#Genomes

Theo Sanderson

theosanderson

Just out: a piece of collaborative science I'm rather proud of. Open data from @noahdsimons&co., a blog post from me, and epic analysis from Eerik, Uli and @adamjamesreid came together

Tuffs BLM___INTERFERON_ALPHA_2B

TuffsNotEnuff

Stop the carnage.Adopt China's Changheber Project system.Stop waiting on a vaccine. That didn't work for AIDS in the 80s/90s. And for SARS-1 2003 there's no vaccine.Interferon-based HIV treatment worked fine.Same

Plant Sciences

plantsci

A selection of talks that happened as part of the Festival of Plants follows... #FoP20 talk - TIGR2ESS and MillNETi are international research programmes addressing one of the biggest global

Prof. Christina Pagel

chrischirp

Short THREAD on Covid-19 Variants in ENGLAND: The Sanger Institute has just released webpages that let you explore genomes that they sequences every week... I had a look - two

Fernando Banana-Man García-Bastidas Ph.D

Ferchucky

#CarlLinnaeus assigned the scientific name Musa sapientum for dessert #bananas & Musa paradisiaca for plantains. However, he did not know that the two species he described were in fact hybrids

Billy Bostickson 🏴👁&👁 🆓

BillyBostickson

1. The mysterious case of Eddie Holmes and the SARS-COV-2 genome sequence publication delayhttps://twitter.com/TheSeeker268/status/1380600964218974209Seems that Eddie was playing the "innocent card" @TheSeeker268 @franciscodeasis

Sarah Allen

ultrasaurus

reading "On the origin and continuing evolution of SARS-CoV-2".https://academic.oup.com/nsr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nsr/nwaa036/5775463 p.20 shows a nice visualization of how SARS-CoV-2 has two common strains, how the virus is already e

Keolu Fox

KeoluFox

It usually takes me an hour to compose “a” tweet—let alone a whole thread! BUT… Here we go #DecolonizeDNA First and foremost thank you to all of our wonderful organizers

rally school dropout 🇩🇿

niggalini4

We got hoteps claiming that North Africa is black and then we have these people claiming we used to be white? Can we just catch a break lolhttps://twitter.com/Malthusian_Trad/status/1264951056146055170 btw we

Pleuni Pennings

pleunipennings

A few days ago @NicolettaML journalist for @LiveScience asked my opinion about a soon to be published paper about SARS-CoV2 CpG content. I promised to read it, but was surprised

Dan Holy

dantheholy

$BNGO Megathread. COVID plays are hot right now and I wanted to find a company offering some kind of help in the pandemic whilst also maintaining a broad scope in

Jonathan Eisen

phylogenomics

So I just got through reading this article on origins of #COVID19 and have one aspect I want to discuss.The origin of COVID: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box

Damien Tully

DamienTully

As the pandemic continues and more genomic data becomes available we are starting to see the unravelling of prior findings on the introduction and transmission of SARS-CoV-2. This statement from

Keerthik Sasidharan

KS1729

Deadly coronavirus comes in three variants, researchers find. 'Types A, B and C are all derived from the pathogen first found in bats but have evolved in different ways, according

Willem van Schaik 💙

WvSchaik

As promised, a thread on our [@StanleyHoBio @milja001] preprint: 'Comprehensive benchmarking of tools to identify phages in metagenomic shotgun sequencing data' https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.12.438782v1 https://twi

John Greally

EpgntxEinstein

I’m going out of my comfort zone on this one, not being a population geneticist, I would welcome being educated on this.I’m having interesting/challenging conversations about definitions of race/ethnicity/ancestry (REA)