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The case of the missing Editorial Blog Post (and journal team)

From Blasted Bioinformatics!? – 2025-10-01T13:43:00.002+01:00

<p>Here’s a wee puzzle: A mature Open Data focused journal (“Journal A”), owned and launched by an company or Institute (“Institute B”), developed into the flagship of an Academic Publisher (“Publishe...

Unlocking the Potential of Urine-Based Liquid Biopsies

From Enseqlopedia – Wed, 01 Oct 2025 07:58:40 +0000

<p>I&#8217;m really pleased to say I&#8217;m an author on a new article in Nature Cancer discussing the potential of using urine-based liquid biopsies for cancer detection, particularly through the an...

Our journey through low-complexity regions

From Heng Li's blog – 2025-09-29T00:00:00+00:00

<p>Those who inspect SVs often have probably noticed many SVs fall in low-complexity regions (LCRs) or tandem repeats and they are challenging to call. How many and how challenging? I could not find a...

Analyzing ICE Arrest Data - Part 2

From JEFworks Lab – 2025-09-27T00:00:00+00:00

In this blog post, I continue to demonstrate how to analyze publicly available datasets related to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). This time, I take advantage of publicly available dat...

Zbąszyń

From Bits of DNA – Mon, 22 Sep 2025 22:08:17 +0000

The mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss invented the heliotrope for long-distance surveying in 1821. Just a year later, he proved that least squares regression provided the BLUE estimator for data with...

Back to Writing: Some Thoughts on Machine Learning

From BIOINFORMATICAMENTE – Thu, 11 Sep 2025 20:04:50 +0000

<p>Hello. Finally, I’m back to writing on the blog. Intense work commitments and plenty of unexpected events have limited the time I could spend studying and sharing with you my progress in the world ...

A quick look at Roche's SBX

From Heng Li's blog – 2025-09-11T00:00:00+00:00

<p><a href="https://sequencing.roche.com/us/en/article-listing/sequencing-platform-technologies.html">Sequencing by Expansion (SBX)</a> is Roche’s new short-read sequencing technology. Roche released ...

On professionalism

From Dave Tang's blog – Sat, 30 Aug 2025 03:01:22 +0000

<p>I'm a huge fan of Conan O'Brien; there's just something about his demeanour, humour, and wittiness that I admire. I discovered him on YouTube around 2012 and was quite oblivious to who he was, what...

Job search 2025 post-mortem and advice

From Eric Kernfeld – 2025-08-13T00:00:00+00:00

The comp bio job market is scarier than usual: 2023 was a biotech bankruptcy bloodbath, 2024 was a little better, and as far as layoffs, 2025 has been worse. Academic and government sectors are also r...