Want to annotate HLA/KIR genes and genotype them in a phased assembly? Try Immuannot, a new method from our group. It can identify novel alleles and reveal complex haplotype structures that short-read based methods may have troubles with. Available at github.com/YingZhou001/Im…

What if you could recombine any two DNA sequences in a programmable manner? We discovered an RNA-guided recombinase that can do just that! So happy to have co-led this project with Nicholas Perry

Oh hey the Alberta government is having an townhall about the drought. I don't remember seeing any notification of this at all, but anyway Minister Schulz is up now. "I don't think Alberta will receive enough precipitation to prevent a severe drought," she says #ableg

Laptop spray paint artist in Rome.

Did you notice that there was not a Doonesbury in your Sunday Paper (basically any Gannett paper, including the Des Moines Register) here it is! See the thread for all six panels! (1)

When I was in the West Bank settlers attacked olive pickers, saying they were Hamas agents. IDF soldiers used the same pretext to stop the harvest. One soldier told me picking olives was a “political act.” A thread on things I saw while reporting for The New Yorker:

W.O. Mitchell was born on March 13, 1914, in Weyburn, SK. He was a prolific novelist, playwright, short story writer and scriptwriter. He also served as our first Literary Arts director from 1974-86 and played a fundamental role in establishing the program’s philosophy #TBT

The difference in 10x Genomics' Cell Ranger's default between version 6 and 7 is discussed in this thread, but it's such a big deal that it's worth its own thread. tl;dr: in v7 Cell Ranger changed how it produces the gene count matrix leading to a huge difference in results. 1/

Would you believe me if I told you that a single variant in a non-coding RNA explains ~0.5% of all undiagnosed individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD) in Genomics England ??? I didn’t initially either, but here is the story of RNU4-2 🧵1/9

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The Moon's shadow, or umbra over Canada and the U.S. as the International Space Station soared into the solar eclipse April 8, 2024.

if you ever need a little confidence boost just remember you can always play rock paper scissors with chatgpt

Y’all can read about this absolutely distressing situation of me trying to buy a home + learning that the seller didn’t want to sell to me because I’m Black, in The New York Times. Thank you Debra Kamin for your hard work investigating this + educating people about the Fair Housing Act 1/

This makes me sick! This is Russia

🚨SCAM ALERT🚨 There’s a new parking ticket scam we want to warn you about. Scammers are printing and placing fake parking tickets on vehicles, falsely claiming to be from Calgary Parking.

DRC - Mpox update: "The cumulative, from wk 1 -wk 21, 2024, is 7851 suspected cases and 384 deaths (lethality of 4.9%) reported in 22/26 provinces (84.6%)" flutrackers.com/forum/forum/af… h/t Pathfinder

GitHub update: Tamor, a Snakemake pipeline for Personal Cancer Genome Reports from FASTQ files + Dragen genome/transcriptome analysis, has been updated to work with Sigve Nakken’s 2.0 PCGR system! Now comes with working a public leukaemia data example. GitHub.com/nodrogluap/tam…

A previously reported bottleneck in human ancestry 900 kya is likely a statistical artifact biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

1) 🚨🚨 Story update coming// Here's why Marin Co and CDPH called the case of the Marin Co child a "presumptive" #H5N1 : Child is a toddler. Child was visiting Marin Co. -- not a resident. Child brought to ER by mom. The child had a "high" fever and had been vomiting for 3 days

A father recorded his daughter every week for 20 years [📹 Frans Hofmeester]