Nicky Mulder discussing African Data Sharing & Access at GA4GH #10thplenary #H3Africa #elwazi

Really blessed to have a mentor like Tim ⁦⁦@Vi8tor⁩ !

From Brandenburg, Clark, Botha, Panji, Shakuntala Baichoo, Chris Fields, @cjfields.bsky.social & Scott Hazelhurst in BMC #Bioinformatics | H3AGWAS: a portable workflow for genome wide association studies | #GWAS H3ABioNet #OpenScience | bit.ly/3tKIYu4

Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have developed a drug that potently neutralizes SARS-CoV-2, the #COVID19 coronavirus, and is equally effective against the #Omicron variant and every other tested variant. ms.spr.ly/6015eW78P

Enjoying the very interesting presentations at ⁦ICHG 2023 Cape Town⁩ with colleagues from ⁦H3ABioNet⁩ and ⁦MADCaP Network⁩, along with ⁦Zahra Mungloo-Dilmohamud⁩ and others

Plan for network of Genomics Centres of Excellence across Africa nature.com/articles/d4414…

Researchers from the National Human Genome Research Institute-funded Human Pangenome Reference Consortium (Human Pangenome Reference Consortium) have completed a collection of new human reference genome sequences that much more accurately reflect global diversity! genome.gov/pangenome

Please RT and spread the word! UIUC College of Veterinary Medicine is looking for a tenure-track Associate Professor in Bioinformatics or Quantitative Biology:illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/careers… Tons of amazing research at UIUC and really great people to work with!

Had very productive TERRA working sessions at Broad Institute (Terra ) with Alessandro and Sushma, for eLwazi ODSP . Thank you very much, Alessandro!

James Taylor would have been 44 today ... The jxtxFoundation together with CSHL Meetings will start accepting application for the JXTX + CSHL Genome Informatics 23 Scholarship later today ...

Our Division Dana-Farber Division of Population Sciences is looking for a Senior Research Administrator to join the team - an amazing environment, science, and people! Please share with anyone who might be interested: careers.dana-farber.org/job/senior-res…

The Polygenic Risk Score Analysis #PRSUganda23 ended over the weekend but the collaboration between the participants/tutors continues The great hunger for learning manifested by the participants gives assurance of sure increased capacity and hope for more high quality science.

Aspartame, the sweetener found in diet sodas and many sugar-free foods, is now categorized as “possibly carcinogenic.” Dana-Farber cancer prevention expert Timothy Rebbeck offers his perspective. blog.dana-farber.org/insight/2023/0…

Equity, diversity, and inclusion at the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health: Cell Genomics cell.com/cell-genomics/…

The #GA4GH Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Advisory Group has published a paper in Cell Genomics! 🤩Read now: doi.org/10.1016/j.xgen…

Season’s greetings. Time to embrace your inner witch and your love of genomics. You can use our spell book anytime: genome.gov/genetics-gloss…

It’s an absolute pleasure to reunite with ⁦Nicky Mulder⁩, ⁦Victoria Nembaware⁩, Michelle and Zane at the ⁦DS-I Africa⁩ meeting in Kigali💕 The joy of reconnecting to familiar faces at these meetings always adds a special touch to the experience.

🚀 The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has been upgraded to SAM2, featuring an efficient image encoder for segmenting images and videos. But does SAM2 outperform SAM1 in medical image and video segmentation? We're thrilled to present our paper "Segment Anything in Medical Images

Our review paper on transformers in single-cell analysis Nature Methods is out! Great collaboration with Fabian Theis ‘s group! Congratulations to all the co-authors and particularly shoutout to Artur Szałata for his leadership in this project! More details can be seen 👇

🎉 Excited to share our preprint: "ECG-FM: An Open Electrocardiogram Foundation Model"! ECG-FM is a transformer-based model, one of the pioneering open foundation models for ECG analysis. The electrocardiogram (ECG) is a widely used, cost-effective diagnostic test with great