Páll Melsted
@pmelsted.bsky.social
Professor @hi.is in CS, head of rna seq data analysis at decode genetics (views are mine). Bioinformatician, epistemic trespasser, &c. ps. I hate GTF files
𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 / 𝗔𝗹𝗴𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 I am currently recruiting for both: 🔹 Postdoc position su.varbi.com/what:job/job... 🔹 PhD position su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Please share with anyone who might be interested!
Postdoktor i Beräkningsbiologi
Matematiska institutionen består av cirka 120 forskare, lärare och administrativ personal och är organiserad i tre huvudsakliga avdelningar: Matematik, Matematisk statistik och Beräkningsmatematik
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Excited to share this preprint that describes my latest work on using GPUs to accelerate processing of RNA-seq data. The title says it all: "RNA-seq analysis in seconds using GPUs" now on biorxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... and github github.com/pachterlab/k... Figure 1 shows they key result
2015: growing almonds consumes too much energy and water 2026: growing kids consumes too much energy and eater bsky.app/profile/x2y....
X2Y@x2y.tech · 6mo agoSAM ALTMAN: “People talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model … But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart.”
14yo: I need a niche music recommendation Me: how about Godspeed You! Black Emperor, let’s find it *not found on Spotify* Me: That’s how nice they are
Today I found out that the Pacbio tools for working with barcodes and adapters in Kinnex are called lima and skera. To whomever came up with that joke, I salute you, you’ve reached 50% of the audience
All right, I posed this question to my PhD student this morning and he looked at me funny and asked if it was a trick question What is the running time of this code a, b = 0, 1 for _ in range(2, n+1): a, b = b, a + b return b
Today I fixed a humming converter and an intercom receiver set from the 70’s. I’m surprised at how good ChatGPT is at diagnosing problems and coming up with fixes for hardware that is older than me. Since I didn’t have to replace the units I can justify the cost and environmental impact of AI
The Genome Informatics conference (@ Cold Spring Harbor Lab, Nov 5 - 8) abstract deadline is **today**. We welcome your submissions! Topics include: - PanGenomes - Genome Assembly & Seq. Algos. - Algorithmic Evo. Bio - Single Cell & Spatial Omics - Microbial Genomics - AI/ML & Integrative Omics 🙏🙏🙏
It is by the juice of coffee that thoughts acquire speed …
Job alert: Join us for a postdoc in AI in genetics at @EMBL Heidelberg! Great collaboration with @Adrian Cortes @GSK, aiming to develop new tools to elucidate genetic effects using population-scale cohorts and single-cell readouts. Please share! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/de-DE/EMBL/d...
Postdoctoral Researcher in Computational Genetics
The research group of Oliver Stegle looks for a postdoctoral researcher to join a collaborative project with GSK with the goal to apply computational methods to investigate the effects of rare variant...
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I misread that as “message” which would have been more impressive 🚩
Jonathan Eisen@phylogenomics.bsky.social · last yr.
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Epistemic failure of epistemic failure
Earlier this year I came across this interesting post by mathematician Daniel Litt, where he pondered how many intrinsically true results in mathematics have been published with erroneous proofs: D…
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I have an opportunity to hire a staff scientist for my lab. Looking for someone with outstanding skillset in ML/statistics, genomics applications; interest in mentoring, strong publication record, PD experience required. Email CV to me+cc my assistant (see 'contact' on my website). Ad to follow.
In Iceland spring is not something you define as season based on weather but more from the arrival of migratory birds
My favorite brainrot is an account on TikTok that solves complicated integrals on a blackboard with colored chalk.
There is something refreshingly honest about moving the goalpost this blatantly. Adjusting for multiple testing? Not in my house ☝️
Join our lab to study transcriptional regulation in mouse germ cells and embryonic stem cells at @haskoliislands.bsky.social in beautiful Reykjavík! Apply here: tinyurl.com/34y6jcrd #epigenetics #TranscriptionFactors #transcriptomics #stemCells #pluripotency
Today I gave a lecture in a brand new lecture hall where the projector was acting weird. Turned out that the control panel showed green for when the projector was off, you had to press the button wait 10 seconds and then it turned red. I think this should be a case study in UI design
I might need to replicate this paper www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Periodic cooking of eggs - Communications Engineering
Emilia Di Lorenzo and colleagues propose an approach to address the energy transport problem of cooking the albumen and yolk of a boiled egg at their optimal temperatures without separation. By altern...
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Somehow I would be more confident that the Tesla could drive autonomously if the auto mode on the windshield wipers worked.
Productivity tip: set your phone to do not disturb, close all messaging software and email apps on your laptop, put on your headphones and Koyaanisqatsi on repeat. Don’t forget coffee.
Let’s see if this bsky thing works. I have a 4K monitor at home and I want to connect a Mac mini and a Mac laptop to the monitor and external keyboard/mouse. Any recommendations on a KVM setup or favorite keyboard & mouse?
Today I almost obsessed over a piece of code that turns out took 7.6 seconds to run. Writing the code to measure the time took half a second, I just wrote a comment and cursor filled in the rest and I hit tab. Prior to AI I would have spent half an hour reading docs or stack overflow
