@robdfinn.bsky.social
Senior Scientist, Section Head, Team Leader at EMBL-EBI. PI of MGnify and co-lead of Ensembl, passionate about microbes and microbiome research. Bit of a tech geek too.
A pictures of Johanna presenting at ISMB
Gave my first conference talk at #ISMBECCB2025.
Presented *gemsparcl* 💎✨, my PhD tool for clustering millions of genomes into species-level clusters - fast.
So grateful to have been selected for a talk and enjoyed connecting with so many great people!
Preprint hopefully coming later this summer! ☀️
A photograph of a speaker on a stage and a screen projecting presentation slides.
A photograph of an EMBL-EBI booth at a conference.
A photograph of a speaker on stage with a screen projecting presentation slides and an audience looking towards the stage.
Did you attend @iscb.bsky.social's #ismbeccb2025 🇬🇧? @ebi.embl.org colleagues (including reps from #Ensembl, @deciphergenomics.bsky.social, @training.ebi.embl.org, @pdbeurope.bsky.social and @expressionatlas.bsky.social) surely did! 🧬
We snapped some pics of @malloryfreeberg.bsky.social in action 🎤
Now we have what I call the big three biomes represented in @mgnifydb.bsky.social, soil, marine and human. We are constantly looking for MAGs to add to our catalogues. Talk to @tgurbich.bsky.social if you have data you want to contribute.
22.07.2025 14:51 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Great to see jackhammer is back! If you have not tried it please give it a go. We would welcome constructive feedback. We are still adding features.
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Phill Read presenting RO-Crate in #BOSC2025, we’ve been increasing numbers of papers with associated RO-Crates, and have a summer internship working on it at the moment #ISMBECCB2025
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MGnify are at ISMB/ECCB 2025 this week!
Catch our talks on Wednesday to learn about our latest services and tools. 👇 #ISMB2025 #ISMBECCB2025
The enigma machine on display at the Alan Turing Institute, London.
Attended a meeting on AI and biological research at the Alan Turing Institute, convened by the UK Cabinet Office. Interesting discussions on the benefits, risks and challenges. A big challenge for @ebi.embl.org will be delivering data slices, moving it to HPCs and then on to the GPUs efficiently.
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Email announcing the first release of Ensembl
Cake to celebrate 25 years of Ensembl
Celebrating 25 years of @ensembl.bsky.social - the first announcement from @ewanbirney.bsky.social, milestone 1 was ensembl.org - thanks to all have worked on the resource, and the scientists who use it. Many exciting developments to present pangenomes, capture biodiversity and scale for the future
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