Mick Watson
Professor of bioinformatics @ Edinburgh. (Meta)genomics, bioinformatics, some politics. Tweets are my own.
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Effect of selection and selective genotyping for creation of reference on bias and accuracy of genomic prediction. - PubMed - NCBI
J Anim Breed Genet. 2019 Jun 19. doi: 10.1111/jbg.12420. [Epub ahead of print]
Optimizing Selection of the Reference Population for Genotype Imputation From Array to Sequence Variants. - PubMed - NCBI
Front Genet. 2019 May 31;10:510. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2019.00510. eCollection 2019.
nanopore-wgs-consortium/NA12878
Data and analysis for NA12878 genome on nanopore. Contribute to nanopore-wgs-consortium/NA12878 development by creating an account on GitHub.
Eye disease patients to benefit from chicken study
Childhood eye disease patients could benefit from insights revealed in new chicken study.
epolevikov/Asgan
A tool for analysis of assembly graphs. Contribute to epolevikov/Asgan development by creating an account on GitHub.
Mick Watson
Evgeny Polevikov describing a method to find synteny between two assembly graphs, and massively improve N50 and recovery of chromosomes
#BiATA2019
5h
Blackstone chief donates $150 million to Oxford University
The head of private equity firm Blackstone has pledged $150 million to Oxford Un...
Aligning RNA-Seq reads to a sex chromosome complement informed reference genome increases ability to detect sex differences in gene expression
Background: Human X and Y chromosomes share an evolutionary origin and, as a consequence, sequence similarity. We investigated whether sequence homology between the X and Y chromosomes affects alignment of RNA-Seq reads, and estimates of...
Home - Dr Gonzalo Guillen Gosalbez
Gonzalo Guillén GosálbezReader in Process Systems EngineeringCentre for Process Systems Engineering Imperial College of Scien
The top ways to reduce your carbon footprint
A new examination of 39 papers and reports has a surprising conclusion
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Mick Watson
Reminder - going vegan won't save the planet. Not even close.
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29h
2019 Small Research Grants Scheme Launched
CALLING ALL ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE RESEARCHERS Antibiotic Research UK (ANTRUK) the world’s first charity tackling bacterial antibiotic resistance invites researchers to apply for a grant under our 2019 Small Research Grants scheme (maximum sum per...
Lib Dem offer of election pacts to prevent Brexit
Jo Swinson has said her party could work with others to put up joint second-referendum candidates in elections if she becomes Liberal Democrat leader. The former minister, who is vying to replace...
Microbiota data from low biomass milk samples is markedly affected by laboratory and reagent contamination
Discoveries of bacterial communities in environments that previously have been described as sterile have in recent years radically challenged the view of these environments. In this study we aimed to use 16S rRNA sequencing to describe the...
Illumina’s takeover of PacBio raises competition concerns
Illumina’s proposed takeover of PacBio raises competition concerns in the supply of specialist DNA sequencing systems in the UK, a CMA investigation has found.
Assessing the size of the affordability problem in scholarly publishing
For many decades, the hyperinflation of subscription prices for scholarly journals have concerned scholarly institutions. After years of fruitless efforts to solve this “serials crisis”, open access has been proposed as the latest potential...
Nigel Farage's Brexit Party ordered to check EVERY £25 donation for foreign cash
The Electoral Commission recommended the party make changes to their website to prevent overseas donors funding the party
What it costs to publish
We share full details of eLife's costs with the hope that, by being transparent, it will help to set a future course for research communication that is efficient and sustainable.
Mick Watson
@brembs @cshperspectives @gepasi @eLife @SciPubLab @PeerJPreprints I think this analysis has been put out there in good faith: elifesciences.org/inside-elife/a…
Is there anything in there you disagree with?
50h
Bob Wilson – Anchorman
Lyrics and videos for the Half Man Half Biscuit song Bob Wilson – Anchorman, from Editor’s Recommendation EP.
Program « BiATA 2019
Mick Watson
Really looking forward to #BiATA2019 on Thursday and Friday of this week
biata2019.spbu.ru/program/
Come and see my talk
"Reproducible metagenomics at scale"
53h