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Fiona Brinkman

Fiona Brinkman

Microbe-loving bioinformaticist/genomics prof aiming to better control infectious diseases in a sustainable way. Also a Mum and a gamer. tinyurl.com/brinkmanlab
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Next Critical Assessment of Functional Prediction competition initiating. Contact @iddux! #GSAW2013
Next Critical Assessment of Functional Prediction completion initiating. Contact @iddux! #GSAW2013
.@iddux presenting Critical Assessment of Functional Annotation results http://www.nature.com/nmeth... #GSAW2013
Discussion of criteria for a complete microbial genome ensues... #GSAW2013 (input still possible for INSDC developing definition)
Ahhh... learned NCBI "complete" microbial genome, flagged "draft", means its one contig but has N's joining contigs. #GSAW2013 #goodtoknow
NCBI website stat: 4TB goes in every day. 27TB goes out.
Enjoyed people at the Genome Microbial Identifier workshop in Denmark. Real-time WGS analysis of infectious disease outbreaks, here we come!
Innovative new publishing model @thePeerJ released 1st papers today. Keen to use it! http://www.guardian.co.uk/science... https://t.co/MeXU3QD1
Ha. A family member mentioned having Lurgies. Looked it up, wondering what this strange infection was I hadn't heard of. #cooties
The first step is KEY RT @hmason: Peekaboo: Machine Learning Cheat Sheet (for scikit-learn) http://peekaboo-vision.blogspot.de/2013...
RT @BioDataGanache: I LIKE it! RT @hmason Peekaboo: Machine Learning Cheat Sheet (for scikit-learn)http://peekaboo-vision.blogspot.de/2013...
RT @iddux: A large-scale evaluation of computational protein function prediction http://www.nature.com/nmeth...
Re game http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article... @iddux Volunteers in class got a "grant" for successful research ($$ for a drink). #expectmanyfuturevolunteers
Suttle: single stranded DNA only in viruses, so great to isolate for metagenomics of some viruses in sea
Suttle doing single virus genome sequencing, to better characterize genomes hard to piece together from standard metagenomics
Suttle showing latest data from arctic: bacterial phage integrate more into bacterial genomes when its coldest ("they get cosy")
Curtis Suttle, viral diversity researcher extraordinaire from UBC, speaking now at SFU, listing off all his great virosphere stats
Great thing is, regardless of which bioinformaticists get (very competitive) funding, they'll be great funding of bioinformatics in Canada
Like many Canadian bioinformaticists, I'm coming back to life after Genome Canada grant submissions. Best of luck to everyone!
Great, tho bioinfomaticists/CS w strong bio still really needed (+stats!) MT @iddux Career Paths in Bioinformatics http://bytesizebio.net/index...
At #ISMB conference 1st keynote #KN1 Lathrop: Gaasterland + other female faculty great role models for young female bioinformaticists
#ISMB #SS2 Sobral mentions his http://www.pathogenportal.org/ & how we must stop always going to war with our microbial friends (antimicrobials etc)
Our paper out: Computationally predicted (then some lab confirmation) a drug may be repurposed as an anti-infective http://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
Fantastic opening. + got me telling the kids stories re their Scottish heritage, Brit icons, the wars, literature, music - phew! What a trip
Kids even learned from Olympics opening marching why their Dad was taught to never march in step over a bridge http://www.rayfowler.org/2007...
My kids are wearing London2012 shirts - and pumped
Taking our fave sysadmin out for lunch on #sysadminday THANK YOU to all sys admins out there!
Our paper (computational prediction of a drug that may be repurposed as an anti-infective) IS #openaccess http://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
Nobel laureate Harald zur Hausen talks Fri in BC:"Present State of Infectious Causes of Human Cancers and Perspectives" http://www.bccrc.ca/dept...
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