Andrew Severin
andrewseverin.bsky.social
Andrew Severin
@andrewseverin.bsky.social
Andrew Severin manages the Genome Informatics Facility at Iowa State University. When he is not navigating the world of data and software, Andrew explores his passion for fantasy writing, hiking, ChatGPT and water polo.
For example:

* Prepend folders with numbers 00_rawdata, 01_qc, etc
* title, date, pwd, description, commands, results
* Paired folders on Github with those on HPC cluster
December 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
For example, you shouldn't use a splice-aware RNA-Seq aligner like STAR on reads from a prokaryotic organism. 🧬 🖥️ #PAG33

I think this is why it can be challenging to teach bioinformatics. There is so much knowledge that needs to be taught!

What other examples can you think of?
December 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM