Stephen Turner 🦋 @stephenturner.us
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Data scientist, bioinformatician, dad, runner, guitar noise-maker. Views my own. Blog (Paired Ends): https://blog.stephenturner.us/. Mostly cross-posts from 🦋
Yesterday was my last day at @Colossal Biosciences. Next month I'm re-joining the faculty at the University of Virginia @UVA as Associate Professor of Data Science and asst. Dean of Research! @uvadatascience blog.stephenturner.us/p/returning-to…
Leviathan: A fast, memory-efficient, and scalable taxonomic and pathway profiler for next generation sequencing (pan)genome-resolved metagenomics and metatranscriptomics biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/jolespin/levia…
useR! 2025 virtual registration is free user2025.r-project.org/program/virtua… #Rstats
Genomic reproducibility in the bioinformatics era genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…
Gene Editing May Aid in Biodiversity Conservation and Restoration technologynetworks.com/tn/news/gene-e…
#Gene editing could restore lost #GeneticDiversity in #EndangeredSpecies, offering a powerful tool to combat genomic erosion and enhance resilience alongside traditional conservation methods. @uniofeastanglia doi.org/g9tjxp phys.org/news/2025-07-g…
The Impact of Reference Genome Divergence on Ancient DNA Damage Detection in Metagenomic Contexts biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/BenjaminGuinet…
Gene editing offers transformative solution to saving endangered species phys.org/news/2025-07-g… @colossal
Gene editing offers transformative solution to saving endangered species uea.ac.uk/about/news/art…
SSAlign: Ultrafast and Sensitive Protein Structure Search at Scale biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/ISYSLAB-HUST/S…
STELLA: Self-Evolving LLM Agent for Biomedical Research biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
New online! Genome engineering in biodiversity conservation and restoration bit.ly/3IEka1v
Biomni: A General-Purpose Biomedical AI Agent biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/snap-stanford/…
ALPAR: Automated Learning Pipeline for Antimicrobial Resistance biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/kalininalab/AL…
Will anyone review this paper? Screening, sorting, and the feedback cycles that imperil peer review arxiv.org/abs/2507.10734
New blog post: Positron Assistant provides inline completions with GitHub Copilot and chat/agent using Claude 4 Sonnet. Demo: using agent mode to create an #Rstats package with Roxygen2 docs and testthat unit tests. doi.org/10.59350/gkj90…