Martin Smith

The P6 buzzing alone peacefully, discretely filling up hard drives 🧬

Bacteria were swimming from the start New analysis shows that the last common ancestor of bacteria had a flagellar motor which enabled it to swim, indicating how important learning to swim was for life.

Nice @unswbabs.bsky.social UNSW write up of our paper.

✈️ Melbourne now w/ team to present this and other work at #HFSP @hfspo.bsky.social 24th awardee meeting.

Looking forward to getting inspired with new biology from interdisciplinary teams across the world.

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🌅🐦‍⬛Early bird Registration for #AGTA2025 is live!
Submit your abstract 📝 and check-out the awesome 🗓️ program here ➡️ agta2025.org

ABC Radio National Health report on Rosie, featuring @kmichie.bsky.social 📻👂https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/healthreport/ai-lung-cancer-syphilis/105376662

The IncaRNAto lab is seeking a motivated #PhD candidate, interested in studying #RNA structural ensemble dynamics in living cells. Here's the link to the vacancy: www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor.... Please share!

Ah, not that cheap, was just highlighting the favorable exchange rate. It should be well under AU$100 per sample nonetheless. Send me an email with some details and I'll chase it up with the team to generate a quote. martin.smith[ at ]unsw.edu.au

If you're not averse to shipping your samples across the Pacific, @ramacgenomics.bsky.social would gladly assist. AU$1 = US$0.66, so buy two get one free 🤑

Thank you for your service 🫡 The long read bioinformatics community salutes your persistent efforts!

#MeetTheTeamMonday ~ Get to know Steven, our fabulous Research Assistant who works in the amplicon, Sanger, and ONT sequencing teams!

@unswbabs.bsky.social #unsw #ramaciotticentreforgenomics

Is this the catalyst that streamlines clinical AI variant interpretation?
Let's go!

AlphaGenome: advancing regulatory variant effect prediction with a unified DNA sequence model https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.25.661532v1

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Paul is using AI to fight his dog's incurable cancer Faced with losing his beloved dog Rosie to cancer, Paul Conyngham contacted the Ramaciotti Centre for Genomics at UNSW, and has applied artificial intelligence and genomic sequencing in his quest for ...

Speed, quality, and purpose.
The @ramacgenomics.bsky.social is proud to support users like Paul, who are turning #AI and #genomic science into real-world impact–even for man's best friend.
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Join us TODAY for the latest Ramaciotti Centre for Genomics Monthly Seminar, where cutting-edge science meets cost-effective innovation. Featuring Ivonne Petermann showcasing Illumina's PIPseq and Tsz (Andrew) Ho Li from UNSW Biotechnology & Biomolecular Sciences. See you soon! #SingleCell #Illumina

Preprint on "Improving spliced alignment by modeling splice sites with deep learning". It describes minisplice for modeling splice signals. Minimap2 and miniprot now optionally use the predicted scores to improve spliced alignment.
arxiv.org/abs/2506.12986

25 years of discovery: UNSW’s Ramaciotti Centre celebrates milestone One of Australia’s leading genomics research and resource facilities held a special event to mark a quarter of a century of advancing scientific discovery.

25 years of discovery: @ramacgenomics.bsky.social celebrates milestone. One of Australia’s leading genomics research and resource facilities held a special event to mark a quarter of a century of advancing scientific discovery. www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new...

Something special is brewing at @ramacgenomics.bsky.social

Spaceballs 2 better be called "The Search for More Money" or Yogurt is a fraud!

arm64 compilaiton issues, cryptic dependency errors, uninstall-reinstall, sample/metadata alignment, nasty coercion bugs, transpose hell... Just another day of R coding!

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I wish they would rebrand Microsoft Co-Pilot as Clippy 2.0

So satisfying 🤤
#MiSeqi100 @ramacgenomics.bsky.social

#MeetTheTeamMonday ~ Get to know Scott (Research Officer), RNA and robotics expert here at The Ramaciotti Centre for Genomics!

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Join @ramacgenomics.bsky.social for today's #Olink lunch seminar at UNSW, 12-2pm

Register here ⬇️
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ROBIN: A unified nanopore-based assay integrating intraoperative methylome classification and next-day comprehensive profiling for ultra-rapid tumor diagnosis

Really pleased that this paper is out - academic.oup.com/neuro-oncolo... thanks to all our collaborators far and wide who have helped and of course @nanoporetech.com

Have a Prosecco for me!

At this point, I'm fairly certain that Globus file transfer is just teleportation

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Opening the inbox on Friday morning after a long week of meetings

Machine Learning in Computational Biology Youtube channel for the Machine Learning in Computational Biology conference: https://mlcb.github.io/

Free in-person registration is open for #MLCB2025! Sept 10-11 at @nygenome.org and online at youtube.com/@mlcbconf. Paper/abstract deadline is June 1, more deets including our fantastic invited speaker lineup at mlcb.org! Please RP.

New postdoc opening @ UNSW in RNA biology and T cell immunity 🥼🧬🧫. Use molecular biology, nanopore sequencing, and in vivo models to uncover the regulatory drivers of adaptive immunity. Apply 👉 external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...