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Javier Santoyo

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Genomics & Bioinformatics Scientist at the University of Edinburgh | Head of Edinburgh Genomics | #Omics #NGS #LongReads πŸ§ͺ🧬 πŸ–₯️ Opinions my own. He/Him LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/javiersantoyolopez/

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Element Joins the High-Throughput Market with the VITARI Platform Back at JPM Element teased that they would be coming out with the VITARI, a benchtop sequencer capable of generating whole genomes for $100. This would best Illumina’s list price of $200 with the N…

Element reveals more information about their VITARI platform, a foray into the high-throughput sequencing market. sandiegomics.com/element-join...

19.02.2026 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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GPTBioInsightorβ€”Leveraging LLMs for transparent scRAN-Seq cell type annotations Abstract. Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly becoming indispensable across the life‑sciences spectrum, from literature mining through clinical decisi

GPTBioInsightorβ€”Leveraging LLMs for transparent scRAN-Seq cell type annotations. #SingleCell #scRNAseq #LLMs #AI #Bioinformatics @bioinfoadv.bsky.social πŸ§ͺ🧬 πŸ–₯️
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23.01.2026 09:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mapping isoforms and regulatory mechanisms from spatial transcriptomics data with SPLISOSM. #SpatialTranscriptomics #Isoforms @natbiotech.nature.com πŸ§ͺ🧬 πŸ–₯️
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21.01.2026 11:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Evaluating the practical aspects and performance of commercial single-cell RNA sequencing technologies. #SingleCell #scRNAseq #Benchmarking #NARgenomicsAndBioinformatics πŸ§ͺ🧬 πŸ–₯️
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21.01.2026 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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MobiCT: a UMI-based circulating tumor DNA analysis pipeline. #UMIs #cfDNA #Nextflow #Bioinformatics #Genomics #NARgenomicsAndBioinformatics πŸ§ͺ🧬 πŸ–₯️
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21.01.2026 09:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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LinkML: An Open Data Modeling Framework. #DataModel #DataSharing #FAIRdata @gigascience.bsky.social

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20.01.2026 14:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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An evaluation of computational methods for reconstruction of human viral DNA genomes. #ViralDNAgenomes #MethodBenchmarking @gigascience.bsky.social
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18.01.2026 11:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Genomic Variant Prediction: Advances, Challenges, and Future Directions. #GenomicVariants #VariantInterpretation #AI @gigascience.bsky.social
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18.01.2026 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Translating short-form Python exercises to other programming languages using diverse prompting strategies. #LLMs #Programming #Bioinformatics #CodeTranslation @gigascience.bsky.social πŸ§ͺ🧬 πŸ–₯️
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18.01.2026 09:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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A comprehensive survey of genome language models in bioinformatics. #GenomeLanguageModels #gMLs #ModelsReview #Bioinformatics #Genomics #BriefingsInBioinformatics
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18.01.2026 08:32 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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REDAC: RNA-seq Expression Data Analysis Chatbot. #RNAseq #LLMss #DataAnalysis #DifferentialExpression #Sequencing #Genomics @bioinfoadv.bsky.social πŸ§ͺ🧬 πŸ–₯️
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17.01.2026 17:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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VST-DAVis: An R shiny Application and web-browser for Spatial Transcriptomics Data Analysis and Visualization. #SpatialTranscriptomics #DataVisualization #RNAseq #Rshiny #Bioinformatics @bioinfoadv.bsky.social πŸ§ͺ🧬 πŸ–₯️
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17.01.2026 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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ChromoMapper: a new tool to quickly compare large genome assemblies. #GenomeAssembly #GenomeComparison #Bioinformatics #Genomics @bioinfoadv.bsky.social πŸ§ͺ🧬 πŸ–₯️
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17.01.2026 11:49 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Analyzing cell-type-specific isoform expression using IsoDiffR and long-read single-cell RNA sequencing. #SingleCell #LongRead #Sequencing #scRNAseq #Isoforms #DifferentialExpression #Bioinformaticcs #Genomics πŸ§ͺ🧬 πŸ–₯️
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17.01.2026 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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ASTRO: Automated Spatial-Transcriptome whole RNA Output. #SpatialTranscriptomics #RNAseq #FFPE #Genome #Bioinformatics πŸ§ͺ🧬 πŸ–₯️
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17.01.2026 09:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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scSNViz: Visualization and analysis of Cell-Specific expressed SNVs. #SingleCell #scRNAseq #SNVs #DataVisualization #Genomics #Bioinformatics πŸ§ͺ🧬 πŸ–₯️
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17.01.2026 08:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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CiFi: accurate long-read chromosome conformation capture with low-input requirements. #HiFi #LongRead #Sequencing @natcomms.nature.com πŸ§ͺ🧬 πŸ–₯️
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16.12.2025 11:30 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Search-and-remove genome editing allows selection of cells by DNA sequence. #GenomeEditing #CellSelection @natcomms.nature.com πŸ§ͺ🧬 πŸ–₯️
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16.12.2025 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mapping single-cell diploid chromatin fiber architectures using DAF-seq. #SingleCell #ChromatinFiberArchitecture #Sequencing #Genomics @natbiotech.nature.com πŸ§ͺ🧬 πŸ–₯️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

16.12.2025 09:31 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Standardized metrics for assessment and reproducibility of imaging-based spatial transcriptomics datasets.#SpatialTranscriptomics #StandardizedMetrics #DataRepository #BestPractices #OpenSourceSoftware #Genomics #Bioinformatics @natbiotech.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

15.12.2025 11:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Whole-genome landscapes of 1,364 breast cancers. #WGS #BreastCancer #Genomics @nature.com
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15.12.2025 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Insights into natural neocentromere evolution from a cattle T2T X chromosome. #CattleGenome #T2T #HaplotypeResolvedGenome #Centromeres #Genomics @natcomms.nature.com πŸ§ͺ🧬 πŸ–₯️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

15.12.2025 09:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Long-read metagenomics reveals phage dynamics in the human gut microbiome. #GutMicrobiome #Phages #LongReads #Sequencing #Genomics @nature.com πŸ§ͺ🧬 πŸ–₯️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

10.12.2025 09:31 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A bioinformatic survey of RNA isoform diversity and expression across 9 GTEx tissues using long-read sequencing data. #RNAisoforms #GTEx #LongReads #Sequencing #Genomics #Bioinformatics #BMCgenomics
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09.12.2025 12:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Genome annotations matter: characterizing Ensembl hg38 annotations from 2014 to 2023. #mRNA #GenomeAnnotation #EnsemblGenes #Isoforms #BMCgenomics
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09.12.2025 11:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Plate-based 10X Genomics-compatible single-cell RNA-sequencing based on Smart-seq3xpress. #SingleCell #scRNAseq #PlateBasedAssay #10X #Genomics #BMCgenomics
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09.12.2025 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

SeqForge: a scalable platform for alignment-based searches, motif detection, and sequence curation across meta/genomic datasets. #Metagenomics #AlignmentBasedSearches #Genomics #Bioinformatics #BMCbioinformatics
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09.12.2025 09:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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MOV&RSim: computational modelling of cancer-specific variants and sequencing reads characteristics for realistic tumoral sample simulation. #DataSimulation #CancerVariants #SequencingReads #ComputationalModelling #BMCBioinformatics πŸ§ͺ🧬 πŸ–₯️
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

08.12.2025 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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TaxaPLN: a taxonomy-aware augmentation strategy for microbiome-trait classification including metadata. #Microbiome #DataAugmentation #GenerativeModel #BMCbioinformatics πŸ§ͺ🧬 πŸ–₯️
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08.12.2025 09:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Universal noninvasive prenatal diagnosis for monogenic disorders using cell-free plasma DNA. #cfDNA #MonogenicDisorders #PrenatalDiagnosis #GenomeMedicine
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06.12.2025 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0