Genomic data quality, completeness, and standards are critical to inform public health. We are very excited to collaborate with @phaa4ge and NCBI to train data curators across the continent. alan christoffels Simon Harris Mastercard Foundation Gates Foundation

There’s a lot of ‘slapped cheek’ (parvovirus) going through our primary school age children at the moment. Is it just us or is there a national wave going on?

🚨 World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the #mpox outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. To support public health labs, the @PHA4GE PipeViz WG created a living document on key challenges & open-source tools for #mpox analysis. #genomics #publichealth pha4ge.org/resource/bioin…

Today the Africa CDC in collaboration with the INRB Pathogen Genomic Lab - INRB started a regional training for lab experts from 7 countries. The training is focused on #Mpox testing, sequencing, and sharing. Regional collaboration is key for mpox response. #AfricaPGI Placide Mbala

Expanding mpox testing and sequencing should be prioritized and accelerated. We are leveraging and building on #AfriacPGI partnerships, national and regional capacities, collaborations, systems, and networks. #AfricaCDC Gates Foundation Illumina EU HERA Pathogen Genomic Lab - INRB

It’s great to see the Africa CDC PGI and Pathogen Genomic Lab - INRB supporting the regional fight back against mpox. Such an inspiring, collaborative network.

I have written up some new notes in the intermediate programming course on parallel programming, which are available here: iprogramming.bacpop.org/parallel.html The main intro and advanced examples are in rust, but I've also added two independent sections covering python and R.

📢 We're excited to introduce Pathoplexus, a specialized sequence database for human viral pathogens! 🌍 🧬 Launching with 4 viruses, Pathoplexus.org combines modern open-source software with transparent governance to improve global pathogen sequence sharing. 1/14

Great pleasure to work with Wei Shen 沈 伟 on a new indexing and alignment scheme, called LexicMap: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… We have been working on uniformly reassembling, QC-ing and annotating all bacterial (+ now archaeal) data, & wanted to be able to do full alignment to it....

Sensitive and modular amplicon sequencing of Plasmodium falciparum diversity and resistance for research and public health - exellent work by Bryan Greenhouse Andrés Aranda-Díaz and team 👏 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Join us for Asia PGI's 3rd webinar. Anita Suresh will be presenting on the use of NGS in TB diagnostics with Anita Suresh FIND Those interested do join :-) #NGS #AsiaPGI #pathogengenomics

We are running a massive online open course on AMR databases starting end of the month. Its completely free, study at your own pace and its ~15 hours overall over the 3 weeks (although you can finish any time in a year). Please spread in your networks! …erences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/event/antimicr…

Check out our latest blog from Dr. Inês Mendes and Dr. Bryan A. Wee, members of the Public Health Alliance for Genomic Epidemiology Public Health Alliance for Genomic Epidemiology . They show how ‘bad data’ can be made more valuable by tagging them with information about their potential issues. microb.io/3Xrg9kH

📢 We want to hear from you! Help us improve the PHA4GE website by sharing your feedback through a quick survey. Your input will shape the future of pha4ge.org. 🌐 👉forms.gle/xv2HaHbXgdLxJu… #PHA4GE #PublicHealth #GenomicEpidemiology #CommunityFeedback

It’s really nice to have been invited to join the work on this innovative extension to SKA. Other potentially exciting additions also in the pipeline.

It's happening again! The next Analysing Genomic Data course (#AMGD25) in bioinformatically brilliant Birmingham is available birmingham.ac.uk/postgraduate/c… College of Medicine and Health (UoB) UoB School of Infection, Inflammation & Immunology IMIBirmingham 5 days, hands-on, 17th March 25, beginners welcome

I am pleased to announce the establishment of an African Bioinformatics Institute thanks to funding from Wellcome Trust and CZI. We seek stakeholder input to shape the ABI to meet the needs of the bioinformatics and user communities. Join us for engagement sessions to contribute.

SKA is no longer just a preprint! Thanks to John Lees, Romain and Johanna especially for taking it on, making it better and getting it published!

🎉 Congratulations to the PHA4GE team led by Nicki Tiffin on their recent publication in BMJ Global Health Their paper introduces seven clear principles for responsible secondary use of microbial data🌍 gh.bmj.com/content/9/10/e… #PublicHealth #MicrobialData #DataSharing #PHA4GE

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