@pjacock

Bioinformatician at @HuttonICS, one of developers on @Biopython; @OBF_news president. Tweets are my own. He/him/his https://xitter.cf/t.co/ODTvOjGtDb

 Dundee, UK
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Joined July 2009
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Delighted to be at the @OBF_BOSC 2023 #cofest. Looking forward to a productive couple of days! #BOSC2023
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Peter Cock retweeted
BOSC@OBF_BOSC23 Jul 2023
We're super-excited for our 24th annual BOSC, #BOSC2023, starting on July 24! Don't miss the opening keynote by Sara El-Gebali (@yalahowy), after a brief "Welcome to BOSC" session including @obf_news and #cofest overviews. open-bio.org/events/bosc-202… 🍐
BOSC keynote speaker Sara El-Gebali

ALT BOSC keynote speaker Sara El-Gebali

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Peter Cock retweeted
BOSC@OBF_BOSC23 Jul 2023
If you’re not at the pre-#BOSC2023 #cofest, you’re missing out on the interesting discussions, fruitful collaborations, and amazing lunches provided by our local hosts, @ENSdeLyon / @RDPlab (thank you, Jérémy Just!)
CoFest participants enjoying an outdoor lunch (first day)

ALT CoFest participants enjoying an outdoor lunch (first day)

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I've only logged into my dormant Twitter account to check for any messages etc (I no longer have a working Twitter client). Nowadays I am on Mastodon, see fediscience.org/@pjacock - Thanks.

Peter Cock (@[email protected])

9.28K Posts, 436 Following, 752 Followers · #Bioinformatician / #ResearchSoftwareEngineer working in Scotland, initially in plant pathology (including nematodes and Phytophthora). #Python programmer,...

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Do people have favorite genome similarity matrix viz examples that they would suggest we implement in sourmash? Think "have N genomes / samples, want to cluster & display comparison of them all." Pointers to papers and tutorials v. welcome! cc @pjacock ref github.com/sourmash-bio/sour…

sourmash compare matrix plot matplotlib labels too large/overlapping · Issue #2587 · sourmash-bio...

Running sourmash plot --pdf --labels example.npy with ~200 signatures gives plots where the labels are too large and therefore overlap. Looking at https://github.com/sourmash-bio/sourmash/blob/late...

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I have banged on at length about this problem, in the context of this project, before. figshare.com/articles/poster…
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Great work by @pjacock @Llewelyn68 and Pete Thorpe, finally getting this one into the public eye! My personal takeaway from working on this is that accurate metabarcoding is much harder than most people, or publications, let on. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

THAPBI PICT - a fast, cautious, and accurate metabarcoding analysis pipeline

THAPBI PICT is an open source software pipeline for metabarcoding analysis with multiplexed Illumina paired-end reads, including where different amplicons are sequenced together. We demonstrate using...

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Elon Musk
@elonmusk19 Dec 2022
Those who want power are the ones who least deserve it
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Peter Cock retweeted
Alie Ward@alieward18 Dec 2022
Just a reminder that you have one body to last forever so you can wear a mask wherever you feel like it and fuck anyone who pressures you to take it off
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Universal masking linked to fewer covid cases in schools, study finds - The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/education…

Universal masking leads to fewer covid cases in schools, study finds

New data backs public health rules from earlier in the pandemic.

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If you want to automatically follow on 🐘 the people that you follow on 🐤, Debirdify is a good way to do it. Do it now while you still can. debirdify.pruvisto.org/
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The @UniOslo now imposing a two-factor authentication without asking for any feedback from the scientific community. We now need to have our phone to validate the login with ssh for instance! Every freaking time... It is very annoying IMO. Also imposed on email, calendars, etc.
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If you are a college student who likes to nod intently at your professors while they're talking in class, just know that all of them adore you and think you are the absolute greatest
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I see questions like, "Can I just post stuff on preprint servers instead of submitting to journals?" on Quora pretty regularly. Sure - if you don't care about having a full-time paid career in research.
Federico Giorgi@giorgilab27 Nov 2022
Replying to @BardinLab
Student recently told me she doesn't need to publish anything, because Biorxiv exists. Of course grant agency wanted real publications and we didn't get the grant renewal. i don't blame biorxiv but its existence gives a great excuse for lazy students not to write polished papers
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Grr. I woke up yesterday with a crick in my neck and it is still bugging me. I am thankful though that I did not get a Watson.
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We are so sad to share the news that our key architect and lead engineer has passed away. @SimonGladman1 was as smart and generous as they come - a role model for us all. Deepest condolences to his many friends and much loved family biocommons.org.au/news/simon…

Remembering Simon Gladman — Australian BioCommons

Simon was a treasured role model, a generous supporter and a trusted advisor to his Australian BioCommons, Melbourne Bioinformatics and Galaxy Australia team members. Simon has been a community...

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Peter Cock retweeted
BOSC@OBF_BOSC28 Nov 2022
BOSC now has a Mastodon account at genomic.social/@BOSC along side our OBF account at genomic.social/@OpenBio #TwitterMigration #BOSC2023 will be in Lyon, France as part of ISMB/ECCB 2023 iscb.org/ismbeccb2023

BOSC (OpenBio's Conference) (@[email protected])

179 Posts, 74 Following, 340 Followers · #Bioinformatics #OpenSource Conference (BOSC), run by the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF, @OpenBio). BOSC 2026 will take place July 14-15 as part of ISMB...

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Peter Cock retweeted
OBF News@obf_news25 Nov 2022
The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) now has a Mastodon account genomic.social/@OpenBio #TwitterMigration

Open Bioinformatics Foundation (@[email protected])

70 Posts, 17 Following, 640 Followers · The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) is a non-profit, volunteer-run organization that supports #OpenSource #bioinformatics. Our member projects include...

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