Puffin watching experiences, ranked
<p>This year I went on two puffin watching experiences, and it is about time I reflect on this with a listicle / ranking.</p> <p>All on islands with decreasing populations of people and increasing pop...
Chromatin Landscape of Cancer Cell Lines Identifies Enhancer Subtypes
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When PCR Gives You Lemons...
<div>I wish to highlight an<a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.17.737729v1"> interesting new preprint from a group at Danish Technical University</a> which explores the schmutz i...
Dad Had Manuals, I Have An Agent
My father was a very methodical person, and that particularly applied when he decided to purchase the second IBM PC clone to appear on the market. A whole host of manuals appeared on his desk and whe...
Benchmark update: Ilesta, Autocycler-fast and new versions
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Credit use of AI models for bioinformatics: a tiny benchmark
<p>Agentic coding models such as codex and claude code are really useful for software engineering tasks. We sadly (and unsurprisingly) seem to be exiting the era of highly subsidised costs to get us h...
Bioinformatics and AI
<p>I started learning about bioinformatics back in the days when a lot of bioinformatics was done in Perl. Nowadays I don't see much Perl used in new tools, which are mostly written in Python or R or ...
NanoPlot, now in Rust
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Dorado v2.0.0 part 3: methylation
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Minibwa is the new bwa-mem
<p>Preprinted <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.3997">in 2013</a>, <a href="https://github.com/lh3/bwa">bwa-mem</a> is a popular mapper for 100+ bp short reads. It is often the first choice in varia...