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Edinburgh Genomics
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The Genomics & Bioinformatics Core Facility at the University of Edinburgh

https://genomics.ed.ac.uk/
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📢 Edinburgh Genomics will be closing at the end of this year🧬🖥️
🙏 It's been a great privilege to support and contribute to so many brilliant research projects
🧬 Sequencing services at the University will now be provided through the Genetics Core:
🔗 clinical-research-facility.ed.ac.uk/core-service...
Genetics | Edinburgh Clinical Research Facility | Edinburgh Clinical Research Facility
The Genetics Core is staffed and equipped to provide secure receipt, processing, archiving and analysis of biological samples. Our team can provide support for your clinical research from sample colle...
clinical-research-facility.ed.ac.uk
📢 Edinburgh Genomics will be closing at the end of this year🧬🖥️
🙏 It's been a great privilege to support and contribute to so many brilliant research projects
🧬 Sequencing services at the University will now be provided through the Genetics Core:
🔗 clinical-research-facility.ed.ac.uk/core-service...
Genetics | Edinburgh Clinical Research Facility | Edinburgh Clinical Research Facility
The Genetics Core is staffed and equipped to provide secure receipt, processing, archiving and analysis of biological samples. Our team can provide support for your clinical research from sample colle...
clinical-research-facility.ed.ac.uk
December 8, 2025 at 12:57 PM
A few places are still available for this training course 🐍🖥️🧬

Don’t miss out, secure your place today and get ready to boost your research! 🚀

🗒️ Registration will be open until Thursday, 28th August 👇
📢 Ready to level up your coding? Join our next training course:

🐍 Advanced Python for Biologists
📅 1–5 Sept 2025 | 💻 Live online
🔗 Register: genomics.ed.ac.uk/event/advanc...

🧬 A hands-on course for life scientists ready to boost their coding skills in data analysis & tool development.

#Python 🖥️🧬
August 20, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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📣 Big shout-out to Edinburgh Genomics team & Alex Twyford for leading this work on teaching plant genomics! 🌱🧬🖥️🎓
Many thanks to all participants & to ONT for supplying reagents!
#Bioinformatics #Genomics #Training @edgenome.bsky.social @nanoporetech.com
🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
August 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
📣 Fantastic opportunity to join Joris Veltman’s outstanding group at the Institute of Genetics and Cancer, the University of Edinburgh, advancing research in reproductive genomics and genomic medicine 🚀🖥️🧬

📅 Deadline: 1 Sept

@jorisveltman.bsky.social @uoe-igc.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
August 12, 2025 at 11:13 AM
📢 Ready to level up your coding? Join our next training course:

🐍 Advanced Python for Biologists
📅 1–5 Sept 2025 | 💻 Live online
🔗 Register: genomics.ed.ac.uk/event/advanc...

🧬 A hands-on course for life scientists ready to boost their coding skills in data analysis & tool development.

#Python 🖥️🧬
August 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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New guidance published @ukrio.bsky.social to support responsible AI use in research
This guidance, part of UKRIO’s priority workstream on AI and research integrity, provides a principle-based, researcher-focused resource adaptable across disciplines and technologies.
ukrio.org/ukrio-resour...
Embracing AI with integrity - UK Research Integrity Office
Embracing AI with integrity A practical guide for researchers The UK Research Integrity Office (UKRIO) has launched new guidance to help researchers navigate the research integrity challenges posed by...
ukrio.org
June 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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#HiFisequencing with #PacBio is rewriting the rules for dried blood spot analysis.

With Ampli-Fi and SPRQ chemistry, even ultra-low input samples can deliver full, phased genomes that change the game for newborn screening.

Read more: bit.ly/4kbrzm6
June 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
🧬 🖥️ That’s a wrap on our RNAseq Data Analysis course!

🙏 A big thank you to everyone who joined us online last week to explore the world of transcriptomics — from QC and read alignment to gene expression and interpretation.

@edinuni-irr.bsky.social @roslininstitute.bsky.social @uoe-igc.bsky.social
June 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Join our Single-cell RNA-seq Data Analysis course, running 23–25 June 2025 online!
✅ Process single-cell RNA-seq data
✅ Perform clustering and dimensionality reduction
✅ Identify cell types and gene expression patterns
📅 Book now: genomics.ed.ac.uk/event/single...
Single-Cell RNA-seq Data Analysis – Edinburgh Genomics
genomics.ed.ac.uk
June 11, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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A new compression strategy to reduce the size of nanopore sequencing data. #DataCompression #Nanopore #SequenceData #Bioinformatics #Genomics @nanoporetech.com @genomeresearch.bsky.social‬ 🧬 🖥️
genome.cshlp.org/content/earl...
June 5, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Roche has given more details of their SBX NGS technology: it'll be called Axelios, and we know it's aimed at competing against Illumina SBS technology, the technology the San Diego company acquired from Cambridge UK Solexa.
I'll give you a second to catch up with it... Axelios vs Solexa....
June 1, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Starship giant transposable elements cluster by host taxonomy using k-mer-based phylogenetics. #TransposableElements #TEs #Kmer #Phylogenetics #Genomics #Bioinformatics #G3 🧬 🖥️
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June 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Comparative assessment of the Sikun 2000 sequencing platform for whole genome sequencing. #ShortRead #Sequencer #ScientificData
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Comparative assessment of the Sikun 2000 sequencing platform for whole genome sequencing - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Comparative assessment of the Sikun 2000 sequencing platform for whole genome sequencing
www.nature.com
June 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
That’s a wrap on our NEB RNA-seq Library Prep Lab Course! 🧪🔬
Big thanks to everyone who took part and made the course a success! 👏
Special thanks to Max Fritsch & Michael Skelly, from New England Biolabs 🦋, for their continued support!

Next course on RNA-seq data 👇
genomics.ed.ac.uk/event/rna-se...
June 4, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Want to get to grips with RNA-seq data? Join our online RNA-seq Data Analysis workshop from 16–19 June 2025!
✅ Perform differential expression analysis
✅ Use tools like STAR, DESeq2 & more
🖥️ Hands-on, expert-led, and beginner-friendly.
📅register now: genomics.ed.ac.uk/event/rna-se...
RNA-seq Data Analysis – Edinburgh Genomics
genomics.ed.ac.uk
June 4, 2025 at 9:14 AM
📣 We still have a couple of spots left in our online training courses next week!

🧬 Linux for Genomics (9–10 June)
👉 genomics.ed.ac.uk/event/introd...

📊 R for Biologists (11–13 June)
👉 genomics.ed.ac.uk/event/r-for-...

Don’t miss out - last places available!
June 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
📣 There are still a few places available on our upcoming #RNASeq library prep Course, running next week, 28–29 May, at Edinburgh Genomics. 🧬🧪

⏳ Don’t miss out – registration closes soon!
👉 genomics.ed.ac.uk/event/rna-li...

#Sequencing #Genomics #RNAseq #LabTraining
May 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
🔬 That’s a wrap on our Metabarcoding & Metagenomics workshop!
4 days of hands-on tutorials, microbiome insights, and plenty of Qiime2, NanoClust, and HUMAnN action 🧫💻
Huge thanks to our amazing participants & instructors!

#bioinformatics #metagenomics #EdGenTraining
May 12, 2025 at 12:17 PM
It was great to welcome colleagues from the
Sarawak Infectious Disease Centre this week!

🔬They visited Edinburgh Genomics, with productive discussion around genomics infrastructure, data generation, and long-read sequencing

🌏 Always a pleasure to connect with international teams driving innovation
May 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Join our 2-day RNA Library Preparation Lab Course at Edinburgh Genomics:

📅 28–29 May 2025
📍 Ashworth Labs, University of Edinburgh
🧪 Use @NEBiolabs NEBNext UltraExpress kits
🧬 Option to bring your own sample!

👉 genomics.ed.ac.uk/event/rna-li...

📸 See our last course in action!
May 7, 2025 at 10:49 AM
🚨 Our Intro to #Python course starts next week and there’s still space!

🧬 Perfect for #biologists & #genomic scientists
💻 🖥️Learn to automate tasks, analyse data & build #bioinformatics pipelines
📍 In-person

📅 Plus #R & #Linux courses in June!
🔗 Sign up: genomics.ed.ac.uk/training
May 6, 2025 at 12:23 PM
That’s a wrap on our first-ever Full Length 16S rRNA @pacbio.bsky.social Sequencing & Bioinformatics course! 🧪💻

From lab bench to species-level insight, participants processed their own data through QC, DADA2, taxonomic annotation & more, to create figures like this! 🧬👇
April 23, 2025 at 10:12 AM
We’ve just wrapped up the lab part of our new Full Length 16S rRNA @pacbio.bsky.social course 🧪🧬

Next week, we’ll take the data into bioinformatics—giving participants full end-to-end insight into the workflow. 🖥️

Join a future lab course 👉 genomics.ed.ac.uk/event/rna-li...

#Genomics #PacBio #16S
April 11, 2025 at 10:27 AM