#Genomes

The hidden history of #Covid19 is written in the genomes of coronaviruses. Here’s my @nytimes story about its discovery.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/science/new-york-coronavirus-cases-came-from-europe-genomes.html Some folks are asking “Where i

Dear Mr. President: It is important that you and everyone else understand the science of #covid19 because people’s lives depend on it. Let me correct the mistakes in your tweet.

A US president praises authoritarian leaders & openly supports their efforts to crush a free press. Years ago, when @nytimes reporters in China were threatened w/ expulsion, the Obama White

Plant pan-genomes are the new trend! This is now possible becuz of reduced seq cost, long reads, better algorithms, and the need to understand within-species diversity. A quick thread 1/4All

Prof Francois Balloux

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This paper is extraordinary, and not for its contribution to human knowledge. It epitomises many things that are deeply wrong with academia. It actually makes me feel a bit dirty

Great story in @nytimes about how #COVID19 spread to NY, based on genomes posted by @AdrianaHeguy @VivianaSimonLab & others to @GISAID. @nextstrain maintains fabulous visualizations of these data. Thought I'd

Andrew Rambaut 🦠🧬🌲🔮🤦‍♂️

There are many things that are terribly wrong about this paper. Both in its content, findings and route to publication.https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/04/07/2004999117 The first is that tries to root a SARS-CoV-2 tree

A relatively new emergent #SARSCoV2 lineage/variant from India, bearing the combination of Spike mutations L452R+E484Q, has been making rounds in the news recently. Here's a quick phylogenetic analysis of all

We see that you have questions about genome sequencing and how our capacity to sequence genomes of the novel coronavirus is important for Ghana's response to the global pandemic.Here are

Matthew Kavanagh

What did we learn today? @WHO @DrTedros were right.[THREAD]1) Evidence travel bans could not stop transmission to US (which mostly via Europe, in Feb, before cases there reached crisis). By

This thread is valuable for a *lot* of reasons in its own right. I am going to use it as an eg of the importance of sampling and genomic epidemiology

I am excited to share our new paper about the emergence of human-adapted Salmonella enterica linked to the Neolithization process. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-020-1106-9Find below a summary of the main findings in a

1/15 COMPARATIVE "GENOMIC EFFICIENCY" OF COUNTRIESHere are some quick and dirty graphs based on counts of genomes from GISAID, and population and GDP from Wikipedia. Here are the tables (sorry

Excited to share my PhD work https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.11.247098 Together with @Brookesloci, Scott Roy & @chris_21812, we have reconstructed the evolutionary history of intron presence/absence in Fungi and identified general modes

When variants of concern were first identified in late Dec, the US was not where it needed to be in terms of genomic surveillance. However, with considerable ramp up by

Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP)

The VGP announces a special @nature issue w/flagship & other genome assembly pubs focused on quality, standardization & scale @RockefellerUniv @HHMINEWS @genomewarriors @sangerinstitute @maxplanckpress @genome_gov @MT_Genetics @Geno