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Workshop alert! Mastering Reproducible Enrichment Analysis

From Genome Spot – 2026-04-23T11:00:00.002+10:00

<p>&nbsp;Join us for a 2-part workshop on Mastering Reproducible Enrichment Analysis! 📊</p> <p>Presented by Anusuiya Bora and myself, with a focus on reproducibility and best practices.</p> <p>📅 When:...

The AI Rewrite Dilemma

From Heng Li's blog – 2026-04-17T00:00:00+00:00

<p>There have been multiple ongoing efforts (see Appendix below), and <strong>debates</strong>, regarding porting bioinformatics tools to Rust. These include two rewrites of minimap2. Here are some of...

How is the nectar of RNA-seq produced?

From BIOINFORMATICAMENTE – Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:31:41 +0000

<p>Hi everyone. It’s been a while since I last wrote on the blog. Unfortunately, sometimes life gets tough—you lose energy, motivation, and above all, your sense of priorities. I’m not out of this dar...

Hausdorff

From Bits of DNA – Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:44:37 +0000

The philosopher Felix Hausdorff, famous for his foundational philosophical work Das Chaos in kosmischer Auslese  (Chaos in Cosmic Selection) in which he rejects metaphysics, also did mathematics as a ...

Nowakia

From Bits of DNA – Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:50:56 +0000

Among the millions of pages in the Epstein files, there is an inconspicuous, seemingly mundane short email, EFTA00896810, dated 14th September, 2010. It is a message from Jeffrey Epstein to Martin Now...

I Built a Personal AI Assistant on a Mac Mini

From Chatomics on Chatomics – Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

<p>My first blog post in a long time!</p> <p>I wanted an AI assistant that knew me. Knew my research. Knew my content calendar. Knew that when I say &ldquo;write a thread about batch effects,&rdquo; ...

What’s changed?

From What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate – Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:45:52 +0000

Andy Saunders writes: A couple of things come to mind. The planet on the right contains, on average, around 70% fewer animals than the planet on the left. The atmosphere of the planet on the right als...

Updated genomic analysis of the 2026 menB outbreak in Kent, UK

From Bacterial population genomics blog – Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

<p>This is a brief update to the <a href="https://www.bacpop.org/blog/menb/">previous menB analysis</a> we&rsquo;d posted here.</p> <p>UKHSA have released a <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publ...

Life at the freezing edge

From DNAZoo – Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:42:01 GMT

The fact that any small, cold blooded animal such as the insects can sustain temperatures below the freezing point of water has to be one of the most remarkable features of animal evolution. Even more...

Initial genomic analysis of the 2026 menB outbreak in Kent, UK

From Bacterial population genomics blog – Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

<p>We&rsquo;ve done a quick analysis on the meningitis outbreak genome to try and answer whether there is anything obviously genetically unusual about the publicly available outbreak strain.</p> <p>We...