Friday was my last day at NHGRI. After 10 wonderful years, my lab is headed to Johns Hopkins University genomeinformatics.github.io/movingday/

🔄 Inversions predispose to recurrent deletions and duplications in chromsome 15q13.3. 🔁 Using de-novo assemblies of 10 patient-parent trios, we investigated how recurrent copy-number variants (CNVs) in the 15q13.3 locus arise. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A brief tour (1/17)

Time for a thread on our Christmas preprint “Origin and evolution of acrocentric chromosomes in human and great apes”. I had so much fun with this project and paper. It will be hard to summarize in a thread, but I’ll try www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... [1/21]

Absolutely thrilled to share the latest work from my lab focused on the variation and evolution of human centromeres among global populations! We assembled 2,110 human centromeres, identifying 226 new major haplotypes and 1,870 α-satellite HOR variants. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Wow, more than 2.4M of assembled bacteria in the new release of ABT! We plan to index these using our efficient colored De Bruijn graph index, Fulgor. We recently conducted experiments with nearly 1M genomes…getting there :) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Another taste of the future of human genetics, also in @nature.com. Long-read sequencing in >1,000 humans across 26 populations shows how the approach can accelerate biological & medical research. Work led by @bernardo-rodriguez.bsky.social @trausch.bsky.social @tobiasmar.bsky.social & Jan Korbel.🧬🧪

Telomere-to-telomere DNA sequencing is set to transform the field of human genetics in coming years. For a flavour of what's coming, see this exciting work on nearly complete genomes of 65 individuals from diverse populations, out today in @nature.com by @glennislogsdon.bsky.social & colleagues. 👇🧬🧪

[1/8] *New Open-Access Long Read Resource*. We sequenced 1,019 genomes from the 1000 Genomes Project sample cohort using @nanoporetech.com long-read sequencing (LRS) to median 17x coverage. Publication at go.nature.com/4ffPb8f. @hhu.de @crg.eu @embl.org @impvienna.bsky.social

Lovely write up on our paper from @jacksonlab.bsky.social. It's been <4 years since I joined the HGSVC, and together with Peter Audano and Parithi Balachandran in my lab, @tobiasmar.bsky.social, @glennislogsdon.bsky.social, and many others, we've done a lot. Here's to great collaborators!

Two papers in today's issue of @nature.com ‬: 1) we assemble 65 genomes to near completion, including centromeres and the MHC. tinyurl.com/3huhax6w. 2) we sequence 1,019 genomes from the 1kGP with long reads, revealing SVs down to low allele frequencies tinyurl.com/wbx3we9x.

🖥️🧬 Now, Zahra is talking about oarfish, for your long read RNA-seq quantification needs! github.com/COMBINE-lab/...

🧬 & 🖥️ 📢Call for Posters #GCB2025 | Join the #bioinformatics and #computationalbiology community at the German Conference on Bioinformatics! Submit your poster now! Important Deadlines: 📌 Early Bird Registration: 5 July 25 📌 Poster Submission: 7 August 25 🔗 gcb2025.de/GCB2025_call...

🚨 Registration is OPEN for the 18th Berlin Summer Meeting – Sequencing Planet Earth! 📍 MDC-BIMSB @mdc-berlin.bsky.social 🗓️ June 19–20, 2025 🔗 mdc-berlin.de/BSM2025 #BSM2025 #mdcBerlin #SystemsBiology #Genomics #DataScience (1/5)

Submit your abstracts from all areas of #bioinformatics and #computationalbiology for the German Conference on Bioinformatics - #GCB2025 at University of Dusseldorf from 22 - 24 September 2025! abstract submission: gcb2025.de @denbi.bsky.social @openbio.bsky.social @SIB.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy