Andrea Telatin
@telatin.bsky.social
Head of bioinformatics at the Quadram Institute - https://github.com/telatin/
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Andrea Telatin
@telatin.bsky.social
· Apr 10
Hello binfies 👋!
There is an open position for a senior bioinformatician to join our fab **core bioinformatics** team at @quadraminstitute.bsky.social.
jobs.quadram.ac.uk/Details.asp?...
There is an open position for a senior bioinformatician to join our fab **core bioinformatics** team at @quadraminstitute.bsky.social.
jobs.quadram.ac.uk/Details.asp?...
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Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments:
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments:
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
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⏰ Closing soon! We’re looking for a Research Scientist (Bioinformatics) to join the Laboratory of Dr Kai Cheng in our Food, Microbiome and Health programme
💷 £37,500 to £41,500
🗓️ Apply by 9 November 2025
➡️ buff.ly/DqLnYek
💷 £37,500 to £41,500
🗓️ Apply by 9 November 2025
➡️ buff.ly/DqLnYek
November 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
⏰ Closing soon! We’re looking for a Research Scientist (Bioinformatics) to join the Laboratory of Dr Kai Cheng in our Food, Microbiome and Health programme
💷 £37,500 to £41,500
🗓️ Apply by 9 November 2025
➡️ buff.ly/DqLnYek
💷 £37,500 to £41,500
🗓️ Apply by 9 November 2025
➡️ buff.ly/DqLnYek
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Escherichia coli with a 57-codon genetic code | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Escherichia coli with a 57-codon genetic code
The near-universal genetic code uses 64 codons to encode the 20 canonical amino acids and protein synthesis. Here, we designed and generated Escherichia coli with a 4-megabase synthetic genome in whic...
www.science.org
October 26, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Escherichia coli with a 57-codon genetic code | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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U.S. Biotech Future Is Now Made in China www.realclearworld.com/articles/202...
U.S. Biotech Future Is Now Made in China
This past year, oncologists across the United States faced an agonizing choice: Which cancer patients would receive their full, life-saving chemotherapy regimen and which would face delays or substand
www.realclearworld.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
U.S. Biotech Future Is Now Made in China www.realclearworld.com/articles/202...
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From genotype to phenotype with 1,086 near telomere-to-telomere yeast genomes www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/HaploTeam/10...
October 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
From genotype to phenotype with 1,086 near telomere-to-telomere yeast genomes www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/HaploTeam/10...
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"WGS-informed prevention could hypothetically generate net savings of €1.35 million annually if transmission was stopped once a clonal isolate was detected in a second patient."
I think that translates to ~1.5 million US dollars
I think that translates to ~1.5 million US dollars
Estimating the potential economic and health impact of integrated genomic surveillance in a hospital setting
Integrated genomic surveillance, combining whole genome sequencing (WGS) of bacterial isolates with patient movement data, promises improved detection…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:04 PM
"WGS-informed prevention could hypothetically generate net savings of €1.35 million annually if transmission was stopped once a clonal isolate was detected in a second patient."
I think that translates to ~1.5 million US dollars
I think that translates to ~1.5 million US dollars
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🚨🔊 Fully funded PhD!! 🚨🔊
Are you interested in wildlife gut microbiomes? Love birds, fieldwork and bioinformatics? Want to join a collaborative and supportive team? Looking for training to become an independent scientist?
Please apply!
Informal enquiries welcome!
www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...
Are you interested in wildlife gut microbiomes? Love birds, fieldwork and bioinformatics? Want to join a collaborative and supportive team? Looking for training to become an independent scientist?
Please apply!
Informal enquiries welcome!
www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...
October 10, 2025 at 10:16 AM
🚨🔊 Fully funded PhD!! 🚨🔊
Are you interested in wildlife gut microbiomes? Love birds, fieldwork and bioinformatics? Want to join a collaborative and supportive team? Looking for training to become an independent scientist?
Please apply!
Informal enquiries welcome!
www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...
Are you interested in wildlife gut microbiomes? Love birds, fieldwork and bioinformatics? Want to join a collaborative and supportive team? Looking for training to become an independent scientist?
Please apply!
Informal enquiries welcome!
www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...
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Interested in modelling metabolism from food -> gut microbiome -> blood ? 5 days left to apply for a fully funded position to investigate this. 👇👇👇
We want to explore the metabolic interactions among gut bacteria, when the human host eats different foods - maybe this explain partly the Enterosignature structure?
Please do apply for our bioinformatic post to explore this question in metagenomes: jobs.quadram.ac.uk/Details.asp?...
Please do apply for our bioinformatic post to explore this question in metagenomes: jobs.quadram.ac.uk/Details.asp?...
September 25, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Interested in modelling metabolism from food -> gut microbiome -> blood ? 5 days left to apply for a fully funded position to investigate this. 👇👇👇
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New blog post!
metaMDBG (@gaetanbenoit.bsky.social) and Myloasm (@jimshaw.bsky.social) have had recent releases, so I updated the benchmarks from the Autocycler paper:
rrwick.github.io/2025/09/23/a...
Both tools improved considerably! Time to update your conda environments 😄
metaMDBG (@gaetanbenoit.bsky.social) and Myloasm (@jimshaw.bsky.social) have had recent releases, so I updated the benchmarks from the Autocycler paper:
rrwick.github.io/2025/09/23/a...
Both tools improved considerably! Time to update your conda environments 😄
Benchmark update: metaMDBG and Myloasm
a blog for miscellaneous bioinformatics stuff
rrwick.github.io
September 23, 2025 at 1:53 AM
New blog post!
metaMDBG (@gaetanbenoit.bsky.social) and Myloasm (@jimshaw.bsky.social) have had recent releases, so I updated the benchmarks from the Autocycler paper:
rrwick.github.io/2025/09/23/a...
Both tools improved considerably! Time to update your conda environments 😄
metaMDBG (@gaetanbenoit.bsky.social) and Myloasm (@jimshaw.bsky.social) have had recent releases, so I updated the benchmarks from the Autocycler paper:
rrwick.github.io/2025/09/23/a...
Both tools improved considerably! Time to update your conda environments 😄
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If you are UK-based and working on any aspect of microbiomes (human, plant, insect, soil, animal, ...), please do sign up to Microbiome-Net for details of networking, funding and training opportunities.
forms.office.com/pages/respon...
forms.office.com/pages/respon...
September 13, 2025 at 6:31 AM
If you are UK-based and working on any aspect of microbiomes (human, plant, insect, soil, animal, ...), please do sign up to Microbiome-Net for details of networking, funding and training opportunities.
forms.office.com/pages/respon...
forms.office.com/pages/respon...
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Come be our head of bioinformatics at @mrc-lms.bsky.social !
Our bioinformatics team are closely involved with lots of interesting science and we love working with them. Topics inc. development, cancer, metabolism, aging, TEs (my favourite of course 😜) #TEsky lms.mrc.ac.uk/work/vacanci...
Our bioinformatics team are closely involved with lots of interesting science and we love working with them. Topics inc. development, cancer, metabolism, aging, TEs (my favourite of course 😜) #TEsky lms.mrc.ac.uk/work/vacanci...
Head of Bioinformatics - MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences
We are recruiting for a Head of Bioinformatics to lead our Bioinformatics facility
lms.mrc.ac.uk
September 19, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Come be our head of bioinformatics at @mrc-lms.bsky.social !
Our bioinformatics team are closely involved with lots of interesting science and we love working with them. Topics inc. development, cancer, metabolism, aging, TEs (my favourite of course 😜) #TEsky lms.mrc.ac.uk/work/vacanci...
Our bioinformatics team are closely involved with lots of interesting science and we love working with them. Topics inc. development, cancer, metabolism, aging, TEs (my favourite of course 😜) #TEsky lms.mrc.ac.uk/work/vacanci...
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Lib Dems: We have 12x Reform's MPs, can we have the same coverage?
BBC: But Reform has 2x your poll rating. If there were an election tomorrow, they'd be running the country.
Lib Dems: So you're putting their people and policies under scrutiny, right?
BBC:
Lib Dems: Right?
BBC: But Reform has 2x your poll rating. If there were an election tomorrow, they'd be running the country.
Lib Dems: So you're putting their people and policies under scrutiny, right?
BBC:
Lib Dems: Right?
September 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Lib Dems: We have 12x Reform's MPs, can we have the same coverage?
BBC: But Reform has 2x your poll rating. If there were an election tomorrow, they'd be running the country.
Lib Dems: So you're putting their people and policies under scrutiny, right?
BBC:
Lib Dems: Right?
BBC: But Reform has 2x your poll rating. If there were an election tomorrow, they'd be running the country.
Lib Dems: So you're putting their people and policies under scrutiny, right?
BBC:
Lib Dems: Right?
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"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
September 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
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X-Mapper 🦠🧬🧪 - a sequence aligner developed for microbes, now on Bioconda! 🚀
• 11–24× fewer suboptimal alignments (same for human genome)
• 3–579× lower inconsistency
• improves on ~30% of reads aligned to non-target species
github.com/mathjeff/map...
bioconda.github.io/recipes/x-ma...
#microsky
• 11–24× fewer suboptimal alignments (same for human genome)
• 3–579× lower inconsistency
• improves on ~30% of reads aligned to non-target species
github.com/mathjeff/map...
bioconda.github.io/recipes/x-ma...
#microsky
September 15, 2025 at 2:32 AM
X-Mapper 🦠🧬🧪 - a sequence aligner developed for microbes, now on Bioconda! 🚀
• 11–24× fewer suboptimal alignments (same for human genome)
• 3–579× lower inconsistency
• improves on ~30% of reads aligned to non-target species
github.com/mathjeff/map...
bioconda.github.io/recipes/x-ma...
#microsky
• 11–24× fewer suboptimal alignments (same for human genome)
• 3–579× lower inconsistency
• improves on ~30% of reads aligned to non-target species
github.com/mathjeff/map...
bioconda.github.io/recipes/x-ma...
#microsky
Reposted by Andrea Telatin
We want to explore the metabolic interactions among gut bacteria, when the human host eats different foods - maybe this explain partly the Enterosignature structure?
Please do apply for our bioinformatic post to explore this question in metagenomes: jobs.quadram.ac.uk/Details.asp?...
Please do apply for our bioinformatic post to explore this question in metagenomes: jobs.quadram.ac.uk/Details.asp?...
September 13, 2025 at 8:35 AM
We want to explore the metabolic interactions among gut bacteria, when the human host eats different foods - maybe this explain partly the Enterosignature structure?
Please do apply for our bioinformatic post to explore this question in metagenomes: jobs.quadram.ac.uk/Details.asp?...
Please do apply for our bioinformatic post to explore this question in metagenomes: jobs.quadram.ac.uk/Details.asp?...
The AI hype is so wild that we know see charts like this and think that "must have made by AI".
Or are marketing teams worse than AI nowadays?
Or are marketing teams worse than AI nowadays?
August 8, 2025 at 8:15 AM
The AI hype is so wild that we know see charts like this and think that "must have made by AI".
Or are marketing teams worse than AI nowadays?
Or are marketing teams worse than AI nowadays?
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🧪 Just out in Bioinformatics Advances: “Structure-based metabolite function prediction using graph neural networks”
Explore the full study here: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbaf174
Authors include: @alisaadatv.bsky.social, @jannahastings.bsky.social
Explore the full study here: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbaf174
Authors include: @alisaadatv.bsky.social, @jannahastings.bsky.social
August 6, 2025 at 9:30 AM
🧪 Just out in Bioinformatics Advances: “Structure-based metabolite function prediction using graph neural networks”
Explore the full study here: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbaf174
Authors include: @alisaadatv.bsky.social, @jannahastings.bsky.social
Explore the full study here: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbaf174
Authors include: @alisaadatv.bsky.social, @jannahastings.bsky.social
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The right-wing press is going mad over votes at 16 ("a naked attempt to twist democracy in Labour’s favour", an "election-rigging move"...)
Oddly, they said the same 100 years ago when the voting age for women fell from 30 to 21.
Let's revisit the Mail's campaign to"Stop the Flapper Vote Folly"...
Oddly, they said the same 100 years ago when the voting age for women fell from 30 to 21.
Let's revisit the Mail's campaign to"Stop the Flapper Vote Folly"...
July 19, 2025 at 10:35 AM
The right-wing press is going mad over votes at 16 ("a naked attempt to twist democracy in Labour’s favour", an "election-rigging move"...)
Oddly, they said the same 100 years ago when the voting age for women fell from 30 to 21.
Let's revisit the Mail's campaign to"Stop the Flapper Vote Folly"...
Oddly, they said the same 100 years ago when the voting age for women fell from 30 to 21.
Let's revisit the Mail's campaign to"Stop the Flapper Vote Folly"...
Happy Independence Day ⭐️
July 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Happy Independence Day ⭐️
happy Transposon Day @yaasircheema.bsky.social and co :)
🧬🌽 Happy Transposon Day! 🌽🧬
Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025
Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025
June 16, 2025 at 7:29 PM
happy Transposon Day @yaasircheema.bsky.social and co :)
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🆕 Blog! We hear from some of our researchers about their experience of attending the #Biofilms11 conference which brought together experts in biofilms 🦠
➡️ buff.ly/rgQkywB
@dr-bilal-djeghout.bsky.social @jcihorton.bsky.social @hoyuliu.bsky.sociall
➡️ buff.ly/rgQkywB
@dr-bilal-djeghout.bsky.social @jcihorton.bsky.social @hoyuliu.bsky.sociall
May 23, 2025 at 8:16 AM
🆕 Blog! We hear from some of our researchers about their experience of attending the #Biofilms11 conference which brought together experts in biofilms 🦠
➡️ buff.ly/rgQkywB
@dr-bilal-djeghout.bsky.social @jcihorton.bsky.social @hoyuliu.bsky.sociall
➡️ buff.ly/rgQkywB
@dr-bilal-djeghout.bsky.social @jcihorton.bsky.social @hoyuliu.bsky.sociall
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⏰ Closing soon! We’re looking for a Senior Bioinformatics Engineer to join the Core Bioinformatics team and define the bioinformatics support behind the institute’s research into gut health, microbiology and food 🧬
💷 £44,500 to £55,000
🗓️ Apply by 19 May 2025
➡️ buff.ly/qcolF3D
💷 £44,500 to £55,000
🗓️ Apply by 19 May 2025
➡️ buff.ly/qcolF3D
May 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
⏰ Closing soon! We’re looking for a Senior Bioinformatics Engineer to join the Core Bioinformatics team and define the bioinformatics support behind the institute’s research into gut health, microbiology and food 🧬
💷 £44,500 to £55,000
🗓️ Apply by 19 May 2025
➡️ buff.ly/qcolF3D
💷 £44,500 to £55,000
🗓️ Apply by 19 May 2025
➡️ buff.ly/qcolF3D
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DeSciDe: A tool for unbiased literature searching and gene list cu-ration unveils a new role for the acidic patch mutation H2A E92K https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.05.652253v1
May 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
DeSciDe: A tool for unbiased literature searching and gene list cu-ration unveils a new role for the acidic patch mutation H2A E92K https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.05.652253v1
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