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Welcome back from the break! Next up @juliadiumenge.bsky.social from @alloxbio.bsky.social Mapping allosteric sites at scale to develop better drugs

22.05.2025 09:37 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Next up at #VariantEffect25: Translating computational genomics into clinical clarity we have
@shawnfayer.bsky.social from @uwgenome.bsky.social presenting "A cluster-based method for guiding the use of variant effect predictors in clinical variant classification clinical clarity"

22.05.2025 08:12 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Atlas of Variant Effects 2030 Roadmap: resolving human variants of uncertain significance At the Clinical Atlas of Variant Effects meeting (CLAVE meeting, July 2024, Pittsburgh USA), we developed recommendations for a draft atlas that can be realized by 2030, with a focus on empowering gen...

Our "Atlas of Variant Effects 2030 Roadmap" is live: zenodo.org/records/1542...

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15.05.2025 15:44 — 👍 36    🔁 27    💬 1    📌 0

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16.02.2025 21:42 — 👍 28    🔁 6    💬 3    📌 0

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📣 We are #Hiring: Program Operation Specialist
@brotmanbaty.bsky.social and UW Dept of Genome Science
Full-Time | Seattle, WA
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16.12.2024 18:38 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

McConnell Defends Polio Vaccine, an Apparent Warning to RFK Jr. “Efforts to undermine public confidence in proven cures are not just uninformed — they’re dangerous,” said the Republican leader, who is a polio survivor.

The one benefit of the US Senate's average age being approximately 103...they predate routine vaccinations! www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/u...

14.12.2024 03:33 — 👍 23    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

AVE EC Open Call — Atlas of Variant Effects Alliance

Opportunity Alert! Open Call for New Members of the AVE Executive Committee.
ℹ️ 📝 www.varianteffect.org/leadership-o...
Deadline to submit an application and indicate your interest in joining is December 20th, 2024.

13.11.2024 15:16 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

McSweeney’s is spot on, as always.

09.11.2024 21:34 — 👍 26    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

UW Genome Sciences Join the conversation

I made a starter pack of folks affiliated with UW Genome Sciences (past and present)

go.bsky.app/L8RAbiJ

It's fairly sparse for now, so please let me know if you'd like to be added!

08.11.2024 22:24 — 👍 20    🔁 13    💬 4    📌 0

The Atlas of Variant Effects (AVE) Alliance is an international community of researchers, analysts, clinicians, patients and funders working with and alongside major genomics and genetics initiatives and consortia... t.co/GlAMeAKVQI

06.08.2024 14:48 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Scorching heat in the US Southwest kills three migrants in the desert near the Arizona-Mexico border - ABC17NEWS Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Three Mexican migrants have died in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona near the U.S.-Mexico border. The deaths come as temperatures hit the triple digits across parts of the...

Biden's asylum ban leads to three more deaths in the desert, where two men, ages 44 and 18, and a 17-year-old girl were found. abc17news.com/news/ap-nati...

29.06.2024 13:24 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

I don't think biomedical researchers realize how much is at stake with the upcoming election. Take a look at some snippets from Project2025, the blueprint for the next Trump Administration and then be afraid. Then get organized. Ignoring it and putting our heads in the sand is not an option.

12.03.2024 22:11 — 👍 283    🔁 166    💬 10    📌 19