Kristina (Kay) Weber
@kaybfx
Genomics, biology, and science outreach. Employed by PacBio, but all posts are my own and not those of my employer.
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27-10-2017 16:49:35
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One of the first trio assemblies we have done is now published. A nice collaboration with Yury V Bukhman on the Nile Rat. An incredible model system for studying diabetes. bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… Vertebrate Genome Lab (VGL) @bllapin @jackie_mcastle Erich Jarvis
Out in Cell! We expand our understanding of maternal influences on the infant gut microbiome, with potentially profound implications for immune and neurodevelopment early in life Tommi Vatanen Damian Plichta Moran Yassour @MGH_RI Broad Institute cell.com/cell/fulltext/…
When are two SVs the same? Truvari knows! Our study shows that sequence content is important & consequences wrong merges have. Truvari has also been used by Genome in a Bottle for benchmarks. Great work by Adam E. BCM HGSC Genome Biology #Bioinformatics genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…
PacBio PacBio RTP Roadshow!! 3/23, 9a-2p, North Carolina Biotechnology Center. Register at events.pacb.com/discoveries-ro…. Looking forward to our speakers Susan Hiatt , NC State Crop & Soil Sciences 's Cassie Newman, Labcorp 's Jon Williams, and alex rubinsteyn. See you there!
Remarkable personal story from Sanford Simon Rockefeller University about turning his research to studying a rare cancer his daughter was diagnosed with. nature.com/articles/s4156…
Ever wish PacBio m6A calling didn't require subreads? We present our solution fibertools for fast and accurate identification of m6A at scale. Thanks to first authors Anupama Jha and Stephanie and the Stergachis Lab for allowing me to co-lead this work! tinyurl.com/33wnyzar