well done team!

🔊Applications invited: hashtag#Funded BITS–RMIT hashtag#PhD program offering international experience. We have two #WomenHealth oriented #DigitalHealth projects listed. These projects are designed to look at unique Australian and Indian context of different womens health outcome questions.

We are delighted to announce that #ABACBS2026 will be held at RMIT, Melbourne CBD campus from 16th to 20th November 2026. Big thanks to A/Prof. Sonika Tyagi and team for leading this years organising! More details and official conference launch to follow! #bioinformatics @combine1.bsky.social

Kudos to Sam and @aashishbhandari.com !

#MultiOmics data #integration using #MachineLearning. A book chapter co-authored with PhD student Samitha Amarapathy.

Deadline extended to 3 Feb 2026 #Spreadtheword

Lead author @aashishbhandari.com

‼️ New Publicaiton alert ‼️ Delighted to share the publication of our article “A comparative evaluation of handling missing data points and modalities in electronic health records” accepted in the International Journal of Medical Informatics. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#repost in your network. Postdoctoral Fellowship with @tyagilab.bsky.social and Barcelona Supercomputing Centre.

Thank you 🙏🏼

Conference diary Dec 2025

Team day out @tyagilab.bsky.social

Our lab head, @tsonika.bsky.social, presented at the 2025 Victorian Affiliation of Research Nurses Inc. Conference on the applications of AI in clinical trials. The session sparked a great exchange of ideas with delegates, highlighting the excitement and opportunities in this rapidly evolving field.

Preprint from the lab.

Our invited editorial in BMC Artificial Intelligence along with @naimavahab.bsky.social

New publication from the lab

Nice there’s another ML standards case study in this #IDW2025 “long-tail of supplemental data” session, Slava Tykhonov presenting on Croissant ML docs.google.com/presentation...

Our Digital Health and AI applications reading group is on this week. Join in.

The pre-print of our #SIGIRAP2025 paper titled "ISMIE: A Framework to Characterize Information Seeking in Modern Information Environments" is now available arxiv.org/abs/2510.07644 @shuoqisun.bsky.social @danulah.bsky.social @admscentre.org.au @rmitcomputing.bsky.social

@ewanbirney.bsky.social on the new version of Alphafold at the @emblebi.bsky.social www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/t... AlphaFold has been a transformation not just in structural biology but also - due to its ability to be applied to all proteins - to molecular biology as a whole.

My colleagues and I here at UVA are looking to hire a skilled #Rstats developer. You'll be working with me on the project. Here's the posting: jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...

ChatGPT scores up to 97% on medical facts — yet fails to read symptoms. Experts like Ahmed Abdeen Hamed and Dr Andrew Thornton warn: AI can inform, not diagnose. The real challenge now? Using it responsibly in healthcare. #healthcare

"Your best defense isn’t your eyes — it’s your brain. Keep practicing media and digital literacy..." #discover #MedSky #MentalHealth #AI www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Discover how AI can help creators beat creative block, visualize ideas, and craft standout portfolios—without replacing human creativity. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence opendatascience.com/the-ai-advan...

A solemn day as we pay our respects to Dr Jane Goodall and her extraordinary legacy. Vale, Jane, we promise to keep fighting for all that you loved and fought for too! theconversation.com/only-if-we-h... With @drkyliesoanes.bsky.social, Marissa Parrott, @drvanessapirotta.bsky.social & Zara Bending.

A versatile machine learning pipeline to find co-regulatory modules (CRMs) in DNA. Check it out and explore: doi.org/10.1016/j.co... #Genomics #Epigenomics #MachineLearning #CardiacResearch #OpenScience @tyagilab.bsky.social @tsonika.bsky.social

🩺 Missing medical data isn't just something to fill in or ignore! EHRs often have missing values. Common fix? Imputation. But filling gaps can mislead predictions. We explore ML approaches to handle missingness while preserving the original data distribution. 📜 www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

Congratulations to @yashpalr.bsky.social on his graduation! @tyagilab.bsky.social

Sharenting is the name given to the action of parents sharing photos of their children online. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Incredibly proud of @kxhuang.bsky.social for persisting with such a challenging dataset from her PhD! We found some intriguing genetic targets in a corticostriatal circuit that may be involved in the development of #anorexia nervosa 🤔 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Earlybird registration & abstract submissions now open for the 𝟒𝟕𝐭𝐡 𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝟏𝟓-𝟏𝟖𝐭𝐡 𝐅𝐞𝐛 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔: https://www.lornegenome.org/registrations (deadline 7th Nov 2025) Speakers: https://www.lornegenome.org/speakers We look forward to seeing you there!

Kudos to Naima Vahab for presenting her PhD research at "Storytelling for Impactful Research (STIR) Competition " at RMIT STEM College. What an amazing opportunity for polishing your #scicomm skills and knowledge sharing across STEM disciplines. @tyagilab.bsky.social @rmitcomputing.bsky.social

🧠 Just out in Bioinformatics Advances: “Predicting gene expression using millions of yeast promoters reveals cis-regulatory logic”   Explore the paper here: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbaf130 Authors include: @susbo.bsky.social

#ProudBlue #Voices4Victory Science Matters! Scientists have found protein fragments from the Covid-19 virus hidden inside tiny cellular packages in the blood of long-covid patients, offering the first potential measurable biomarker for the condition. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

SARS-CoV-2 causes systemic vascular damage via viral proteins and immune dysregulation, driving acute organ failure and Long COVID. Vaccination reduces these risks significantly. davidlingenfelter.substack.com/p/the-vascul...

SciTech Daily: 'Scientists Detect “Ghost” Proteins That Could Explain Long COVID' 'Scientists have uncovered viral protein fragments lingering in the blood of long COVID patients, potentially offering the first measurable biomarker for the condition.' scitechdaily.com/scientists-d...

Contributions to review on graph learning:

New comment A layered strategy for tackling antimicrobial resistance: the Swiss cheese model for policy, prevention, and engagement www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #IDSky #ClinMicro #AMR #OpenAccess #OA

This looks like a creative use of transformers. Looking forward to diving into this. arxiv.org/abs/2508.04111

We had a fantastic day for team building and a send-off lunch and marking our mid-season break. It was a lovely opportunity to come together and celebrate, with some intense competition on the bowling lanes! 😆 We will miss having you around at @tyagilab.bsky.social @muraliaadhitya.bsky.social 🙌🏽

🚀 Excited to see this work on "Empowering bioinformatics communities with Nextflow and @nf-co.re" is now published, showcasing the incredible growth and impact of the community. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

An analysis shows that current deep learning models do not beat linear baselines in predicting gene perturbation effects, thus emphasizing the importance of further method development and evaluation. @const-ae.bsky.social @wkhuber.bsky.social @s-anders.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Age verification is coming to search engines in Australia – with huge implications for privacy and inclusion www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We've officially launched the our #eDNA Parks Australia dashboard! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... I've worked quite a bit into this the past few months, including the chatbot (langchain+Python+Claude) and the finetuned DNABERT-S+tSNE to visualise 'unknown'/unlabeled eDNA