Rhydian Windsor
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Rhydian Windsor
@rwinds.bsky.social
ML Research Scientist at Oxford Nanopore Technologies, mostly working on assembly & variant calling 🧬

Erstwhile physicist and computer vision DPhil @Oxford_VGG 👁️💻

Average chess player and runner.
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Dorado v0.9.5 adds support for Nvidia Blackwell GPUs. Alongside the latest generation, we’ve given Volta & Orin a boost, v5 transformer sup >2X, LSTM hac on Hopper is boosted 20%, dorado correct and polish both receive performance updates, plus a whole bunch more; see..

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Release v0.9.5 · nanoporetech/dorado
[0.9.5] (31 March 2025) This release of Dorado delivers significant performance improvements and broader hardware support: Major speed increase of the v5 SUP basecalling models on Volta (7.0) and ...
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April 1, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Awesome to see the assembly polishing models we've been working on the last couple of months finally out there - we've had some really promising results with these internally so keen to see how others get on with them!
🎄 New Dorado release (v0.9.0) – and it's big!

🚀 Dorado polish command (experimental) for improving draft assemblies – faster & more accurate than Medaka
⚡ Faster modified base calling models
🔧 Usability & accuracy improvements: PolyA, Barcoding, 6mA calling

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Release v0.9.0 · nanoporetech/dorado
[0.9.0] (16 Dec 2024) This major release of Dorado introduces several new features and enhancements. The polish command, currently experimental, is optimised for refining draft assemblies of human ...
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December 17, 2024 at 3:33 PM
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December 11, 2024 at 4:14 PM
Was awesome to go to Boston and talk at NCM2024 about our new models for genome assembly polishing - stay tuned for more on this soon 👀
At @nanoporetech.com, we've used ML to achieve remarkable advancements in basecalling. Now, we're focusing on driving further improvements in consensus and variant calling, enhancing both speed and accuracy. Watch @rwinds.bsky.social update on our progress: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB6D...
Secondary analysis update
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November 24, 2024 at 1:48 PM
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Excited to join the #Nanopore Community on BlueSky.
Follow us for the latest updates and discussions about Oxford Nanopore and Nanopore Community. #WYMM
November 22, 2024 at 5:07 PM