Mick Watson
Professor of bioinformatics @ Edinburgh. (Meta)genomics, bioinformatics, some politics. Tweets are my own.
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John Swinney 'cannot tell if Scottish pupils' numeracy and literacy are improving' after survey scrapped
John Swinney cannot reach any "meaningful conclusion" about whether literacy or numeracy are improving in Scotland's schools after the SNP government scrapped a nationwide survey, a damning Holyrood inquiry has concluded.
Spending on Scottish school pupils ‘has plunged under SNP’
Funding for school pupils in Scotland has fallen by hundreds of pounds per child since 2010 under the SNP, according to Scottish Labour. The party says its analysis of local government figures suggests a real- terms fall in spending per primary...
Genome assembly using Nanopore-guided long and error-free DNA reads
Long-read sequencing technologies were launched a few years ago, and in contrast with short-read sequencing technologies, they offered a promise of solving assembly problems for large and complex genomes. Moreover by providing long-range...
A Vicious, Untreatable Killer Leaves China Guessing
African swine fever, which harms pigs but not humans, has swept across the country, the world’s largest pork producer. And the government knows about only some of the cases.
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And now part 792 of my podcast series "stuff we told you was important but you didn't fund so now it's all your fault":
African Swine Fever
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Genome sequencing lab awarded international quality stamp
Edinburgh Genomics has received an accreditation to mark the quality of its genome sequencing services.
The terms “BritNat” and “Unionist” are lazy and wrong
Mick Watson takes on the descriptions “BritNat” and “unionist” which are widely used on social media against opponents of Scottish independence, and sets out why this is bot…
Theresa May to face grassroots no-confidence challenge
Conservative local associations are calling for Theresa May to resign over her handling of Brexit.
Increasing the accuracy of nanopore DNA sequencing using a time-varying cross membrane voltage
The accuracy of nanopore DNA sequencing is substantially improved by application of a variable-voltage sequencing mode.
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Gundlach gets his nanopore sequencing to 79% accuracy using mspA
Is this what Illumina licensed?
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Capturing the dynamics of genome replication on individual ultra-long nanopore sequence reads
Replication initiation is stochastic and obscured in population sequencing; D-NAscent reports the use of long nanopore reads to detect base analogs and thus to assess replication initiation at the individual molecule level.
Pump the Brakes on the Illumina and Pacific Biosciences Deal -- The Motley Fool
The United Kingdom's Competition and Markets Authority has opened an investigation into the acquisition. What happens now?
Opinion: The only person who can stop Nigel Farage is Jeremy Corbyn
But the Labour leader will need to come off the fence and support a Final Say
Management of Mendelian Traits in Breeding Programs by Gene Editing: A Simulation Study
Background Genotypes based on high-density single nucleotide polymorphisms have recently been used to identify a number of novel recessive mutations that adversely affect fertility in dairy cattle as well as to track conditions such as polledness....
The impact of genome editing on the introduction of monogenic traits in livestock
Genome editing technologies provide new tools for genetic improvement and have the potential to become the next game changer in animal and plant breeding. The aim of this study was to investigate how genome editing in combination with genomic...
Droplet-based combinatorial indexing for massive scale single-cell epigenomics
While recent technical advancements have facilitated the mapping of epigenomes at single-cell resolution, the throughput and quality of these methods have limited the widespread adoption of these technologies. Here, we describe a droplet...
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