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Wouter De Coster @wdecoster.bsky.social · 22h

This one is recent and probably worth trying:
www.biorxiv.org/node/4905024...

Detecting Foldback Artifacts in Long-reads

Long-read sequencing data is useful for detecting large and complex structural variations; however, technical artifacts can lead to false structural variant calls. In our analyses, we became aware of ...

www.biorxiv.org

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Wouter De Coster @wdecoster.bsky.social · 7d

208Gb and can't tell you because it was for a customer
@timdepooter.bsky.social

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Wouter De Coster @wdecoster.bsky.social · 12d

Microwaving?

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Wouter De Coster @wdecoster.bsky.social · 12d

100%!

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Wouter De Coster @wdecoster.bsky.social · 12d

it has to wait until after the kids-bath-toy microbiome project!

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Wouter De Coster @wdecoster.bsky.social · 12d

We are hiring a postdoctoral researcher to identify genes involved in frontotemporal dementia using short- and long-read sequencing data. More information is available at jobs.vib.be/j/124543/pos....

Postdoctoral researcher - VIB

The Laboratory of Advanced and Translational Neurogenomics at the VIB-Center for Molecular Neurology, led by Dr. Rosa Rademakers, is seeking a highly motivated and talented postdoctoral researcher to ...

jobs.vib.be

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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 16d

NEWS! Nation capable of spotting spurious link between paracetamol and autism still baffled by obvious link between guns and mass shootings

Nation capable of spotting spurious link between paracetamol and autism still baffled by obvious link between guns and mass shootings

The United States has once again demonstrated its unique talent for scientific deduction by confidently declaring there may be a link between pregnant women taking paracetamol and children developi…

buff.ly

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Wouter De Coster @wdecoster.bsky.social · 15d

Small bit of the solution: don't check social media early in the morning.

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Heng Li @lh3lh3.bsky.social · 29d

minimap2.com is potentially a phishing site. Please don't use anything from that website.
github.com/lh3/minimap2...

Phishing site : minimap2.com · Issue #1316 · lh3/minimap2

Not sure how to label this one, but I have come across a website minimap2.com which appears to be AI generated but is serving it's own copy of the Github repository. If you search the address or em...

github.com

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James Bonfield @jbonfield.bsky.social · 23d

Heads up: ignore samtools dot org, similarly minimap2 dot com and likely others. It's owned by a known phishing site and while the binaries they offer look valid currently (but note they may be serving us different binaries to others), that could change.

Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned

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Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 29d

This is awesome.

@ellecordova.bsky.social

For our scientists

YouTube video by Elle Cordova

youtube.com

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Wouter De Coster @wdecoster.bsky.social · 29d

Aha that could be very useful!
Thank you so much for the ideas, I'm going to try this soon!

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Wouter De Coster @wdecoster.bsky.social · 29d

I currently have everything aligned to the human genome, so I could probably start by extracting the unmapped reads and use those for kraken?

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Wouter De Coster @wdecoster.bsky.social · Sep 9

Hmm, good question! Both would be equally interesting, but let's assume separate pathogen reads for now. I want to be unbiased about which species could be there.

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Wouter De Coster @wdecoster.bsky.social · Sep 8

Which tool should I use nowadays to identify pathogens in long-read DNA sequencing from human brain samples?

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Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social · Sep 4

Ok this is mad
"...an ant that lays individuals from two distinct species. In this life cycle, females must clone males of another species because they require their sperm to produce the worker caste"

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature

In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...

www.nature.com

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Wouter De Coster @wdecoster.bsky.social · Sep 3

*heavy breathing*

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · Jul 25

Facts

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Matt Loose @minomatt.bsky.social · Jul 17

For @nanoporetech.com geeks I’ve just been pointed at this very helpful site - nanoporetech.github.io/ont-output-s... - I hadn't seen this before and it's very useful!

Oxford Nanopore Output Specifications

nanoporetech.github.io

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Wouter De Coster @wdecoster.bsky.social · Jun 30

Could you send me a Zoom link? Is Teams okay?

The new coke vs. pepsi question.

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Keith Robison @omicsomics.bsky.social · Jun 30

Coukd It Have BEEN Found With Short Reads?

🧬🖥️

omicsomics.blogspot.com/2025/06/coul...

Could It Have Been Found With Short Reads?

Initially, the ESHG program was overwhelming. With the exception of the official opening and closing sessions, every timeslot had multiple ...

omicsomics.blogspot.com

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Wouter De Coster @wdecoster.bsky.social · Jun 26

That probably goes well with my new type of cold coffee, the depresso.

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Heng Li @lh3lh3.bsky.social · Apr 26

If you want to check if a human gene has copy-number changes or lands in a complex region, try pangene.bioinweb.org. Recently updated with more and better assemblies.

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Wouter De Coster @wdecoster.bsky.social · Jun 26

I like this a lot, but could the gene-search box perhaps be made case-insensitive?