Andrew Warren
@aswarren.bsky.social
computational biology, infectious disease
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"Our calculations suggest that the proposed budgetary cuts to the NIH will create a social cost that is 16 times greater than the savings that the administration is attempting to achieve."
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Cutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe
This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...
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May 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
"Our calculations suggest that the proposed budgetary cuts to the NIH will create a social cost that is 16 times greater than the savings that the administration is attempting to achieve."
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Reposted by Andrew Warren
#H5N1 #birdflu update: There may have been 2 infected pigs on the small farm in Oregon. Tissue testing results from 1 show systemic disease; results pending for the 2nd.
The outbreak was *not* caused by the H5N1 virus circulating in cows; it was from wild birds. www.statnews.com/2024/10/30/h...
The outbreak was *not* caused by the H5N1 virus circulating in cows; it was from wild birds. www.statnews.com/2024/10/30/h...
Bird flu found in a pig in U.S. for the first time, raising concerns about potential risks to humans
H5N1 bird flu virus has been found in a pig in the U.S. for the first time, raising concerns about potential risks to humans.
www.statnews.com
October 30, 2024 at 10:50 PM
#H5N1 #birdflu update: There may have been 2 infected pigs on the small farm in Oregon. Tissue testing results from 1 show systemic disease; results pending for the 2nd.
The outbreak was *not* caused by the H5N1 virus circulating in cows; it was from wild birds. www.statnews.com/2024/10/30/h...
The outbreak was *not* caused by the H5N1 virus circulating in cows; it was from wild birds. www.statnews.com/2024/10/30/h...
Reposted by Andrew Warren
Our metagenome profiler sylph is now published in Nature Biotechnology! (www.nature.com/articles/s41...)
Rapid species-level metagenome profiling and containment estimation with sylph - Nature Biotechnology
The microbial composition of metagenomes is identified in seconds by profiling against large databases.
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October 8, 2024 at 10:29 PM
Our metagenome profiler sylph is now published in Nature Biotechnology! (www.nature.com/articles/s41...)
Reposted by Andrew Warren
"Minmers are a generalization of minimizers that enable unbiased local jaccard estimation" aka MashMap3 with Bryce Kille, @erikg.bsky.social, and @treangen.bsky.social is now accepted in Bioinformatics! Many thanks to the reviewers for their very careful reviews doi.org/10.1093/bioi...
September 12, 2023 at 7:43 PM
"Minmers are a generalization of minimizers that enable unbiased local jaccard estimation" aka MashMap3 with Bryce Kille, @erikg.bsky.social, and @treangen.bsky.social is now accepted in Bioinformatics! Many thanks to the reviewers for their very careful reviews doi.org/10.1093/bioi...