🎃Happy Halloween from Edinburgh Genomics! 🎃 Found something spooky or paranormal in your lab? Send it to us for sequencing! We'll turn that ghost into a genome 👻🧬 #Halloween #sequencing #genome

Did you know that microwaving to burst open cells can be a useful method of DNA extraction, especially for cheap, rapid, and high-throughput workflows? It can be used as a step within the extraction process to improve cell lysis, and also as the main cell lysis process to

Today we're talking about #Kinnex - unlocking the full potential of microbiome research with PacBio #16S #HiFi #Sequencing 🌟 With PacBio Revio and Kinnex we offer groundbreaking 16S rRNA full gene sequencing, advancing microbiome research beyond traditional short-reads

We love this photo of our wonderful EdGe members, Ana and Helen, showing off our lab #Sustainability award from UoE Sustainability! 💚 We're incredibly proud to work toward a #sustainable future and thrilled to see our team’s hard work recognised on this journey! #SustainabilityInScience

Last week, we hosted our amazing Long-Read Bioinformatics course, covering QC, mapping, de novo assembly, structural variation, and methylation. 🧬 We hope you loved it! Missed out? Register for the next session here: genomics.ed.ac.uk/event/introduc… #Bioinformatics #Genomics #longread

My first PhD chapter has been published in PLOS Pathogens! Is incubation period weirdness behind the lack of temporal signal in some rabies virus datasets? (probably not) dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

#AcademicChatter #AcademicX

🚀 Kickstart your coding journey in 2025 with our introductory courses this January! 📅 ✅ R for Biologists ✅ Intro to Python ✅ Linux for Genomics 📍 Perfect for biologists & genomic scientists—boost your research skills! 🔗 Sign up now: genomics.ed.ac.uk/service/traini…

2024 was an incredible year at Edinburgh Genomics! 🎉 Thank you for your support as we pushed boundaries in #sequencing, advanced #bioinformatics, and impactful #training courses. 🎥 Check out our ‘2024 #Wrapped’ video to celebrate with us! Here’s to an even brighter 2025! 🚀

— Franz Kafka, 1912

🎉 Start 2025 with new skills! Join our DNA Library Preparation for Short-Read Sequencing course. 📅 6th Feb 2025 📍 Edinburgh Genomics 🔬 Hands-on lab work, MiSeq demo, and more! Limited spots—register now: genomics.ed.ac.uk/event/dna-libr… #Genomics #DNASequencing #HappyNewYear2025 🎆

Thrilled to have attended the #PairProgramming #EdinburghWinterSchool25! 🐤It was an honour to speak on #Bioinformatics #training for Edinburgh Genomics. Huge thanks to amazing organisers Kasia Banas Dr Pawel Orzechowski Dr. Brittany Blankinship for a stellar event, and to /Fay-lee-nuh/ for an inspiring keynote!

🎓 We just wrapped up another successful R for Biologists! Participants learned R basics, data manipulation, and creating publication-ready plots. 📊 Missed out? Register now for the next session: genomics.ed.ac.uk/event/r-for-bi… #RforBiologists #Bioinformatics

PhDs discussing their progress

Master Variant Analysis! Join our online course (17–20 March 2025) to learn germline & somatic variant calling with the GATK pipeline. Hands-on training with Edinburgh Genomics experts! 📅 17–20 March 2025 | 🖥️ Online | 🔗 Register now: genomics.ed.ac.uk/event/variant-…

📢A super exciting new course covering both lab skills 👩‍🔬 AND bioinformatics 💻- you won't find a course like this anywhere else! Learn full-length 16S sequencing with PacBio! 🧬 📅 April 8-9 (Lab), April 15-16 (Online Bioinformatics) 🔗 Register now: genomics.ed.ac.uk/event/full-len…

What a year

Showing off your first publication to your family