Our postgrad programme in data-driven breeding and genetics aims to inspire the next generation of experts in a range of industries and fields.

Learn to apply technology for food security and sustainable agriculture, with dedicated online support.

Apply now, begin in September: edin.ac/421oy1W

⏰ The next CGDG 💻🧬 seminar will be the 03/12 at 2pm UK Time and we will have the pleasure to host Dr Florence Phocas from INRAe who will talk about *Why and how to include performance of triploid fish in the genetic evaluation of their diploid sibs?*🐟
📩 cgdg@roslin.ed.ac.uk to get the zoom link
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🌊 Interested in shellfish health & food safety? 🦪
Join our EastBIO PhD project at the Roslin Institute!

Explore mussel immunity & Vibrio interactions using genomics, transcriptomics & more 🦪🦠🧫🧬🌊

💡 Includes fieldwork & CASE placement at Cefas
📍 Edinburgh, UK
Apply👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Exciting PhD opportunity to join us at Roslin/Edinburgh and work with the largest whole-genome sequencing dataset in selective breeding. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

First and very happy post on this site:
Guenons are again breaking the rules of biology: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Outstanding work by @axeljensen.bsky.social showing exceptional Y-chromosome introgression in primates!

New weekly recap: Pangenome graph construction with nf-core/pangenome, pangenome graphs, single cell multi-omics, RNA foundation models, Nextflow for B-cell receptor sequencing from nontargeted bulk RNA-seq, ... https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/weekly-recap-nov-2024-part-3 🧬🖥️🧪

Finally! 🎉
Our last paper on the early dynamics of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron outbreak in Scotland is now published in Epidemics!

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ep...

#SARSCoV2 #Omicron #PublicHealth #IDSky #EpiSky

Clair3-RNA: A deep learning-based small variant caller for long-read RNA sequencing data. #LongReadRNAseq #VariantCalling #DeepLearning #Sequencing #Bioinformatics 🧬 🖥️
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...