Stephen Turner
Data scientist, bioinformatician, dad, runner, guitar noise-maker. Views my own.
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Why You Shouldn’t Worry About Studies Showing Waning Coronavirus Antibodies
Nytimes.com 83d 10 tweets
Experts say it’s normal for levels of antibodies to drop after clearing an infection, and that they represent just one arm of the immune response against a virus.
Every Single Kid in the Pod Was White
Slate Magazine 84d 2 tweets
What happened when remote learning came to Greenbrier Elementary.
Validate User
Academic.oup.com 83d 1 tweets
Stephen Turner Seqminer2: An Efficient Tool to Query and Retrieve Genotypes for Statistical Genetics Analyses from Biobank Scale Sequence Dataset 83d
zhanxw/seqminer
GitHub 83d 1 tweets
Query sequence data (VCF/BCF1/BCF2, Tabix, BGEN, PLINK) in R - zhanxw/seqminer
Stephen Turner Seqminer2: An Efficient Tool to Query and Retrieve Genotypes for Statistical Genetics Analyses from Biobank Scale Sequence Dataset 83d
I am an Uighur who faced China’s concentration camps. This is my story.
Varsity Online 86d 6 tweets
In the first installment of our new series shedding light on current humanitarian crises, Victor Jack sits with Ӧmir Bekali, a Uighur Muslim who recounts his imprisonment, torture and indoctrination at the han
Modeling COVID-19 scenarios for the United States
Nature Medicine 87d 32 tweets
A modeling study using case and mortality data from the first 8 months of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States explores five potential future scenarios of social distancing mandates and mask use at the state level, with projections of the...
Stephen Turner Modeling COVID-19 scenarios for the United States 87d
Ten simple rules for biologists initiating a collaboration with computer scientists
Journals.plos.org 88d 3 tweets
Schoolchildren Seem Unlikely to Fuel Coronavirus Surges, Scientists Say
Nytimes.com 88d 49 tweets
Researchers once feared that school reopenings might spread the virus through communities. But so far there is little evidence that it’s happening.
Translation | Radiolab | WNYC Studios
WNYC Studios 133d 2 tweets
How the right words can have the wrong meanings, and the best translations lead us to an understanding that's way deeper than language. 
Undecided
The New Yorker 284d 7 tweets
SHOUTS AND MURMURS about undecided voters. As we move into the final weeks of the Presidential campaign, the focus shifts to the undecided voters. I look …
Stephen Turner Remembering how David Sedaris described undecided voters 87d
The COVID-19 Documentary All Americans Need to See
The Atlantic 91d 4 tweets
"Totally Under Control" delivers a damning—and essential—report card on the White House’s mismanagement of the pandemic.
The physiological effects of slow breathing in the healthy human | Hacker News
News.ycombinator.com 88d 1 tweets
The physiological effects of slow breathing in the healthy human
European Respiratory Society 993d 3 tweets
Slow breathing practices have been adopted in the modern world across the globe due to their claimed health benefits. This has piqued the interest of researchers and clinicians who have initiated investigations into the physiological (and...
Microbes and complex diseases: from experimental results to computational models
OUP Academic 88d 1 tweets
Abstract. Studies have shown that the number of microbes in humans is almost 10 times that of cells. These microbes have been proven to play an important role
Stephen Turner Microbes and complex diseases: from experimental results to computational models 88d
iMOKA: k -mer based software to analyze large collections of sequencing data
Genome Biology 97d 2 tweets
iMOKA (interactive multi-objective k-mer analysis) is a software that enables comprehensive analysis of sequencing data from large cohorts to generate robust classification models or explore specific genetic elements associated with disease...
Stephen Turner iMOKA: k -mer based software to analyze large collections of sequencing data 90d
RitchieLabIGH/iMOKA
GitHub 90d 1 tweets
interactive Multi Objective K-mer Analysis. Contribute to RitchieLabIGH/iMOKA development by creating an account on GitHub.
Stephen Turner iMOKA: k -mer based software to analyze large collections of sequencing data 90d
2,000-Year-Old Cat Etching Found at Nazca Lines Site in Peru
Nytimes.com 91d 11 tweets
Archaeologists came across the faded feline outline while conducting maintenance work at the UNESCO heritage site.
IDseq-An open source cloud-based pipeline and analysis service for metagenomic pathogen detection and monitoring - PubMed
PubMed 90d 1 tweets
The IDseq Portal reduces the barrier to entry for mNGS data analysis and enables bench scientists, clinicians, and bioinformaticians to gain insight from mNGS datasets for both known and novel pathogens.
Risk of COVID-19 exposure on airplanes low, study shows
al 94d 1 tweets
A new study looks at the risk of coronavirus exposure on board airplanes.
Home - dbGaP - NCBI
Ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 497d 2 tweets