Bruce Pearson

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Research career full of different yeasts and bacteria. Retired ex-Brit now in France. Got out before the sh1t hit the fan.
Something has gone badly wrong with the U.K. Postal voting system. With 2 days to go I’m sitting in France waiting for my postal vote to arrive. I’ve been denied a vote.#election2024 #PostalVotes #Norwichsouth

We're looking for a bioinformatician leaning towards a software engineer or programmer, to join our Core Bioinformatics team and help us maintaning our infrastructure, while collaborating in cool projects. I am happy to answer any questions.

💷 £43,550 to £54,900
🗓️ Apply by 2 July 2024
➡️ https://quadram.ac.uk/vacancies/bioinformatics-programmer/

Bioinformatics Programmer - Quadram Institute

We’re looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Bioinformatics Programmer to join the Core Bioinformatics team. Background The post holder will contribute to the activities of Core Bioinformatics, with a particular focus on infrastructure maintenance and development. Familiarity with Linux, containers (e.g. Apptainer), and HPC is important, as well as understanding and building of bioinformatics workflows […]

Quadram Institute

I wrote a new blog post with @GB13Faithless: https://rrwick.github.io/2024/02/15/misassemblies.html

In it, we describe a couple interesting mistakes we found in long-read bacterial genome assemblies. I think they demonstrate a few valuable lessons:
1) Assemblers do not like structural heterogeneity! Often results in a misassembly.
2) Some misassemblies are completely mysterious and have no clear cause.
3) Assembly can be non-deterministic: re-running an assembly with identical parameters can give a different result.

A tale of two misassemblies

a blog for miscellaneous bioinformatics stuff

Ryan Wick’s bioinformatics blog
@fraser we can send all our rubbish into space and call it ecological seeding other planets…
Hey @happykhan, thanks for all the fish! 🐬
@overholt what’s a few bases between friends?
Could Johnson "Follow the Science"?
"It’s unfortunate that, at a time when we most needed a leader who would make the effort to understand the scientific evidence in this overwhelmingly science-dominated crisis, we were lumbered with Johnson."
My substack:
https://open.substack.com/pub/kityates/p/could-johnson-follow-the-science?r=1cw8pl&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Could Johnson "Follow the Science"?

What Boris Johnson’s testimony at the covid inquiry reveals about his ability to engage with scientific evidence

Kit Yates - Math(s) and the real world

Registration for the 2023 Global Microbial Identifier meeting (GMI13) on microbial genomics data sharing is now open!

Program and conference details can be found at gmi13.org.

Cost: $150
Where: Vancouver, Canada,
Who is invited: Everyone!
Contact: [email protected]

@cyberlibrarian nobody is going to read all that