Samuel Lampa - [email protected]

📜New post📜 1,5 years ago I pivoted into genomics from pharmaceutical bioinformatics. Pulling off such a pivot besides a full-time job is not easy though so I'm here sharing my experiences and recommendations for anyone else wanting to do the switch! livesys.se/posts/learning…

Yes, I just recommended it to my students.

Sandbox.bio is shaping up to becoming one of the absolute top resources for learning hands on #bioinformatics and #genomics today!

This actually looks somewhat interesting.

Programming is thinking in an even more precise and structured way!

Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.

Indeed, we should.

how it started / how it's going

Out in @NatureBiotech: Metagenome taxonomy profilers usually ignore unknown species. SingleM is an accurate profiler which doesn't, even detecting phyla with no MAGs. Profiles of 700,000 metagenomes at sandpiper.qut.edu.au. doi.org/10.1038/s41587… A 🧵

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

Ok, so it was quite an disappointment to learn that @golang doesn't support generic methods 😏 github.com/golang/go/issu…

Haha, I think this project from 13 years ago - A GUI for configuring #slurm #hpc jobs based on @galaxyproject tool configs - might have been some of the more cool tech I've ever done. (Sadly the project was never completely finished). youtube.com/watch?v=WMjXsB…

Honored to be featured by @IBM Think 📰 “Meet Simular, the startup that wants to build autonomous computers” 👉 ibm.com/think/news/mee… and big thank you to @anabellenicoud for the thoughtful piece. “Technology tries to create something that’s easy to communicate, like voice…

Very much in line with what I(& many others I assume)'ve long suspected . With all that we know today, we should focus much more attention on how we can get better at training our own (completely outstanding) brains, rather than outsourcing the thinking (and thus THE LEARNING).

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As chemical data grows, turning names into machine-readable structures is key for discovery and data integration. OPSIN – now hosted at EMBL-EBI – helps solve this by converting IUPAC names into chemical structures and other machine-readable formats. ebi.ac.uk/about/news/upd…

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🧬Happy Transposon Day! 🎉Each year on the 16th of June we commemorate the birthdate of the founder of transposable element research, Barbara McClintock (1902-1992). Check out quotes from editors and popular content on our #TransposonDay2025 page 👉mobilednajournal.biomedcentral.com/transposonday2…

Uncovering Functional Gene Regulatory Networks in Bulk and Single-Cell Data through Robust Transcription Factor Activity Estimation ... biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_bioinfo

Is scverse.org the start of a Python-alternative to the Bioconductor universe?🤔 #bioinformatics #genomics

Yes, I am relieved to have finally finished the @coursera specialization in Genomic Data Science from @JohnsHopkins uni. Started this some 2.5 years ago and should have been finished way earlier. The problem? Got a job in the field before finishing it 😅 coursera.org/account/accomp…