Martin Smith
@martinalexsmith
Genomics technocrat, Bioinformatics, RNA & Bash-Fu 🥷; Director @ramacgenomics ; Associate Prof. @UNSWBABS ; Member of @UNSWRNA
The evolution of high-order genome architecture revealed from 1,000 species biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/xjtu-omics/HiA…
🧐 Check out the new and improved Ramaciotti Centre for Genomics, UNSW website 💫 Now with more clarity, less complexity 🔗tinyurl.com/bdzxy4v4

We turn 25 today! July 7th marks the 25th anniversary of the human genome going online and the start of the UCSC Genome Browser. Then vs. now, we have 165k monthly visitors, and our codebase is over three million lines of code. See our news for more: bit.ly/genomeBrowser2…
🌅🐦⬛Early bird Registration for #AGTA2025 is live! Submit your abstract 📝 and check-out the awesome 🗓️ program here ➡️ agta2025.org

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For many of those who were asking on BLOW5 vs POD5 for nanopore signal data, here is a finally detailed benchmark we did: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Summary: performance of BLOW5 is >= POD5 (from ~= to 100X, see below), with benefit of having ~3 dependencies instead of >50.
For many of those who were asking on BLOW5 vs POD5 for nanopore signal data, here is a finally detailed benchmark we did: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Summary: performance of BLOW5 is >= POD5 (from ~= to 100X, see below), with benefit of having ~3 dependencies instead of >50.
ABC radio news report on this👂 abc.net.au/listen/program…
When Paul's dog was diagnosed with incurable cancer, he turned to #AI and #genomics for help. @ramacgenomics delivered fast, bespoke sequencing –accelerating vital insights. Societal impact starts with speed. 🧬#PrecisionHealth @UNSWScience 🔗 news.unsw.edu.au/en/paul-is-usi…
When Paul's dog was diagnosed with incurable cancer, he turned to #AI and #genomics for help. @ramacgenomics delivered fast, bespoke sequencing –accelerating vital insights. Societal impact starts with speed. 🧬#PrecisionHealth @UNSWScience 🔗 news.unsw.edu.au/en/paul-is-usi…

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. unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/…
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 👉 tinyurl.com/422n7hr6
Introducing cornetto, an adaptive genome assembly paradigm using @nanopore adaptive sampling. - greatly reduces cost per genome assembly - reference agnostic, so works for non-humans - assembly just using saliva - & many more Relies on 2 excellent software #readfish & #hifiasm.
Adaptively integrated sequencing and assembly of near-complete genomes biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_genomic
Join us next week in Sydney 🇦🇺 for the first iteration of a new @ramacgenomics #genomics seminar series. This session will showcase @nanoporetech through the research of two local scientists. Come for the 🧬🧑🔬, stay for the 🍱🍗🥒 and 🍺🍷! shorturl.at/iE2a1

⏳Last chance to apply for this senior #genomics professional position with @ramacgenomics ➡️Learn more and apply here: external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/5306…

⏳Applications close tomorrow for this unique professional role with @ramacgenomics to develop and implement emerging #singlecell technologies. ➡️Apply here: external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/5306…

For those who want to run nanopore basecalling on the Australia'a @PawseyCentre supercomputer (or any other AMD GPU clusters in general): pawsey.org.au/pawsey-enables…
We are excited to announce the release of the @enGenome_srl VarChat track for hg38 and hg19. This track uses AI to search papers for variants, providing information such as its gene, HGVS nomenclature, and dbSNP rsID. Learn more at genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/new….
The only time it's good to see so much blue when looking at pore occupancy @nanopore #nanopore #AGBTGM
