If I see one more stupid Rosalind Franklin take I'm going to lose my mind. Thank god for @matthewcobb.bsky.social and @nccomfort.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫

Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

g:Profiler released a new version a couple of weeks ago that uses data from Ensembl 113, so I've updated a few of the plots. It doesn't actually change anything though and we still await Ensembl 115 eagerly! See github.com/iansealy/ens... for all the details.

For anyone who doesn't want to miss their favourite Glastonbury act on iPlayer, I made a quick-and-dirty Firebase app that allows you to select the acts you want to watch from the schedule then download them as an iCal file.

studio--glasto-planner-g2nbd.us-central1.hosted.app

Ensembl have confirmed that the human gene name issue will be fixed in Ensembl 115. Yay!

I've updated this for the recently released Ensembl 114. Things are looking better - there are more genes than ever before annotated to ZFIN IDs, which is great. But there seems to be a major problem still.

GRCz12tu is available on Genbank. This will be one of two genomes that will be considered "reference" genomes, there will also be a GRCz12ab assembly coming. It has entered the NCBI annotation pipeline and will also go into the Ensembl annotation pipeline.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/gen...

Post a movie from the year you turned 18

I think I might have been the only person in the cinema who hadn't seen the trailer and didn't know there was a twist coming.

RealityF1 returns for the 2025 season. The new season is now live and you can sign in and create your team at: realityf1.com

Wish I'd known about www.openhistoricalmap.org when I was reading Jonn Elledge's "A History of the World in 47 Borders" recently. (Recommended.)

I had a great time on @ebi.embl.org ‘s RNAseq course last week.

Would highly recommend it to anyone looking at working with RNAseq data in the future 🧬

It's been great to get our 2025 courses underway over the last few weeks! We've already run two virtual courses, with attendees learning more about #RNAseq and use of #Python for data analysis.

Want to join us in 2026? Take a look at our courses: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/liv...

🧪🧬🖥️ #GeneSky

@lionelhenry.bsky.social and I are so excited to finally announce Air - an extremely fast R code formatter! 🎉

With Air, you'll never need to worry about styling your #rstats code ever again. All you need to do is save, and Air takes care of the rest.

www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/02...

Slight update to this, as g:Profiler have updated to use Ensembl 112 data. The advice stays the same though - we're using Ensembl 109 for #zebrafish analysis. See: github.com/iansealy/ens...

Someone on Mastodon recently posted about issues they've seen with #zebrafish annotation in recent #Ensembl versions, so I wrote down some of what I've noticed.

I'll summarise here, but the TL;DR version is that we are just using Ensembl 109's annotation, including for enrichment analyses.

@ruthmichaelson.com Lovely to see you both today. By the way, this is the .io thing I mentioned as we were leaving: every.to/p/the-disapp...

I had no idea this even existed. There's more info at www.theguardian.com/culture/2018.... Plus en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English... lists other versions.