Our review paper on 'Genome assembly in the telomere-to-telomere era' published online in Nature Reviews Genetics. It amazes me how much assembly has progressed in the past four years – often ~100X improvement in contiguity and base accuracy and with haplotypes and hard regions resolved!

If anyone doesn’t know, the {ggdist} package is THE package for plotting distributions. It produces absolutely gorgeous figures of analytic or data distributions. Aside from {ggplot2}, this is probably the package I use the most for dataviz.

Two new chapters from my open-access textbook in human population genetics are now online:
- Population structure: I. Ancestry estimation
- Population structure: II. More about admixture
web.stanford.edu/group/pritchar…

Is there a C library that does back/forward substitution on sparse matrices that is multi-threaded? I tried Eigen but it does not support openmp for this operation.

Dr. Ivan Pocrnic, a Researcher at Roslin Institute, will present a seminar on April 12th, 2024, at 1:30 PM EST on “Making big data small and small data big: the story of genomic dimensionality”. For details check: cgil.uoguelph.ca/events/2024/04…

📢 Join us for the next #CGDG seminar on 16/04 at 3 PM UK time. 🧬Prof Hinayah Rojas (Purdue) will be talking with us about 'Unveiling the potential of longitudinal traits for genetic and genomic analyses' !🧬 Email ([email protected]) if you'd like access

Exciting post for a Quantitative Genetics and Breeding scientist to develop and implement a breeding programme for artemia - a Knowledge Transfer Partnership between aquanzo & The Roslin Institute . Innovate UK HighlanderLab elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

Highlighting some work I've enjoyed reading recently: 'DNA language models are powerful predictors of genome-wide variant effects' by Gonzalo Benegas, Sanjit Batra, and Yun S. Song: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
It's simply incredible unsupervised DNA language models can learn so much!

Cross Potential Selection: A Proposal for Optimizing Crossing Combinations in Recurrent Selection Based on the Ability of Future Inbred Lines dlvr.it/T586f0

Impossible to stress enough how good linear and logistic regression are at what they do. If there’s structure, add it. Don’t rely on deep learning ideas because it’s not data efficient by design

Are you a comp biologist looking for your next position? Do you dream of nominating loci and seeing those targets edited in planta? Join us Inari ! Previous exp. in plants is not required.
Feel free to apply below or reach out if you have q's. grnh.se/5a04d3c12us

This talk (the Biblically accurate Bayesian -or- Bayes without Frequentist Language) was recorded and is available on the ytube now: youtube.com/watch?v=oHWNex…

30% discount book sale during April, with the code APR30 Raphael Mrode Gregor Gorjanc Robin Thompson & Ivan Pocrnic cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/book/10.10…

Aylwyn Scally Richard Durbin In summary, here is a (simplified) diagram of human evolutionary history, with the contributions from cobraa highlighted in red.

Another seminar! This time Christian Werner talking about “Accelerating genetic gain in CGIAR crop breeding programs”

This amazing video from Gates Foundation stars our own Professor Mike Coffey Mike Coffey #phenotypeisking https://t.co/1ZZ2FBBs and Professor Raphael Mrode. A dating app for cows (well, kind of) doesn't just produce high-yield cows. It can also create a thriving local economy & nutrition for kids. buff.ly/4a78dKA

Great to see #SRUCResearch with partners from ILRI.org and farmers on the ground in Africa featured in this Gates Foundation story on great people doing great things. gatesfoundation.org/ideas/partners… CTLGH Mike Coffey #phenotypeisking https://t.co/1ZZ2FBBs

Awesome to have one of the legends of applied quantitative genetics - Ignacy Misztal - at The Roslin Institute this week - hosted by Ivan Pocrnic

New lab preprint by John McAuley : the genetic architecture of recombination rates is sexually-dimorphic and polygenic in wild house sparrows. What have we found…? A 🧵👇 (Image:Tilly (Matilda S) Scott)
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

📺 The recording of this seminar with Maya Hiltpold on GxE of mother-lamb energy allocation trade-offs is now available on our YouTube channel! 🧬🐑💻
Check is out 👉 youtu.be/eJp_XyzMW3I