Richard Wang

Medical genomics research @illumina. Formerly human genetics @UCLA. Tweets are my own.

[Alejandro Montenegro @aemonten]

On this day, in 1961, two articles appeared in Nature announcing the isolation of messenger RNA (mRNA)

https://t.co/G2KdYsPevC

[Illumina @illumina]

@OmicsOmicsBlog getting the low down from the Illumina bioinformatics brains behind the constellation mapped read tech today #ASHG2025. Stay tuned for what he has to share.

[Jingyi Jessica Li (李婧翌) @jsb_ucla]

Another take-home message: population samples (every sample is an individual) are *not* experimental replicates, so the negative binomial distribution may not fit one gene’s expression levels within a condition.

[Richard Wang @RichardTWang]

Logging into a VPN is the modem day equivalent of dialing into a modem pool.

[Richard Wang @RichardTWang]

@pastramimachine Because I live in a cave, this took a sec. also learned a new Dune movie is out.

[Ake Lu @akelu38]

Epigenetic scores for the circulating proteome replicate protein-disease predictions as tools for biomarker discovery https://t.co/USZM3pIY22

[Richard Wang @RichardTWang]

https://t.co/tY8Oh9Kz0U Congrats to Ken Lange!

[Richard Wang @RichardTWang]

@biobenkj Understand errors and their sources. Difference between DNA and RNA, understanding isoforms. Understanding that if computational results don’t line up with biology- it’s the computational part that’s probably wrong.

[Richard Wang @RichardTWang]

@dccc_phd Whoo hoo!!!

[Richard Wang @RichardTWang]

Finally getting around to #ASHG2020 oh wait kids need help with zoom class. Never mind.

[Richard Wang @RichardTWang]

@Caroline_Bartma I met a famous scientist who advocated for going to the library and reading very old print journal articles for ideas.

[Richard Wang @RichardTWang]

My favorite figure from https://t.co/oOCKrSAmVX #duchenne

[Richard Wang @RichardTWang]

@ClementYChow I work in duchenne muscular dystrophy. Happy to share our work using patient registries, improving diagnosis, searching for genetic modifiers.

[Richard Wang @RichardTWang]

Our DMD genotype-phenotype paper in Human Mutation is among the top downloaded articles last year! https://t.co/aJ9wOfvFtB With FlorianBarthelemy @DuchenneReg @ParentProjectMD StanNelson #duchenne #dmd #raredisease #endDuchenne

[Richard Wang @RichardTWang]

This is so sad

[Daily Bruin @dailybruin]

Stan’s Donuts served its last doughnut Thursday.

Owner Stan Berman decided to close his shop after 55 years in light of the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.

https://t.co/gZNC5K8Orh

[Richard Wang @RichardTWang]

@Rick_Pescatore @pedrodammert @RichLesperance are correct. PCR test is proxy for viral load and active infection (symptomatic or not). Antibody test only useful after the fact to show someone had the infection at some point in the past. PCR is diagnostic you want.

[Richard Wang @RichardTWang]

@michael_nielsen I love this but worry that our collective Heath is decided by billionaires

[Richard Wang @RichardTWang]

Virtual happy hour was unexpectedly therapeutic. Highly recommend.

[Richard Wang @RichardTWang]

I don’t see widespread virus testing coming anytime soon to the US. I hope I’m wrong. If it does, HCW and grocery workers are at the front of the queue.

[UCLA_Computational Medicine @CompMedUCLA]

Attention Research Community: Please share links to any available public COVID-19 data with tag #publiccoviddata. @CompMedUCLA will make a list.