Anthony Beckhouse
antobeck.bsky.social
Anthony Beckhouse
@antobeck.bsky.social
Genomics | Science | Technology | Biotech | Nonsense | All views are my own and not those of my employer- who is not on 🦋 yet.
Particular soft spot for single cell and spatial transcriptomics and genome biology.
Pinned
In Sydney to introduce this little guy and give a preview of what we are doing in the hidden labs of #illumina. #MiSeqi100
One billion cell atlas project from #Illumina and collaborators AstraZeneca, Eli Lily and Merck
#singlecell #perturbseq #PIPseq

www.illumina.com/company/news...
Illumina introduces Billion Cell Atlas to accelerate AI and drug discovery
www.illumina.com
January 17, 2026 at 7:16 AM
Hello Whiskey! 🥃
January 13, 2026 at 8:01 AM
Very happy that Eric Green is joining the team at #illumina

bit.ly/453yCbN
January 8, 2026 at 10:56 PM
1000 MiSeq i100 boxes out in the wild for Illumina
January 6, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Reposted by Anthony Beckhouse
💾 Shovill 1.4.1 has been released!
The best way to de novo assemble microbial genomes from Illumina FASTQ.
Major fixes to the SKESA module, plasmid mode for the Spades module, and more error checking.
#bioinformatiocs #genomics #microbiology
github.com/tseemann/sho...
Releases · tseemann/shovill
⚡♠️ Assemble bacterial isolate genomes from Illumina paired-end reads - tseemann/shovill
github.com
December 13, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Updated version with new figure.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Illumina consteallation early access data.
December 1, 2025 at 4:22 AM
@medrxivpreprint.bsky.social on early access data generated by Baylor College of Medicine scientists with Illumina Constellation Mapped Read Technology. #genomics #VariantCalling #DRAGEN #Constellation bit.ly/48wm3I3
November 25, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Pretty sure that everyone is a spectator on this platform, just waiting for it take off like Twitter did.
November 24, 2025 at 8:39 AM
My work laptop is about to celebrate it's 5th birthday. I'm such a lucky guy. #WhoNeedsUpToDateTechnology?
November 21, 2025 at 7:33 AM
I don't often log onto BlueSky.. but every time I do, this ear worm gets into my head.
November 18, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Koreans love an iced Americano coffee… even when it’s zero degrees C.
November 3, 2025 at 10:54 PM
MoU signed between South African Medical Research Council, Department of Science, Technology & Innovation and Illumina for a comprehensive 110K sample national genomic reference database. Exciting news for Africa and genomics.
www.samrc.ac.za/press-releas...
South Africa Launches Strategic Partnership to Advance National 110K Human Genome Program | SAMRC
The South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) and the Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSTI) have taken another major step toward advancing genomic and precision medicine researc...
www.samrc.ac.za
October 31, 2025 at 2:01 PM
iPhone 17 delivery date pushed from 22nd October to 17th November... What is going on at #Apple? Will it make it to stores before Christmas?
October 22, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Good info presented by Illumina R&D folks at ASHG last week. Isoform detection in single cells pairing Illumina 3' Single Cell RNA library prep and MiSeq i100 600 cycle kits on 50M reads flow cells. NovaSeq X 600 cycle kits not far away either!
#illumina #singlecell #isoforms #SpliceVariants
October 22, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Illumina constellation technology gets a preprint after ASHG. Detecting complex genomic variants in samples that could not be assessed with traditional long reads. #Sedlazeck

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Constellation illuminates rare disease genetics
Despite significant advances in genomic sequencing, the resolution of many rare disease cases is still hindered by variant detection limitations. Short reads struggle in homologous regions, and long r...
www.medrxiv.org
October 21, 2025 at 4:34 AM
MiSeq i100 1000 cycle kits. Shipping week of 20th October. Next week!
This is going to open a lot of applications. Illumina does it again, only short read technology doing 1000 cycles.
#MiSeq #illumina
October 18, 2025 at 9:55 PM
The BEST part about 0% alcohol beer is that after 3 hours of yard work in 28deg C heat… it’s ok to drink at 11am. #peroni
October 18, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Reposted by Anthony Beckhouse
Dr Jingni He, one of our research fellows has been selected for one of Illumina's coveted awards, the 2025 Neurogenomics research award for #multiplesclerosis🏅#neuroscience #genomics Read more - sapac.illumina.com/company/news...
A recent multiomics pilot study unlocks the mystery of MS and pregnancy remission
sapac.illumina.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:57 AM
I was blown away by this promo, everyone loves a bargain! Illumina NextSeq 2000 looking more attractive than ever before. Offer valid until 15th Dec 2025. bit.ly/4nBF2WW
October 2, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Some very impressive numbers coming from Australian Sequencing provider AGRF Ltd. Best 25B flow cell output at over 11Tb on Illumina NovaSeq X.
October 2, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Happy 3rd birthday to the NovaSeq X! Seems like only yesterday illumina launched their fast, high throughput technology. Time sure does fly.
#WholeGenome #sequencing #singlecell #proteomics #multiomics #DRAGEN

www.illumina.com/company/news...
Illumina Unveils Revolutionary NovaSeq X Series to Rapidly Accelerate Genomic Discoveries and Improve Human Health
www.illumina.com
September 28, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I wonder what could possibly happen when the illumina marketing guy and the illumina social media guy meet up for dinner in San Diego?
September 21, 2025 at 4:34 AM
I’ve come to the conclusions that Americans.. Californians? really struggle with my accent. Have to slow right down and annunciate.
September 20, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Reposted by Anthony Beckhouse
Anybody within a reasonable drive of Providence happen to have an Illumina MiniSeq crate or the shipping rails for a NextSeq?
September 19, 2025 at 9:12 PM
My favourite sound in the world is that of Mitchell Starc scattering batters stumps. #cricket #TestCricket #ASMR
August 21, 2025 at 11:22 PM