Adam Witney
aawitney.bsky.social
Adam Witney
@aawitney.bsky.social
Reader in Bioinformatics. Interested in infectious diseases, bioinformatics and genomics
Reposted by Adam Witney
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?...
April 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Reposted by Adam Witney
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In collaboration with Andrew Lang and Alison Buchan, we just published a review on the complex and sometimes convoluted interactions and evolutionary relationships among bacterial mobile genetic elements.
#phage #plasmid #evolution #bacteria #plasmidbiology #MGE
Interactions and evolutionary relationships among bacterial mobile genetic elements - Nature Reviews Microbiology
In this Review, Lang and colleagues present an overview of the current knowledge landscape regarding mobile genetic elements in bacteria, with a focus on their evolutionary relationships and interacti...
www.nature.com
March 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I use screen for all my remote connections, well worth a look if you aren't using it.
Bioinformaticians: Tired of losing your remote sessions on HPC or cloud VM? Let me introduce you to tools that will save you time: screen, tmux, and mosh. 🧵👇
January 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Reposted by Adam Witney
I'm putting together a Microbial Bioinformatics starter pack to help get everyone connected in our community. Let me know if there are any bluesky users to be added and share so that twitter refugees can tune back in to the fantastic world microbes go.bsky.app/3ezLo7e
January 10, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Reposted by Adam Witney
Really good blog post from Ryan (as always) on latest ONT accuracy rrwick.github.io/2023/10/24/o...
October 25, 2023 at 1:34 PM
Reposted by Adam Witney
Hi! New to BlueSky but I'm the Infection Biology Project Manager at the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) at EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). I work on all things relating to pathogen nucleotide data and metadata standards, plus coordinating dataflow. #HiSciSky #AcademicSky
October 12, 2023 at 1:52 PM
Reposted by Adam Witney
P-DOR, an easy-to-use pipeline to reconstruct bacterial outbreaks using genomics academic.oup.com/bioinformati...
github.com/SteMIDIfacto...
September 13, 2023 at 12:14 PM
St George's annual Jenner day, 20th Sept. Come listen to some great talks by Dr Catrin Moore, Prof Shamez Ladhani, Prof Elaine Bignell, Prof Jon Friedland and the Jenner Lecture from Prof
Keith Klugman sgul.ac.uk/events/jenne...
September 13, 2023 at 1:30 PM
This place looks much more normal... so far!
September 9, 2023 at 8:55 PM