CBCB at UMD

The @UofMaryland Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology is dedicated to research on questions arising from the genome revolution.

[CBCB at UMD @UMDCBCB]

Our researchers presented 4 papers @RECOMBconf that introduced new methods for improving genome sequencing to better study evolutionary trees, tumors & cancer.

The papers were coauthored by @nomad421, @erinkmolloy & their graduate students.

Learn more: https://t.co/x5ur8D2rml

[Technica @gotechnica]

Registration for Technica 2023 is OFFICIALLY LIVE! Head on over to https://t.co/EqlMBzsPx1 and secure a spot in The Hotel at UMD this October 21st-22nd! Hack through a multitude of experiences with our theme for this year: #CreateYourReality

[Dr. Darryll J. Pines @President_Pines]

Last night was a momentous occasion as we recognized the exceptional achievements of Dr. Rita Rossi Colwell. The renaming of USM's IMET Columbus Center as the Rita Rossi Colwell IMET Center stands as a testament to her historic contributions to marine science and microbiology.

[𝕐 @nomad421]

Do you ever look at something amazing someone in your lab has done and say "Wow; this is awesome!"? Well, here's a very short story starring @DongzeHe! As part of simpleaf (https://t.co/y5ydyQtW0b), we rely on another package we wrote called pyroe (https://t.co/u10b3AKB9O). 1/15

[𝕐 @nomad421]

The journal version of TreeTerminus (led by @PratapNoor and with @mikelove) is now out! https://t.co/66CRwba18u. TreeTerminus presents a new way to aggregate and analyze RNA seq data. 1/2

[CBCB at UMD @UMDCBCB]

Join us in welcoming our 2023 cohort @NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU). Over the next six weeks, these students will work with @UMDCBCB faculty to explore metagenomics, machine learning, single-cell RNA sequencing, parallel computing, phylogenomics, and more.

[UMIACS @umiacs]

On World Turtle Day, we're happy to report that @UofMaryland's beloved Testudo is an integral part of our research team! Check it out as he plays chess with one of our robots (AI and computer vision) and poses in our HoloCamera studio (VR, AR, and much more) #TestudoKnowsScience

[𝕐 @nomad421]

An updated preprint that benchmarks construction w/the new ggcat-based scheme mentioned below https://t.co/1FlG9QALc7. It's interesting how the time breaks down based on dataset. Even more exciting developments coming soon! cc @giulio_pibiri @jasonnfan @PratapNoor @scarecrow00007

[CBCB at UMD @UMDCBCB]

This breakthrough #pangenome research is exciting. We're particularly proud some of the researchers involved were at one time either Ph.D. students or research scientists @UMDCBCB. Excellent work @sergekoren, Nathan Olson, Justin Wagner, @aphillippy, Daniela Puiu & Alexey Zimin!

[𝕐 @nomad421]

Very excited about this new work with @jasonnfan, @scarecrow00007, @PratapNoor and @giulio_pibiri — https://t.co/X60caZ3Zqi! Here, we describe "Fulgor", a very efficient "color-only" k-mer index. Fulgor can index 150k salmonella genomes in <71GB, and provides rapid lookup! 1/6

[UMD Research @UMDResearch]

Computational biologists at @umiacs are partnering with @HopkinsMedicine's Wilmer Eye Institute to improve therapeutic options for people suffering from chronic ocular diseases.

Read more: https://t.co/piWWYQCaZw

[Nature Communications @NatureComms]

.@HenryHsueh2 @ReneeTiChou @LauraEnsignPhD & co apply #ML to engineer peptides with high melanin binding, high cell-penetration & low cytotoxicity @CNMHopkins @UMDCBCB @HopkinsMedicine @HopkinsEngineer @UofMaryland

https://t.co/5CdFdZw22d

#BiotechNatureComms

[RECOMB Conference Series @RECOMBconf]

Videos from @recombccb2023 are now available in our @YouTube channel. We are waiting for permissions from a few more authors to release videos and we will update the list as we receive them. https://t.co/O9Yb7GxHMg

[Adam Phillippy @aphillippy]

So happy to share this honor with @sergekoren and @ArangRhie. I've been working with Serge for 12 years, Arang for 6, and every single day has been a joy. Team up with wonderful people and you'll go far. Thanks to @genome_gov for supporting us! 🌟

[CBCB at UMD @UMDCBCB]

Michael Cummings (left) and Renee Ti Chou (right) are partnering with the Wilmer Eye Institute @HopkinsMedicine to improve therapeutic options for patients suffering from chronic eye diseases. Their research was recently published @NatureComms.

Read more: https://t.co/fLBU4FbwsF

[UMD Science @UMDscience]

Our college is proud to share that 11 of our graduate programs and specialties earned top-25 accolades in @usnews' 2024 Best Graduate Schools lists released today!

Read the full announcement: https://t.co/ue2sO7GChj

[CBCB at UMD @UMDCBCB]

One of the papers—which introduced a method for creating transcript trees using inferential replicate counts—won Best Paper/Talk award @RECOMBconf's satellite conference on biological sequence analysis.

That paper was coauthored by @PratapNoor (right) @mikelove, and @nomad421.

[CBCB at UMD @UMDCBCB]

Our researchers presented 4 papers @RECOMBconf that introduced new methods for improving genome sequencing to better study evolutionary trees, tumors & cancer.

The papers were coauthored by @nomad421, @erinkmolloy & their graduate students.

Learn more: https://t.co/x5ur8D2rml

[RECOMB Conference Series @RECOMBconf]

Coming up: TREE-QMC by Yunheng Han. #RECOMB2023

[RECOMB Conference Series @RECOMBconf]

Next: Spectrum preserving tilings enable sparse and modular reference indexing by Jason Fan.
#RECOMB2023

[𝕐 @nomad421]

Re-upping this nice tweetorial from @jasonnfan about the #RECOMB2023 paper he presented yesterday. We're excited not just about this work, but about some of the avenues for exploration that it opens up — more fun stuff coming soon :)!