Kyle Helzer

Bioinformatics scientist in the Zhao lab @UWHumOnc.
PhD in Cancer Biology from @UWMadison.
@UMich alumnus.
Scientist by day, piano junkie by night.

[Kyle Helzer @kylehelzer]

When you're graduating at 5 but have lab work to do at 4

[Kyle Helzer @kylehelzer]

@glass_heff_full I can relate.

Had some copies of mine printed for committee members and then noticed on the cover page I had written UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSON

Congrats on submitting though!

[Kyle Helzer @kylehelzer]

Me rn after dose #2.
Thank you ribosome, but I would like to not be sore now.

[Kyle Helzer @kylehelzer]

@kimthi1011 @tangming2005 This will also depend on what kind of samples you are working with. If you expect a high amount of contaminating seqs then the assigned % will be lower. I've found that looking at the breakdown of Unassigned reads (Ambiguity, NoFeatures, Unmapped, etc.) is informative too for QC

[Kyle Helzer @kylehelzer]

@kimthi1011 @tangming2005 This is something I have wondered as well. Generally we seem to get meaningful results with assigned reads >50%. Comparing assigned read % across all samples and identifying low % outliers could also be a useful strategy rather than setting a strict cutoff.

[Kyle Helzer @kylehelzer]

@TheStatsMedic Nope, currently editing a scientific manuscript and I thought you would be a great resource to weigh in on some stats nomenclature :)

[Kyle Helzer @kylehelzer]

@TheStatsMedic What is the capitalization rule for reporting test stats? i.e. t-test vs. T-test, t-statistic vs. T-statistic, z-score vs Z-score, etc...? I am seeing both and not sure what is standard.

[Kyle Helzer @kylehelzer]

@tampabayleigh I love that title

[UW Health @UWHealth]

Our first doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine arrived this morning. The first UW Health employees will receive the vaccine this afternoon, following federal and state guidelines to begin vaccinating frontline healthcare workers.

[Kyle Helzer @kylehelzer]

This graph really highlights the importance of keeping up social distancing and mask wearing in (at least) the first two weeks following the first dose of the vaccine. You don't get immunity right away.
Vaccine = blue 🔵
Placebo = red 🔴

[Florian Krammer @florian_krammer]

No words needed. That's what vaccines do.

[Kyle Helzer @kylehelzer]

When your miso actually cites their claims
(Here's the paper: https://t.co/Z7RdRdcTmR)

[Kyle Helzer @kylehelzer]

@JordanBeckerPhD @FiveThirtyEight

[Madison WI Clerk @MadisonWIClerk]

📩Stuffed:✔️
🦭 Sealed: ✔️
📬Stamped: ✔️
📨Delivered: 🔜

This is probably about 5% of the ballots to be sent out in the first batch, going into the mail today. Many more to follow. If you have requested your ballot, check the status at https://t.co/TAYFj0xoX2. #MadisonVotes2020

[Kyle Helzer @kylehelzer]

Live look at UW-Madison telling the students that all their social gatherings are cancelled and that they must severely limit in-person interactions

https://t.co/xekPgJlejB

[Kyle Helzer @kylehelzer]

@AndrewHolding @markowetzlab Haha, here you can have some of mine:

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[Kyle Helzer @kylehelzer]

She truly is the best. Beautiful speech

[Michelle Obama @MichelleObama]

If we want to end the chaos and division—and keep alive the possibility of progress on the issues we hold dear—we’ve got to vote for @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris like our lives depend on it. Register today by texting VOTE to 30330. https://t.co/xPu5o0SYLJ

[Kyle Helzer @kylehelzer]

Damn these recreations of famous paintings are getting too real

[Kyle Helzer @kylehelzer]

Another amazingly salient piece from @edyong209. It's gut-wrenching to see how many things could have been done better. https://t.co/PBdzByLxWL

[The Harvard Crimson @thecrimson]

Breaking: The government has agreed to rescind DHS and ICE rules barring international students attending online universities from staying in the U.S., per a hearing this afternoon in Harvard and MIT's lawsuit against the agencies.

[Sarah Aitken @S_J_Aitken]

We are really excited that our work showing how pervasive lesion segregation shapes cancer genome evolution is published today in @nature.

https://t.co/cDa9enbyJZ

Here’s a #tweetorial to explain our #LesionSegregation findings...

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[Kyle Helzer @kylehelzer]

@AndrewHolding @Kat_Arney @edyong209 @HopeJahren @DrSidMukherjee @Lone_Frank @SideshowAmi @GeneticsUnzip @RebeccaSkloot If she has an interest in chemistry, then I would recommend The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean. It details the stories behind the discoveries of each element on the periodic table