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Sam Wilkinson
@biowilko.bsky.social
Bioinformatician, CLIMB-TRE dev, CLIMB-COVID admin. Likes food, movies, music, and writing code.
He/Him.
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🗓 Pathoplexus turns ONE! 🎂🎉

In the past year we’ve grown from 4 pathogens to a truly global, community-driven platform for transparent, equitable & impactful pathogen sequence sharing.
📰 Read the full update: pathoplexus.org/news/2025-08...

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August 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Absolutely thrilled to announce the launch of ARTIC2 - a £5.5M 5 year project funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social to build on the ARTIC approach of low-cost, globally accessible genome sequencing for surveillance of outbreaks, epidemics and endemic diseases: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/am...
Ambitious project to develop low-cost genome sequencing for pathogens known and unknown - University of Birmingham
Project will build on research that helped diagnostic labs to adopt sequencing capacity for COVID-19 and permit characterisation of future infectious threats
www.birmingham.ac.uk
May 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
It's great to see the proper announcement of something we have been working on for so long!
@pathogenomenick.bsky.social @meerac.bsky.social @rmcolq.bsky.social @arambaut.bsky.social and many others 😁
UKHSA launches new metagenomic surveillance for health security
The UK launches mSCAPE, a world-first metagenomics initiative by UKHSA to enhance health security through rapid pathogen detection and surveillance.
www.gov.uk
January 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Don't know who to follow for the best in microbial bioinformatics?

This is the Starter Pack you need!

bsky.app/starter-pack...
January 13, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Right let's try that again: Amyl and the Sniffers are fucking outstanding. Just outstanding.
January 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I've written a quick post about the recent changes to the @articnetwork.bsky.social fieldbioinformatics pipeline

virological.org/t/fieldbioin...
Fieldbioinformatics Updates
> Fieldbioinformatics updated to 1.6.0 Fieldbioinformatics has been the first line recommendation by the artic network for generation of consensus sequences from Nanopore viral amplicon sequencing d...
virological.org
January 13, 2025 at 10:49 AM
The COVID inquiry is getting SPICY, domcum burning everything down because they scorned him is too fun
October 31, 2023 at 12:49 PM