New work on #Cancer variant prioritization using #T2T . It helps & we can overcome variant annotation issues! + An updated somatic SV benchmark for COLO829/COLO829BL across 4 replicates Grch38 +T2T! New preprint: medrxiv.org/content/10.110… Luis Paulin, PhD BCM HGSC Kieran O'Neill etc!

Our 10th Long Read webinar is now under way! Join in now and hear about the latest advancements from Fritz Sedlazeck, Miten Jain, Tychele Turner, Genome in a Bottle, Vanessa Porter, PhD and more! hgsc.bcm.edu/LongReadSeminar

New study: a bacteria that normally lives in the mouth was found in 50% of colon cancers. This is consistent with prior research on the interactions between the microbiome and colon cancer, which is rising among young people. nature.com/articles/s4158….

We'd like to extend a huge congratulations to Dr. Yuka Takemon, PhD (竹門ゆか) of the Marra Lab (Marco Marra) for their successful PhD defence! 🎉👏 @UBCGradSchool @UBCmedicine

Low depth WGS 🧬 harnessing precision medicine in glioblastoma 🧠: this Letter to the Editor in Annals of Oncology reports on the identification of ncogenic extrachromosomal DNA using FFPE samples Imran Noorani @charlesswanton Mischel Lab annalsofoncology.org/article/S0923-…

Budget 2024 increases the value of Tri-agency scholarships & fellowships by up to 90% & adds 1720 new awards. 📈 This sets a new compensation benchmark for Canada's graduate students & postdoctoral scholars. #Budget2024 #SOSBudget2024

Researchers in Canada got most of what they were hoping for in the country’s 2024 federal budget, with a big boost in postgraduate pay and more funding for research and scientific infrastructure go.nature.com/4azQ8Ft

Happy #DNADay! 🧬 This is one of my favourite pieces I made for Scientific American about genome sizes across select species. Was really fun to make this! #science #DNA #genome #infographic #sciart #genomics #genetics #genes

BREAKING NEWS The 2024 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.

One of the most promising areas for the application of AI in medicine is scaling specialty expertise. There simply aren't enough specialist doctors to care for everyone in need. We believe AI can help. As a first step towards that goal, we worked with the amazing Google medical

Cervical cancer mortality in US women younger than 25 years significantly declined between 2016 and 2021, likely due to the widespread adoption of HPV vaccination. ja.ma/4i9ghPC

My final PhD thesis paper can now be found as an accepted manuscript in Genome Research! Using long read sequencing, we found fascinating methylation patterns at HPV integration events that align with fusion transcript production. See here for more! genome.cshlp.org/content/early/…

It is with heartfelt congratulations that we share that Dr. Marco Marra has been appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada. Dr. Marra is recognized for how he “propelled Canada to the forefront of genome research.” Learn more: msl.ubc.ca/dr-marco-marra…

In Focus: Visualizing Cancer Heterogeneity at the Molecular and Cellular Levels: Lessons from Rosetta brnw.ch/21wQhu5 Poulogiannis Lab Owen Sansom 🏳️‍🌈 Cancer Research UK Cancer Grand Challenges AstraZeneca Barts Cancer Institute (Queen Mary) The ICR The Francis Crick Institute CRUK Cambridge Institute Imperial College London CRUK Scotland Inst

SPECIAL ISSUE Part 2! This month Genome Research publishes a diverse collection of articles offering novel biological and clinical insights gained using long-read DNA and RNA sequencing technologies and other long molecule approaches. tinyurl.com/Genome-Res-35-4