Alexandru Tomescu @alextomescu.bsky.social

Assoc. Prof. in Algorithms and Bioinformatics @ University of Helsinki

[Alexandru Tomescu @alextomescu.bsky.social @AlexTomescu0]

Apply via https://t.co/RUGOLajsso

[Alexandru Tomescu @alextomescu.bsky.social @AlexTomescu0]

🚀Exciting PhD Opportunity🚀

Passionate about
🧬Graph algorithms for real-world genome sequencing?
💻Writing efficient, reusable code & libraries?
🌲Exploring stunning Nordic nature?

This PhD position is for YOU! 🎓✨

📅Apply by Mar 2
🔗https://t.co/DY2wog4qz8 #PhD #Algorithms

[Alexandru Tomescu @alextomescu.bsky.social @AlexTomescu0]

Congratulations to Manuel Cáceres for Best Student Paper Award at ICALP 2023 Track A and Best Paper Award at CPM 2023, and to @jnalanko, Simon Puglisi and Jaakko Vuohtoniemi for Best Paper Award at ACDA 2023!
https://t.co/84dYOYfp3c

[Alexandru Tomescu @alextomescu.bsky.social @AlexTomescu0]

Thank you Sebastian for four fruitful years together!

[Alexandru Tomescu @alextomescu.bsky.social @AlexTomescu0]

Congratulations to Sebastian Schmidt @Sebasti66652811 for a successful defense of his PhD thesis "Unitigs Are Not Enough: the Advantages of Superunitig-Based Algorithms in Bioinformatics"! 🎉

We were honored to have Pierre Peterlongo @p_peterlongo acting as Opponent, thank you!

[Alexandru Tomescu @alextomescu.bsky.social @AlexTomescu0]

The second part of his thesis describes optimal graph algorithms and efficient implementations for computing minimum plain-text representations of k-mer sets, with and without repetitions.

This is based on papers published in WABI 2022 - Best Paper Award, and in Genome Biology.

[Hajk-Georg Drost @HajkDrost]

Ever wonder whether comparative genomics at tree-of-life scale is constrained by a systematic optimal alignment bias when searching divergent protein sequences across species? Short answer: We can learn so much more from the suboptimal alignment space! 👉https://t.co/hbaQQmvmG0

[Alexandru Tomescu @alextomescu.bsky.social @AlexTomescu0]

Really great to see our tool GGCAT https://t.co/NpPIWwt4tw being used in scaling other tools!

[Giulio Ermanno Pibiri @giulio_pibiri]

Fulgor’s scalability has improved considerably thanks to the integration of GGCAT. Check this out! Thank you @AlexTomescu0 and Andrea for the great tool. #Bioinformatics
https://t.co/6KY8siLbwP

[Hagen Tilgner / @[email protected] @hagentilgner]

Andrey & Alla put out the newest version of Isoquant
(https://t.co/2bmd5K0pvi); Results unchanged but memory usage down ~10-15 fold and disk usage down ~5-fold;
https://t.co/bdBxlZttdf
#LongRead #RNA @iRnaCosi
#nanopore #pacbio #genomics
#Transcripomics #RNAseq #Splicing

[Alexandru Tomescu @alextomescu.bsky.social @AlexTomescu0]

Great to see this use of GGCAT!

[Jarno N. Alanko @[email protected] & Bluesky @jnalanko]

Part 3: Indexing. Themisto is designed to scale. We were able to index 179 thousand Salmonella genomes in just 9 hours. Most of the heavy lifting is done by the fantastic GGCAT colored unitig builder, which is integrated to Themisto via the C++ API. 13/16 https://t.co/qHvhltHtG2

[University of Helsinki @helsinkiuni]

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[Computer Science @ University of Helsinki @UnivHelsinkiCS]

@helsinkiuni sees AI as an opportunity that provides both teachers and students with means to develop in their work and studies.

Hannu Toivonen @haba_tt emphasises that language models should be used in support of your own thinking and brainstorming.

https://t.co/b8La32l5NU

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[Computer Science @ University of Helsinki @UnivHelsinkiCS]

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Alla muutama hyvä syy hakea meille!

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[Alexandru Tomescu @alextomescu.bsky.social @AlexTomescu0]

@RayanChikhi Have a good #DSB2023 everyone, I’m also sorry to miss it!

[Rayan Chikhi @RayanChikhi]

#DSB2023 Data structures in bioinformatics workshop is starting in Delft, program: https://t.co/1YB9zL3PdB

[Rayan Chikhi @RayanChikhi]

Our Xmas (and #recomb2023) preprint is out, mapquik! See Barış' thread, and here I give additional context.