Robert Aboukhalil

Really excited to unveil sandbox.bio, an interactive playground for learning bioinformatics command-line tools like bedtools, bowtie2, and samtools (and more to come!) 🧑‍💻 🧬 Thanks to @aaronquinlan, @BenLangmead, and @mike_schatz for feedback and tutorial ideas.

Instead of making our own "day in the life of a bioinformatician" video, we used AI to do it for us, and the results made Maria laugh so hard she cried 😂 youtube.com/watch?v=zZuxTb…

💻 Just released a new tutorial: How to write a Bash script, featuring an IDE and a command-line running directly in your browser. No setup required. sandbox.bio/tutorials/bash…

Wow, sandbox.bio now provides a tutorial for viral phylogenetics that you can run right in your browser 🙌 sandbox.bio/tutorials/vira… #microbinfie #bioinformatics #training via @RobAboukhalil

I always found that my resume doesn't do my experience justice, so a portfolio website can be a great visual way to show hiring managers all the good stuff I want them to see. I turned it into a GitHub template that you can copy for free: youtube.com/watch?v=KTRmfX…

📢 Excited to share new features on sandbox.bio: - Python playground to quickly test code - Customize how much RAM the command-line can use: 512MB, 1GB, 2GB (previously fixed at 1GB) - Confetti animations when you finish a tutorial 🙃

🦠 New tutorial on sandbox.bio: Learn to build phylogenetic trees from viral sequences, going from multiple sequence alignment to tree generation and rooting 🧬 💻 sandbox.bio/tutorials/vira…

We always tell people to create a portfolio to showcase their work. Today, we're releasing a template to get you started: github.com/omgenomics/por… It's for scientists and engineers who want a living resume of projects, work timelines, and blog posts that demonstrate expertise.

In 2024, sandbox.bio had >170,000 tutorial page views! 🥳 The most popular tutorials were: 1. ​Terminal basics 2. ​Genomic intervals with bedtools 3. ​Terminal exercises 4. ​Data exploration with awk 5. ​DNA sequencing QC Check them out here: sandbox.bio/tutorials

📢 Our first bioinformatics office hours were a lot of fun, so we will be hosting more of them this year! We will also invite special guests to co-host 👀 Join this Google Group to be notified when the next ones are: groups.google.com/a/omgenomics.c… (login with Google, then "Join Group")

Good evening. I have a huge amount of fraud, waste, and abuse on my iPhone, so I’ve decided to specifically focus on eliminating “system data,” which represents less than 1% of “waste” and will cause crippling long-term effects

We are hosting free bioinformatics office hours on Feb 19th at 10am-noon PST. Bring your bioinformatics career or technical questions, and @RobAboukhalil and I will try to answer them. Sign up here: tally.so/r/mOb6dM Please share especially with early career scientists!

🌲 New tutorial on sandbox.bio: Learn to build phylogenetic trees from closely related genomes using ska2. sandbox.bio/tutorials/ska2…