Adam Witney

Adam Witney

@aawitney.bsky.social

Reader in Bioinformatics. Interested in infectious diseases, bioinformatics and genomics

447 Followers 346 Following 6 Posts Joined Sep 2023
11 months ago
Core Bioinformatics team at QIB -- job offer to join the team as bioinformatics programmer as per link

Hello binfies πŸ‘‹!

There is an open position for a senior bioinformatician to join our fab **core bioinformatics** team at @quadraminstitute.bsky.social.

jobs.quadram.ac.uk/Details.asp?...

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1 year ago
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Interactions and evolutionary relationships among bacterial mobile genetic elements - Nature Reviews Microbiology In this Review, Lang and colleagues present an overview of the current knowledge landscape regarding mobile genetic elements in bacteria, with a focus on their evolutionary relationships and interacti...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In collaboration with Andrew Lang and Alison Buchan, we just published a review on the complex and sometimes convoluted interactions and evolutionary relationships among bacterial mobile genetic elements.
#phage #plasmid #evolution #bacteria #plasmidbiology #MGE

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1 year ago

I use screen for all my remote connections, well worth a look if you aren't using it.

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1 year ago

Also creating multiple screen windows, great for multi-tasking.

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1 year ago

I'm putting together a Microbial Bioinformatics starter pack to help get everyone connected in our community. Let me know if there are any bluesky users to be added and share so that twitter refugees can tune back in to the fantastic world microbes go.bsky.app/3ezLo7e

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2 years ago

Really good blog post from Ryan (as always) on latest ONT accuracy rrwick.github.io/2023/10/24/o...

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2 years ago

Congrats Alasdair!

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2 years ago

Hi! New to BlueSky but I'm the Infection Biology Project Manager at the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) at EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). I work on all things relating to pathogen nucleotide data and metadata standards, plus coordinating dataflow. #HiSciSky #AcademicSky

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2 years ago
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P-DOR, an easy-to-use pipeline to reconstruct bacterial outbreaks using genomics academic.oup.com/bioinformati...
github.com/SteMIDIfacto...

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2 years ago

St George's annual Jenner day, 20th Sept. Come listen to some great talks by Dr Catrin Moore, Prof Shamez Ladhani, Prof Elaine Bignell, Prof Jon Friedland and the Jenner Lecture from Prof
Keith Klugman sgul.ac.uk/events/jenne...

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2 years ago

indeed, but sometimes slow is good... less nonsense pollution! :-) Thanks again for the invite

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2 years ago

This place looks much more normal... so far!

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