Prof. Dame Julia Goodfellow, Prof. Mike Sternberg, Prof. Dame Janet Thornton FRS and Prof. Sir Tom Blundell FRS in festive mood at a celebration of 50 Years of Bioinformatics in honour of Janet

Rishi Sunak’s spokesman says the Prime Minister, who wrote off £4.3 billion worth of fraudulent Covid loans as Chancellor, takes fraud against the Government “extremely seriously”

Kate Andrews *again*?! Are you actually kidding?

Right - time to bust out this article again on #BBCQT bias to rightwing think tanks. 👇👇

A reminder that the last time Suella Braverman was sacked, Rishi Sunak rehired her after just six days.

Palantir’s founder Peter Thiel, said the NHS ‘makes people sick’ and that it should embrace privatisation.

He even described the British love of the NHS as “Stockholm Syndrome”, and the whole organisation should be ripped up and started again.

—> northeastbylines.co.uk/the-problem-...

Boris Johnson believed the UK was being "pathetic" about Covid, and should just have "a cold shower" and "let it rip", according to private messages sent by the Cabinet Secretary Simon Case.

Release of DeepVariant v1.6.

Support for haploid regions, chrX/Y.
Workflow for Pangenome FASTQ-to-VCF.
Major DeepTrio improvements for de novo variants.
Models for CompleteGenomics T7, G400
Add NovaSeqX to training data

Release by Kishwar Shafin

github.com/google/deepv...

#TheWeekInTory is back, damn you

1. Britain faces a crisis in health, education, farming, energy, housing, childcare, social care, imports, exports, manufacturing, services, debt, growth and infrastructure, so Rishi Sunak announced his grand plan to slightly alter A-Levels

Today we announce the first release of Severus: a new tool for somatic SV calling for long reads! It's designed for complex (and simple) rearrangements in cancer genomes, but also works well for germline github.com/KolmogorovLa...

Initial release of DeepSomatic, which identifies subclonal variants when given tumor and normal BAM files. Pre-trained models and case studies available for Illumina and PacBio. Development led by Kishwar Shafin which built off a framework by Pi-Chuan Chang.

(github.com/google/deeps...)

If you care about the food (and non-food) that you eat, you may well find this conversation with physician-scientist Chris Can Tulleken of interest. His new, deeply researched book ULTRA-PROCESSED PEOPLE is outstanding

erictopol.substack.com/p/the-scienc...

Really good blog post from Ryan (as always) on latest ONT accuracy rrwick.github.io/2023/10/24/o...

UKHSA and ONS launch new Winter COVID-19 Infection Study, using lateral flow tests

www.gov.uk/government/n...