This week’s recap highlights Verkko2 for T2T genome assembly, the GPN-MSA DNA language model trained on multispecies alignments for variant effect prediction that outperforms other methods like CADD, ESM-1b, phyloP, phastCons, nucleotide transformer, and HyenaDNA, fast orthology inference with FastOMA, a foundation model of transcription across cell types, and engineering CRISPR-Cas PAM sites using deep learning.
Dartmoor Wild Boar Sightings: A New Chapter in Guerrilla Rewilding? Wild Boars Spotted in Dartmoor Dartmoor, a scenic and rugged area in the southwest of England, has unexpectedly become the center of attention due to sightings of wild boars. The appearance of these enigmatic creatures has ignited discussions and speculation about the possibility of guerrilla rewilding efforts in the region. What is Guerrilla Rewilding?
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This is an AI podcast featuring two hosts discussing an article by Reda Sadki titled “New Ways to Learn and Lead HPV Vaccination: Bridging Planning and Implementation Gaps.” The conversational format involves the AI hosts taking turns explaining key points and sharing insights about Sadki’s work on HPV vaccination strategies.
Aquilops turned 10 years old in December. For all of that time, I’ve been waiting for Aquilops toys. I mean COME ON people, it’s an adorable little cat-ceratops, the only one of its kind so far in North America, how do we have multiple toys of Kaprosuchus and no Aquilops yet?
For a while now I’ve been exploring ways to navigate through DNA barcodes. Over the years I’ve built various “toys” to explore barcodes, such as Displaying a million DNA barcodes on Google Maps using CouchDB, built a small scale browser using Elastic search that had some succes, and discovered that Postgres can search for DNA sequences and it’s really fast.
En la última entrada sobre ChrysoCollate explicaba cómo reducir la cantidad de notas en el aparato crítico utilizando la configuración de las entradas del aparato crítico. Antes de realizar la selectio de las lecciones, proceso que cubriré en las próximas entradas, en esta entrada describiré una estrategia adicional para reducir el aparato crítico. Los errores son un elemento inescapable en el proceso de copia de textos.
Es gibt Neuigkeiten zum Open Library Badge, einem Qualitätssiegel für Offenheit in Bibliotheken. Seit Februar 2025 ist die Initiative, die im vergangenen Jahr den ENTER-Award in der Kategorie „Kooperation“ erhielt, als Arbeitsgruppe beim Deutschen Bibliotheksverband (dbv) angesiedelt. Die bisher Aktiven sind Teil der Arbeitsgruppe. Weitere Interessierte sind ausdrücklich zur Mitwirkung eingeladen.
The statistics page for the Rogue Scholar science blog archive was relaunched today, as Rogue Scholar reaches the major milestone of 25,000 archived science blog posts later this week, and the work on updating all blog posts to content type blog post and including each of them in a subject area community has been concluded.Blog Posts by Year This page is new and shows the number of blog posts by year.
This article is based on my presentation about HPV vaccination at the 2nd National Conference on Adult Immunization and Allied Medicine of the Indian Society for Adult Immunization (ISAI), Science City, Kolkata, on 15 February 2025. The HPV vaccination implementation challenge The global landscape of HPV vaccination and cervical cancer prevention reveals a mix of progress and persistent challenges.
The Future of the American Scientific Landscape At Bell Labs, Richard Hamming was famous for challenging other researchers with a provocative question: "What are the most important problems in your field?" After listening to their response, he would follow up with, "Why aren't you working on them?" While this question continues to resonate decades later, it carries an implicit privilege – one unique to