Staff scientist having fun with DNA seq and bioinformatics at #AlbertsenLAB. 🦋@kirk3gaard.bsky.social. COI : I am a @nanopore shareholder.
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Want @nanopore data for benchmarking microbe related stuff? Check our collection of data for pure cultures, @ZymoResearch mocks and complex metagenomes ( github.com/Kirk3gaard/MicroB…). Basecalled reads with methylation is in @ENASequence. Eventually the pod5s might go there as well.
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Bioinformatics is fast again! 🚀
I might have just set a record: 1 min 46 sec to analyze a 30x @PacBio HiFi human genome (90 GB), from reads to SNVs, indels and structural variants. On a single server with one GPU.
That's an estimated 26 cents in the cloud.🧵
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¡Hola, Region of Madrid! 🇪🇸 We’re thrilled to announce that we’re coming to Spain, beginning with Madrid. This will be our first region in Spain and second in the European Union. We plan to launch fully autonomous ride-hailing in Madrid in 2027.
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¡Hola, Comunidad de Madrid! 🇪🇸 Nos emociona anunciar que llegamos a España, empezando por Madrid. Esta será nuestra primera región en España y la segunda en la Unión Europea. Planeamos lanzar nuestro servicio de ride-hailing totalmente autónomo en la Comunidad en 2027.
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Tesla FSD (Supervised) just reunited Czechoslovakia 🇨🇿🇸🇰
For the first time ever I crossed a border on FSD without it shutting down. Czechia and Slovakia are one connected FSD state again, and I absolutely love it.
@teslaeurope @TeslaSI
The @nanopore P24 is fully loaded thanks to the @voltalabsinc Callisto robot. Have a great weekend 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🚀🎉
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Ya my account has all my usual stuff :)
printables.com/@Scocioba_581…
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Great to see this moving along. Matt Loose has been a long term user-developer of Nanopore innovation. Back in 2012-2013 the idea of Adaptive Sampling (then called ‘Read Until’) occurred to me probably on the long commute between Cambridge and Oxford. I pulled the MinKNOW software tech leaders into my office, all 2 of them, and told them to drop everything and work on this, I was excited. We also provided an API for developers, the only way we could productize a feature like that, and it was exploited from day1 by Matt. Ewan Birney subsequently coined the name ‘Adaptive Sampling’. Now, many years later Matt and colleagues from the NHS have an in situ ultra rapid cancer test/monitor that may improve outcomes. These things can take a long time and a lot of people. Never give up.
NHS pilots rapid genomic test to transform brain tumour diagnosis and treatment, experts say
news.sky.com/story/nhs-pilot…
Hope @Tesla starts using the fleet to report debris, pot holes etc to the relevant government agency in @teslaeurope. But right now I just appreciate @teslasi navigating smoothly around it 🚗⚡🤖
Another day with @voltalabsinc preps for the @nanopore P24 🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉🚀
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Thrilled that #paper2agent is published in @nature today!
Scientific knowledge is traditionally stored in passive papers. Paper2Agent transforms papers into virtual authors that answer questions, apply its methods and collaborate w/ other paper agents to make new discoveries 🧵
Hey @fdmdk kan vi snart se et lignende udspil i Danmark? @ilyasdogru @IDAdk @TrygDK @OfficialAlka @GjensidigeDK @codanf
Australian Insurance provider @Zurich is now offering cheaper insurance for Teslas with FSD (Supervised) activated — an Australian first 🇦🇺
Zurich says Tesla data shows FSD-equipped cars have 7x fewer major or minor collisions than regular EVs.
118 pipette tips for prepping 24 @nanopore ligation preps with full walkaway automation🤯🤯🤯. Thanks to the amazing @voltalabsinc team and their Callisto robot 🤖⚡
youtu.be/LSrcBHd3l18?is=D4q6…
Great combo of @voltalabsinc callisto and @nanopore P24 🎉🧬🚀 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩
Was blown away 🤯 @Tesla FSD politeness level 💯. Improving traffic flow on top of safety +convenience 🎉
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This is legitimately terrible for OpenAI --- but also Anthropic --- and it relates to their work in drug discovery.
I read this as: prompts will be monitored and potentially acted on if we think there’s something scientifically and/or commercially valuable being disclosed.
Now, the big problem for Anthropic is that they are increasingly seen to be competing with their customers. Outside of SF, many people also think of OpenAI/ChatGPT and Anthropic/Claude as somewhat interchangeable companies and products --- aka, if OpenAI do something, surely Anthropic will do it too?
As so much IP relates to drug targets and people disclose these to Claude, I think we will see a lot of pharma companies stop using these tools or put up a lot of internal guardrails.
wtf is this way to handle mathematicians work and scientific communication
TLDR: Leven and Tristan worked over several months on one of the Millenium Prize Problems with various AIs to reach final interesting results. OpenAI apparently heard about it in the last days and prompted their latest models to work on the direction Leven and Tristan found fruitful. They then tried to push for controlling communication of the result and dropping Leven from authorship with some very bad taste social pressure.
Hope this is not a glimpse of the future we’ll get in science research with these dominating players playing marketing games hurtful for the real scientific community.
Someone giving this a pipette and @nanopore minion?
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Today, we're kicking off the first phase of the research preview for Model Hardware Standard (MHS): a new standard for AI agents to safely operate physical equipment in scientific research and advanced manufacturing.
Read more: anthropic.com/news/model-har…