Chris W Whelan
cwhelan.bsky.social
Chris W Whelan
@cwhelan.bsky.social
Genomics and bioinformatics. Computational Biologist at Broad Institute. Dad. Bostonian.
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If this happens, this policy change will prevent discoveries and will result in our children and grandchildren being sicker and dying sooner
February 7, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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ATTENTION

If you are someone who had an F31-Diversity (or similar) application submitted this cycle, please DM me here, contact me on signal (jeremymberg.78), or email me at jeremymberg@gmail.com.

I will keep all information confidential.

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February 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Today is the FINAL day to submit your bids in our Silent Auction for a Healthy Ocean!

Bidding closes at 8 PM Eastern! Jenna and Sarah will be going LIVE on Instagram at 4 PM to showcase some of the incredible auction items—tune in to catch the action! ow.ly/5vVf50UkggC
December 3, 2024 at 7:03 PM
I put some #rstats code into Claude and told it to optimize it. It totally rewrote it and got a 50x speed up with identical results. …maybe we actually are cooked?
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December 3, 2024 at 9:00 PM
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As part of #gnomAD v4, in collaboration with the Talkowski Lab, we have released 1,199,117 genome SVs and 66,903 rare exome CNVs. These data represent the first gnomAD SV dataset released native to the GRCh38 reference genome. (1/2)
November 2, 2023 at 12:58 PM
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The #gnomAD team is proud to announce the release of gnomAD v4! The v4 dataset includes 730,947 exomes & 76,215 genomes, which is ~5x larger than the v2 & v3 releases combined, & includes nearly 120K indivs of non-European genetic ancestry broad.io/gnomad #ASHG23 (1/11)
November 1, 2023 at 6:35 PM