Torsten Seemann

Registration and abstract submission for MicroSeq2025 is open. Abstract submission closes August 8, 2025. Participants can register at microseqconference.com. MicroSeq2025 is an online meeting being held on September 3rd and 4th, focused on research being conducted on sequencing data generated from microbiological samples (bacteria, fungi, and viruses). MicroSeq2025 is supported by The Australian Society for Microbiology, the Australasian Virology Society, and Microbial Genomics.

🚨Abstract submission & registration for #MicroSeq2025 is OPEN! 🚨Get in quick! The first 50 registrations are FREE for PhD students and ECRs who are current ASM members, thanks to @aussocmic.bsky.social.

Head to our website to register now 👇
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Google Slides has a new "Stock images" option when you "Insert Image" - you get these two options for the search term #bioinfortmics ...

🚀 Pushed some updates to taxonomy.onecodex.com

- Example queries to help you get started
- Summary section for easier interpretation
- Perf. improvements

You might be wondering why we haven't updated outbreak.info for months.

Well, the reason is that GISAID cut our access in January - as they did others. Without telling us.

After a ♾️ back and forth, that is now permanent.

More on that soon - and why GISAID should not be trusted with critical data.

On more than one occasion I've thought of a cool idea for a bioinformatics program only to realize @torstenseemann.bsky.social already wrote it a decade ago.

The 1973 edition of Google Maps. #nostalgia #Melbourne

🚀🧬 MY former colleague @micamer.bsky.social who I worked with in the early years of my career has released a BLAST service (GUI + API options) which replicates the NCBI services but with faster response times.

I'd only need white tiles for that these days 🫤

The 10-millionth job run on Galaxy Australia turned out to be my Abricate tool, which itself has been run nearly 500K times. 🤯

If only I had a dollar for every run! 😜

While browsing for a new place to rent I came across this bathroom tile design. Makes me want a pixel-art shower one day. Or a valid QR code?

Snippy: Microbial Variant Calling Community Survey Help us drive the next wave of innovation in Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) discovery and genome analysis by sharing your valuable experiences and insights. This in-depth survey aims at understa...

🦘✂️ Thanks to @cziscience.bsky.social , @wytamma.bsky.social and I are writing the next version of the Snippy bacterial variant calling pipeline. We want your input on what features s it will have. Please fill out this (longish) survey to help make Snippy great again!
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Dr. Torsten Seemann and Dr. Kelsey Florek standing in front of a seated audience next to a presentation slide displaying the title "Building Resilient Public Health Genomic Systems with Data Lakes and Automation".

Big thanks to @torstenseemann.bsky.social for hosting me at the Centre for Pathogen Genomics. It was lovely to meet everyone and see the awesome binfo work happening in Asia-Pacific!

#Austrakka #Bioinformatics #PublicHealth

Details : Bioinformatician, International Training & Research : The University of Melbourne Careers at The University of Melbourne

Want to help build capacity public health pathogen bioinformatics in the Asia Pacific region?
🦘 Based in Melbourne Australia with me
✈️ Travel to and work internationally
🧠 Lead strategy, training & infrastructure
Applications close soon!
jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/9...

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Really hoping there isn't a Y2.25K bug we missed.

When blue screens were what made kids dream.

Love this poster on the Mandelbrot Set

🌟 Excited to share my latest preprint with @lachlanjmc.bsky.social on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social: "Genome size estimation from long read overlaps”! 🚀

Check it out here: doi.org/10.1101/2024...
And find the code here: github.com/mbhall88/lrge

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I just made a first release of TNA - new tool to compare 2 bacterial genomes. Is shamelessly inspired by ACT, but should be simpler to use. Drag-n-drop two genomes: it runs BLAST for you and then you can visualize. For Mac, Windows 11, Linux tna.readthedocs.io

I wasn't at AGTA and was unaware of the name clash. Bummer. Great minds I guess? @benjwoodcroft.bsky.social

GitHub - AroneyS/binchicken: Bin Chicken - recovery of low abundance and taxonomically targeted metagenome assembled genomes (MAGs) through strategic coassembly Bin Chicken - recovery of low abundance and taxonomically targeted metagenome assembled genomes (MAGs) through strategic coassembly - AroneyS/binchicken

I nominate this for #bioinformatiocs tool name of the year. I love it when Aussie home grown software have some "Australiana" in them! 🇦🇺
github.com/AroneyS/binc...

Today I discovered that there is a street near my house named "Nullarbor Pl". I could take my laptop down there and run "nullabor.pl" at Nullarbor Pl. #coincidence