Sanduni Rajapaksa @sand-u - Bluesky Profile

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#abacbs2025

26.11.2025 04:17 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Chelsea Mayoh at #abacbs2025: "If you're not using RNA-seq in your precision medicine program you're probably missing stuff"! Great to see @aliciao.bsky.social lab tools MINTIE, ALLsorts and TALLsorts making an appearance 🎉

26.11.2025 03:43 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

Learn how to ATAClone on Friday 29 Nov 9.00 am @ Room 506, Festival Tower
github.com/TrigosTeam/A...

#ABACBS2025 @lachlancain.bsky.social @abacbs.bsky.social @annatrigos.bsky.social

26.11.2025 01:26 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

PeterMac @petermaccc.bsky.social representing at #abacbs2025 What a community 😍

26.11.2025 01:03 — 👍 35 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0

Caught mid talk moment @vijinim.bsky.social @abacbs.bsky.social #ABACBS2025

26.11.2025 00:35 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Great opportunity! #ABACBS2025

25.11.2025 07:26 — 👍 6 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

🧬 Come check out my poster on agtools, an open-source Python framework for analysing and manipulating assembly graphs at #ABACBS2025 Poster #106
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💻 Github: github.com/Vini2/agtools
📄 Preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

25.11.2025 23:21 — 👍 27 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 0

Targeted sequencing and iterative assembly of near-complete genomes - Nature Communications Long-read sequencing enables high-quality genome assemblies, but challenges remain. Here, the authors introduce Cornetto, a method that improves assembly quality, enables genome sequencing from saliva...

Thanks mate

Off the press just couple of hours before the talk
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

25.11.2025 07:08 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Many of the resources we use regularly today were originally developed in the 1990s #abacbs2025

24.11.2025 23:22 — 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Research Funding in Australia
- Philanthropic Funding top 50 bodies give away 1.3 billion a year
- New set of grants from ARC (more ECRS support!) with some terminating
- Improved peer review process at NHMRC - 70 - 10-15% improved allocations
#ABACBS2025 @abacbs.bsky.social @nhmrc.bsky.social

25.11.2025 01:10 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

@sand-u is following 20 prominent accounts

Cancer Bioinformatics Australia
@cancerbioinfoau

The Cancer Bioinformatics Australia Symposium brings together those with an interest in the application of #Bioinformatics in #CancerResearch #ClinicalPractice https://cancerbioinformatics.au

Anuradha Wickramarachchi
@anuradhawick

Passionate scientist and an engineer seeking solutions for thorniest problems at scale 🧬👨🏽‍💻 https://anuradhawick.com

George Bouras
@gbouras13

Bioinformatics @ University of Adelaide - phages, microbes and more

Ryan Wick
@rrwick

Bioinformatician at the Centre for Pathogen Genomics at the University of Melbourne

EMBL-EBI
@ebi.embl.org

EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) provides open biological data resources and tools, and performs basic research in computational biology. https://www.ebi.ac.uk/

Zamin Iqbal
@zaminiqbal

Professor of Algorithmic and Microbial Genomics at the University of Bath (UK). Pangenomes, drug resistance (esp TB), data structures for DNA search, plasmid evolution, global microbial surveillance. Open Data, reproducibility

David Ma
@frostickle

Now based in Sydney! Bioinformatician, Software Engineer, Systems Architect I can help with: Data Architecture, HPC Infrastructure, Cloud Compute, AI Agents, Data Visualisation, UX Prev: Garvan, Peter Mac, MCRI, AGRF

Hasindu Gamaarachchi
@hasindu2008

Lecturer at UNSW Sydney; Visiting Scientist at Garvan Institute of Medical Research - Designing embedded systems for bioinformatics applications.

Vijini Mallawaarachchi
@vijinim

Research Fellow @ Flinders University | #Bioinformatics, #Algorithms and #Metagenomics 🧬🦠 | Blog at http://vijini.medium.com

Jovana Maksimovic
@jovmaksimovic

Senior Research Associate in Bioinformatics & Computational Biology in the Oshlack Lab @petermaccc.bsky.social Australia. Mum. Sci-fi nerd. Cat person. Really loves cheese. And dancing.

Monika Mohenska
@mmohenska

Bioinformatician at the Polo Lab. Interested in epigenetics and cell fate 🧬👩‍💻 Monash Biomedical Discovery Institute, Monash University, Adelaide Centre for Epigenetics, SAiGENCI, The University of Adelaide

Gunjan Dixit
@gunjand

Bioinformatics Postdoc, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

Michael Roach
@beardymcjohnface

He/him; bioinformatician; enthusiast brewer and certified beer judge; running stuff on your head node.

Lachlan Cain
@lachlancain

Bioinformatician at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

Gerry Tonkin-Hill
@gerrythill

Group leader at Peter Mac & the Doherty Institute in Melbourne, Australia microbial genomics, statistics, machine learning

Michelle Meier
@michellemeier

she/her Bioinformatics PhD Student @Oshlack Lab based in Naarm/Melbourne

Richard Lupat
@rlupat

Bioinformatics Engineer @PeterMacRes

Ellis Patrick
@ellispatrick

Statistical Bioinformagician with interests in cytometry and precision medicine. Associate Professor at the University of Sydney, Sydney Precision Data Science Centre, and Westmead Institute for Medical Research. https://ellispatrick.github.io/

Shila Ghazanfar
@shazanfar

Nikeisha Caruana
@nikeishacaruana

Lead Bioinformatician in the Stroud Lab @UniMelb Bio21 Institute | Computational Mass Spec Multi-Omics | Chair of ABACBS Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility Committee