Rob Syme

@robsyme.bsky.social

Scientist of sorts. Australian, living in Quebec, working for a Spanish startup. Interested in crop genomics, data, reproducibility, provenance, and data publishing. Big Nextflow fan.

⚙️ Kicked off a @nextflow.io pipeline, stepped away for 15 mins, and came back to find it stuck exactly where you left it? AWS Batch is powerful for scaling bioinformatics workflows, but when something breaks, the failure modes aren't always obvious. 🧵 hubs.la/Q04qHkL80

Debugging Misconfigured Nextflow Jobs on AWS Batch | Seqera

If you've ever kicked off a Nextflow pipeline, stepped away for fifteen minutes, and come back to find your jobs exactly where you’ve left them, this blog post is for you.

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The @nextflow.io training is in full swing in Durham, North Carolina!🌟 Excited to have you all here Missed out? Next week we're hosting our final Nextflow Training Week of 2025!🎓 Free, online, and self-paced. Plus a chance to earn a completion certificate! 📃 hubs.la/Q03T1Qpb0

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Was brainstorming with my partner on an abstract for an upcoming (legal) conference. I provided Claude with our discussion and two abstract drafts and asked it to turn it into an executable python script. It makes more sense than an executable conversation about legal materiality has any right to!

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This week's recap highlights protein design with RoseTTAFold, surveillance with wastewater sequencing, T2T human genomes, Vitessce for visualization of multimodal spatial single-cell data, and Taxometer for taxonomic classification of metagenomics contigs... blog.stephenturner.us/p/weekly-rec... 🧬🖥️

Weekly Recap (Oct 2024, part 4)

Protein design with RoseTTAFold, wastewater sequencing T2T human genomes, single-cell spatial transcriptomics, taxonomic classification, ...

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I'm thrilled to share that our department, UMD CS, is hiring. We are looking for folks broadly across all areas (including bioinformatics / comp bio!) and ranks! Please feel free to reach out if you're interested. Posting below: ejobs.umd.edu/postings/124...

Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor

The Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA is recruiting to fill multiple tenure-track faculty positions, with starting dates on or after July 1, 2025. The...

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