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Thanks for a great 2025, COMBINE members!

Wishing you bug-free code, abundant compute resources, and statistically-significant findings all through the holiday season and into the new year!

Workshops underway this morning! #ABACBS2025

If you’re attending workshops today and tomorrow, enjoy, and we hope everyone had a really positive experience at this year’s events!

A massive thank you to all those involved in organising and running the events, especially George and Muneeza, the COMBINE Symposium co-convenors. Many, many people have volunteered to help in some capacity both during and in the lead up to the event - we owe its success to you all.

That’s a wrap on the COMBINE Symposium and ABACBS Conference for 2025! What a spectacular few days of enlightening talks, eye-catching posters, tasty food, exciting collaborations, hard-earned social events, and, importantly, brilliant bioinformatics!

Well done to the outgoing and incoming #COMBINE2025 presidents! Very proud of both Liyang Fei and Caitlin Page, PhD students in my group! #ABACBS2025

I'm honored to be selected to present my latest research at #COMBINE2025 (part of #ABACBS2025 ) today’s morning.

I'll be introducing CellDiffusion, a new generative model to tackle the challenge of annotating complex single-cell and spatial RNA-seq data by using bulk RNA-seq reference.

Really enjoyed the career panelists’ insights, such a valuable mix of experiences and perspectives!

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Congratulations to all of our award winners and thank you to all of you for making this a memorable COMBINE Symposium! We hope you enjoyed the variety of talks, posters, and other events!

The SBEI x COMBINE Career meet-up was a success, facilitating discussion between professional bioinformaticians and students about non-academic career options for bioinformaticians. Thanks to the SBEI volunteers that willingly gave their time for this event!

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Thanks to Eugenie Lee, Liyang Fei, and Jia Wei Tan for their talks on cell annotation, tracking drug resistant clones in ovarian cancer organoids, and identifying aberrant transcripts in long read RNA seq.

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The 3rd and Final session on Omics Methodology has kicked off with a talk on cell type annotation!

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Session 2 was all about base calling from Nanopore, contrastive learning in enzyme residue prediction, and sequence evolution in AMR genes. Thanks to Bonson Wong, William James Ferraro Rieger, and Bethany Cross for sharing their amazing research with us!

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Session 2 ongoing: Computational Biology of Genomic Evolution and Function

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Publishing in bioinformatics can have different routes: GitHub, commentaries, short comms; as long as you share your science and tell its story.

AI will always be a tool... Not a replacement

Learn to talk to non-scientists about your science.

Some takeaways:
Work on your soft skills as much as technical skills. They'll be useful in collaborative and multidisciplinary groups/projects.

Be open to surprises in professional roles and ask for help.

A fun icebreaker question to start the panel: Would you rather work with no-comment code or without version control?

Our panellists refuse to live without version control!

What's your take?

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The careers panel with Dr. Johanna McEntyre, Prof. Alicia Oshlack, Dr. Amit Kumar, and Prof. Karin Kassahn begins soon! Make your way to the main room, and start thinking about questions to ask our experienced panel!

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What a brilliant round of lightning talks - we heard about spatial transcriptomics, methylation, and drug resistance, among a variety of other topics. The presenters did a fantastic job using all 90 available seconds to pitch their projects - make it worth their while by checking out their posters!

Enlightening session by Prof. Karin.
Career paths are not always straight
Embrace collaboration and grow with the technology
As bioinformaticians, we should continue to share how our roles and expertise contribute to different industries.

Next up: Lightening ⚡ talks!!!

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Session 1 was a fantastic display of the AI/ML research being conducted throughout Australia. Thanks to Claire Cheng, Daksh Pratap Singh Pamar, Diya Prabhuram, Halimat Chisholm Atanda, and Xiaochen Zhang for their brilliant talks!

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Halfway through the AI/ML session. We've heard about using transformer models, augmentation techniques, and structural modelling to drive real-world biological wins in terms of human-mouse modelling, transcriptomic data imbalance, and variant effect prediction.

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It’s finally time - The 2025 COMBINE Symposium is about to begin! Make your way up to level 3 for the opening address, followed by session 1: AI/ML in biology

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Swag! #ABACBS2025

Excited to be on my way to Adelaide for #ABACBS2025 with guest appearance at #COMBINE2025

⏳ Less than am hour to go until the 2025 COMBINE Symposium kicks off! Here’s how to find us at the conference venue, Adelaide Oval.

Enter via the South Gate and the registration desk will be in front of you. Head up the escalators and get settled for the Symposium opening at 9am!

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Sign up for the SBEI x COMBINE Career Meet-Up.

We’ve got a fantastic lineup of professional bioinformaticians who have volunteered to discuss career trajectories, roles for bioinformaticians, etc.

🗓️: 24 November, Symposium lunch break
📍:MG Suite One, Adelaide Oval, SA
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