Nature Reviews journals have been around for a while, but might not be familiar yet to researchers in ecology, evolution, and conservation. We work a bit differently to other journals, so let us tell you a bit about ourselves and our process! 🧵 go.nature.com/3YUzTzB 1/7

Excited to launch our newest service -- Ginkgo Datapoints! 🧬⚗️🧪 Over the past 10 years Ginkgo Bioworks has built a ton of amazing technologies from automation to long DNA construction to complex -omics to proprietary data and AI assets. These tools had been kept in-house and only

Anyone remember Apple Vision Pro?

Nice nf-core bytesize talk posted yesterday from Phil Ewels on using Excalidraw for docs. I've been using drawio for years. Looking closely at this one 👀 youtube.com/watch?v=GGwGZO…

Splam: a deep-learning-based splice site predictor that improves spliced alignments genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… 🧬🖥️ github.com/Kuanhao-Chao/s… 🐍 pypi.org/project/splam/

The GenoPred Pipeline: A Comprehensive and Scalable Pipeline for Polygenic Scoring academic.oup.com/bioinformatics… Docs opain.github.io/GenoPred/ trailer youtube.com/watch?v=dKiG8U…

Engineered E coli modeling an artificial neurosynapse could determine if a number is prime, if a letter is a vowel, and the maximum number of pieces of pie that can be made for a given number of cuts. "Prints" answers by expressing fluorescent proteins. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Serial biotech founder george church has a new startup, and this time, he has skin in the game, quite literally. trib.al/VG2edHJ

Taxanorm: a novel taxa-specific normalization approach for microbiome data bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… #Rstats cran.r-project.org/package=TaxaNo… 🧬🖥️ github.com/wangziyue57/Ta…

Genome-scale models in human metabologenomics nature.com/articles/s4157… (read free: rdcu.be/dUsas)

The genetic history of Portugal over the past 5,000 years biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 🧬🖥️🇵🇹

CELEBRIMBOR: Core and accessory genes from metagenomes academic.oup.com/bioinformatics… 🧬🖥️ github.com/bacpop/CELEBRI…

Plant folks: DARPA biological tech office is launching a new program to use plants as remote biosensors for chemical exposure activity: eX Virentia sam.gov/opp/e6a24f58f1… industry day in Arlington Oct 10

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Weekly recap: what I'm reading about regulatory element mapping, phylogenetic tree analysis+viz, mapping cellular interactions with scRNA-seq, bioprospecting, transformers in single-cell omics, and the new nf-core/omicsgenetraitassociation workflow... blog.stephenturner.us/p/weekly-recap…

Who’s the Dodo Now? A Famously Extinct Bird, Reconsidered. nytimes.com/2024/09/20/sci… 🦤

Incredible name

Pangenome-Informed Language Models for Privacy-Preserving Synthetic Genome Sequence Generation biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🫣👀 Deep learning-based predictions of gene perturbation effects do not yet outperform simple linear methods biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Gene-level alignment of single-cell trajectories nature.com/articles/s4159… Genes2Genes Python pkg: github.com/Teichlab/Genes… 🧬🖥️