| Website | https://www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/molecular-plant-sciences/samuel_nestor_meckoni |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4877-8762 |
Interested in the genetic secrets of your favorite plant?
A genome sequence might reveal them. We wrote down a workflow from DNA extraction & sequencing to genome sequence assembly & annotation. It includes a hands-on guide with example commands.
Excited about plant pigments? Anthocyanin biosynthesis is a hot topic in plant biology, judging by the growing number of publications #FlavonoidFriday
https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202603.2058.v1 & https://shorturl.at/Hrm4c
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Completing "Plant Bioinformatics" 🌱
Students worked with CLI, big data, and cloud computing (thanks to de.NBI). Critically assessed papers and reproduced analyses. Alarming how often methods are incomplete or data is not shared. Teaching #OpenScience is crucial.
🔗 https://github.com/bpucker/teaching
This week, I teach the students of WBIO-A-08 how to use the CLI. Currently they are having a lot of fun with piping 😈
They already learned how to create a @deNBI VM, transfer files, install tools via apt, and how to use a lot of small helpful utilities. In the next days some more bioinformatics orientated tools will follow.
🌿 Plant Bioinformatics! 💻🧬
How do we turn massive plant omics datasets into biological insight?
We cover genomics, transcriptomics, sequence analysis, phylogenetics, statistics, and reproducible research practices. Plant science is data science. 🌱
More details & course materials:
https://github.com/bpucker/PlantBioinformatics
This Utricularia gibba was gifted as a piece of art to a gardener from the Botanic Gardens Bonn for helping with growing plants that I use for research. Another specimen is hold by the Herbarium Bonn. For the Botanic Gardens Bonn, Utricularia gibba is usually a "weed" that needs to be removed regularly. Last year, some were allowed to bloom to obtain seeds. #Utricularia #Herbarium #BotanicalGarden #Bonn
First two Photos by @jahorz :)
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