So for the first time in at least a decade I am installing Windows on a physical machine (yes I know I am also disappointed in myself) and even Win11 still comes on a DVD and I need to type in a CD key to install it... I guess some things never change

(All) good things start with b Beer, bioinformatics, berlandieri

I never thought I'd be adding "hands on experience with Sanger sequencing" to my resume, but here we are.

Nice to do something I have experience with for a change

I am recruiting a molecular technician to join my group at HochschuleGeisenheim (5 years position). Main duties: DNA extraction (soil/plant material) and PCR. hs-geisenheim.de/fileadmin/reda……… Applications deadline: April 10, 2024. For any questions, please dm me. Thank you for sharing.

frontiersin.org/journals/plant… Gabriella De Lorenzis Silvia Toffolatti

Yay, I finally figured out how the daylight saving time switch in our watchtower works! The Geisenheim Grapevine Breeding institute is now back in summer time. Happy Easter everyone!

Our Willem van Rengs Maximilian Schmidt Charlie Underwood CEPLAS article on combination of hifi and nanopore reads for gapless tomato chromsome assemblies showing linkage drag in breeding The Plant Journal is a #TopDownloadedArticle. Check it out here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Okay I guess this is my "this never should have worked" moment but yes ultra-long grapevine #nanopore reads can be done

Public consultation on the draft VCF 4.5 specifications has begun! New features include base modification (methylation) calling and a "local allele" encoding scheme to reduce file size for large-cohort VCF. Please provide feedback at github.com/samtools/hts-s…

Looking forward to presenting at London calling again. This time people probably even know the species I am working on. Saves about two minutes of introduction 😀

Once again enjoyed giving a talk at #nanoporeconf #LC2024 and now looking forward to the technology update to conclude day 1. Thanks Oxford Nanopore

Felt like a good time to redo this

London calling 2024 #nanoporeconf. It's a wrap. Learned some fancy new things about dorado and herro that will keep our cluster busy for a while

I am a bit too lazy to convert q-score into percent accuracy but comparing the "old" #nanopore dorado duplex super model (light blue) to the new one (dark blue) on data from a plant DNA minion run still looks quite impressive

I came to the institute to work on our GPU server and 3D printers and I still was the one with the least fancy equipment since one colleague was working with a hyperspectral photometer and another with a 3D Scanner. What a time to be alive and work in grapevine breeding

Fixing user permission issues on our cluster from my phone while being in a Sorghum field in Groß-Gerau is definitely not a thing I ever expected to do for multiple reasons

Um dem deutschen #Wein eine Zukunft zu geben, setzen Kai Voss-Fels et al. in Geisenheim auf die Struktur der Trauben. Das Ziel: Schädlingen und Klimakrise trotzen. Klappt’s nicht, hat Joachim Mueller-Jung erfahren, droht Klassikern wie dem Riesling eine Identitätskrise faz.net/aktuell/wissen…

Okay, google now believes I am very interested in a Finnish fencing company and night club in Melbourne. Why do bioinformatics tools have such strange names like verkko or yahs?

Dear all, I am offering a 50% technician position in my group. The position has a duration of 4 years, (extension possible). Below, you find the announcement in German, but feel free to contact me for further information! Please share widely! Thanks!! hs-geisenheim.de/fileadmin/reda…