benchmark of reference-free Diff Expr. Helping us out with our 🌱 transcriptomes!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Happy new year's eve from Melbourne. Here's a count down created by my 9yo. scratch.mit.edu/projects/111...
My career trajectory is starting to make sense.
Bet it works in reverse too. Everytime you hear a talk on long lashes... ah I mean long read, you'll think about visiting chemist warehouse.