Stephen Turner
@stephenturner.us
Associate Professor of Data Science & asst. Dean of Research at UVA School of Data Science, #Rstats enthusiast, dad, runner, guitar noise-maker. Views my own.
Web: https://stephenturner.us/
Newsletter: https://blog.stephenturner.us
Web: https://stephenturner.us/
Newsletter: https://blog.stephenturner.us
Rapid Derivation of Cloning-Competent Cells from Peripheral Blood Advances Conservation Biobanking www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪 Great work from my former colleagues at Colossal!
November 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Rapid Derivation of Cloning-Competent Cells from Peripheral Blood Advances Conservation Biobanking www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪 Great work from my former colleagues at Colossal!
Cool to see the McIntire School of Commerce at UVA running a Claude for Good Hackathon this weekend
November 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Cool to see the McIntire School of Commerce at UVA running a Claude for Good Hackathon this weekend
Nextpie: a web-based reporting tool and database for reproducible nextflow pipelines academic.oup.com/bioinformati... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/bishwaG/Next...
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Nextpie: a web-based reporting tool and database for reproducible nextflow pipelines academic.oup.com/bioinformati... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/bishwaG/Next...
FGeneBERT: function-driven pre-trained gene language model for metagenomics academic.oup.com/bib/article/... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/jane-pyc/Ope...
November 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
FGeneBERT: function-driven pre-trained gene language model for metagenomics academic.oup.com/bib/article/... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/jane-pyc/Ope...
Multi-agent AI enables evidence-based cell annotation in single-cell transcriptomics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪
Python: github.com/NygenAnalyti...
R: github.com/NygenAnalyti... #Rstats
Python: github.com/NygenAnalyti...
R: github.com/NygenAnalyti... #Rstats
November 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Multi-agent AI enables evidence-based cell annotation in single-cell transcriptomics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪
Python: github.com/NygenAnalyti...
R: github.com/NygenAnalyti... #Rstats
Python: github.com/NygenAnalyti...
R: github.com/NygenAnalyti... #Rstats
DeNoFo: a file format and toolkit for standardized, comparable de novo gene annotation academic.oup.com/bioinformati... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/EDohmen/denofo
November 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
DeNoFo: a file format and toolkit for standardized, comparable de novo gene annotation academic.oup.com/bioinformati... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/EDohmen/denofo
Site-specific DNA insertion into the human genome with engineered recombinases www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧬🖥️🧪
November 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Site-specific DNA insertion into the human genome with engineered recombinases www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧬🖥️🧪
BioWorkflow: Retrieving comprehensive bioinformatics workflows from publications academic.oup.com/bib/article/... 🧬🖥️🧪
November 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
BioWorkflow: Retrieving comprehensive bioinformatics workflows from publications academic.oup.com/bib/article/... 🧬🖥️🧪
I still give this advice routinely for students looking for career advice. Write and learn in public.
One thing I missed in this post is CONSISTENCY.
As with athletic pursuits, people overestimate what you can accomplish in a week and underestimate what you can do in a year. Writing is the same.
One thing I missed in this post is CONSISTENCY.
As with athletic pursuits, people overestimate what you can accomplish in a week and underestimate what you can do in a year. Writing is the same.
November 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I still give this advice routinely for students looking for career advice. Write and learn in public.
One thing I missed in this post is CONSISTENCY.
As with athletic pursuits, people overestimate what you can accomplish in a week and underestimate what you can do in a year. Writing is the same.
One thing I missed in this post is CONSISTENCY.
As with athletic pursuits, people overestimate what you can accomplish in a week and underestimate what you can do in a year. Writing is the same.
Genomics of drug target prioritization for complex diseases www.nature.com/articles/s41... (read free: rdcu.be/eONIF) 🧬🖥️🧪
November 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Genomics of drug target prioritization for complex diseases www.nature.com/articles/s41... (read free: rdcu.be/eONIF) 🧬🖥️🧪
A pre-trained large generative model for translating single-cell transcriptomes to proteomes www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/TencentAILab...
November 6, 2025 at 7:01 PM
A pre-trained large generative model for translating single-cell transcriptomes to proteomes www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/TencentAILab...
November 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Benchmarking of human read removal strategies for viral and microbial metagenomics www.cell.com/cell-reports... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/wtsi-npg/hrr...
November 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Benchmarking of human read removal strategies for viral and microbial metagenomics www.cell.com/cell-reports... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/wtsi-npg/hrr...
De-extinction technology and its application to conservation academic.oup.com/jhered/advan...
November 6, 2025 at 10:11 AM
De-extinction technology and its application to conservation academic.oup.com/jhered/advan...
The fragile intelligence of GPT-5 in medicine www.nature.com/articles/s41... (read free: rdcu.be/eOy8C)
November 6, 2025 at 9:57 AM
The fragile intelligence of GPT-5 in medicine www.nature.com/articles/s41... (read free: rdcu.be/eOy8C)
The Case for De-extinct Antimicrobials pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
...pretty sure a series of dystopian SFF novels starts out with resurrecting an ancient fungus to harvest some compound. If it doesn't exist, someone should write that series.
...pretty sure a series of dystopian SFF novels starts out with resurrecting an ancient fungus to harvest some compound. If it doesn't exist, someone should write that series.
November 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The Case for De-extinct Antimicrobials pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
...pretty sure a series of dystopian SFF novels starts out with resurrecting an ancient fungus to harvest some compound. If it doesn't exist, someone should write that series.
...pretty sure a series of dystopian SFF novels starts out with resurrecting an ancient fungus to harvest some compound. If it doesn't exist, someone should write that series.
Privacy-hardened and hallucination-resistant synthetic data generation with logic-solvers academic.oup.com/bioinformati... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/csiro/genoma...
November 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Privacy-hardened and hallucination-resistant synthetic data generation with logic-solvers academic.oup.com/bioinformati... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/csiro/genoma...
Ten essential tips for robust statistics in cell biology www.nature.com/articles/s41... (read free: rdcu.be/eOl8q) 🧬🖥️🧪 1/3...
November 5, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Ten essential tips for robust statistics in cell biology www.nature.com/articles/s41... (read free: rdcu.be/eOl8q) 🧬🖥️🧪 1/3...
Microbial genomics for antimicrobial resistance ecology and action www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧬🖥️🧪🦠 rdcu.be/eOcFc
November 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Microbial genomics for antimicrobial resistance ecology and action www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧬🖥️🧪🦠 rdcu.be/eOcFc
SPARKI: a tool for the statistical analysis of pathogen identification results academic.oup.com/bioinformati... 🧬🖥️🧪
#Rstats code: github.com/team113sange...
#Nextflow workflow: github.com/team113sange...
#Rstats code: github.com/team113sange...
#Nextflow workflow: github.com/team113sange...
November 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
SPARKI: a tool for the statistical analysis of pathogen identification results academic.oup.com/bioinformati... 🧬🖥️🧪
#Rstats code: github.com/team113sange...
#Nextflow workflow: github.com/team113sange...
#Rstats code: github.com/team113sange...
#Nextflow workflow: github.com/team113sange...
From ORNL: SciTrust 2.0: A Comprehensive Framework for Evaluating Trustworthiness of Large Language Models in Scientific Applications arxiv.org/abs/2510.259... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/herronej/Sci...
November 4, 2025 at 9:49 AM
From ORNL: SciTrust 2.0: A Comprehensive Framework for Evaluating Trustworthiness of Large Language Models in Scientific Applications arxiv.org/abs/2510.259... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/herronej/Sci...
PhD training needs a reboot in an AI world www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧬🖥️🧪
November 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
PhD training needs a reboot in an AI world www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧬🖥️🧪
PathogenSurveillance: an automated pipeline for population genomic analyses and pathogen identification www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Code: github.com/nf-core/path...
Nextflow nf-core pipeline: nf-co.re/pathogensurv...
Code: github.com/nf-core/path...
Nextflow nf-core pipeline: nf-co.re/pathogensurv...
November 2, 2025 at 9:58 PM
PathogenSurveillance: an automated pipeline for population genomic analyses and pathogen identification www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Code: github.com/nf-core/path...
Nextflow nf-core pipeline: nf-co.re/pathogensurv...
Code: github.com/nf-core/path...
Nextflow nf-core pipeline: nf-co.re/pathogensurv...
Between cookie warnings, paywalls, and the new user-hostile in-app browser "experience" on X, there's no point in clicking a link to a paper on mobile @natbiotech.nature.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Between cookie warnings, paywalls, and the new user-hostile in-app browser "experience" on X, there's no point in clicking a link to a paper on mobile @natbiotech.nature.com