Michael Barton @bioinformatics

Staff bioinformatics engineer @Kariusinc, ex-@Zymergen ex-@jgi. All opinions expressed are those of my ego and not my own. #BLM #YIMBY michaelbarton.me.uk Bay Area, CA Joined March 2008

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Michael Barton @bioinformatics

a year ago

Biden should pick Liz Cheney as his new VP candidate, that way everyone gets to shit their pants hashtag unity or whatever

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Sheng Thao 盛桃 @Sheng_Thao51

a year ago

Great news Oakland soccer fans! @oaklandrootssc & @oaklandsoulsc will play their 2025/26 season at the Oakland Coliseum. The Roots and Soul radiate Oakland pride in the community and every time they step on the pitch. They are a model franchise and the Town’s global ambassadors…

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Acyn @Acyn

2 years ago

Newsom: You mean the last two years, more Floridians going to California than Californians going to Florida? That is going to be fun to fact check.

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Michael Barton @bioinformatics

2 years ago

I just bought a 2lb bag of coffee because it was on offer. I already have plenty of coffee at home. Fifteen years on and I still ship like I’m in grad school

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Michael Barton @bioinformatics

2 years ago

Is NVidia Merlin in the same space as pinecone and faiss? Hear quite a lot about the latter, but not much about the former.

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Michael Barton @bioinformatics

2 years ago

The first blood panel was unremarkable, so [..] the team next used a new type of DNA sequencing to inspect the man's blood on the molecular level. Eventually, finding the bacteria's DNA led them to the diagnosis and treatment of an extremely rare disease. msn.com/en-us/health/m…

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Karius @KariusInc

2 years ago

We are excited to announce our partnership with @eGenesisBio to expand our microbial cell-free DNA sequencing platform to detect pig pathogens. This development aims to accelerate #xenotransplantation for patients in need of organs. hubs.li/Q01K-W4l0 #InfectiousDisease

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Michael Barton @bioinformatics

2 years ago

It's 2023 we have AI assistants that can answer questions about math and physics, while being able to write complex algorithms in seconds yet @AnthemBlueCross's computer system cannot support insurance claims with more than one page

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Michael Barton @bioinformatics

3 years ago

Apparently I’ve been on this thing for 15 years

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Michael Barton @bioinformatics

3 years ago

Really like the minto pyramid for structuring my writing. The further and further along I've gotten in my career, communicating effectively and succintly has become more important. Any document I write now - I try to write this way. untools.co/minto-pyramid

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Michael Barton @bioinformatics

3 years ago

Github Copilot loves suggesting 'GCA_000001405.15' (hg38) as an assembly ID fixture when I'm writing regression tests. I suppose this is the assembly that appears most in the training data. Interestingly the lastest version is 40, rather than 15.

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Michael Barton @bioinformatics

3 years ago

recently flew into SFO and i was the only person in arrivals with flowers in their hair total bullshit

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Michael Barton @bioinformatics

3 years ago

Been using the @freedom app recently. Finding it quite lovely to block everything distracting. Been having brown noise playing too, not sure how effective that part is though 😀 Heard about it on the @hubermanlab podcast.

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GrowEverythingPod @messaginglab

3 years ago

In the latest episode of "Grow Everything," hosts @erumazeez and @karlschmieder are joined by renowned bioscience expert, @PaulFreemont, to discuss the advancements and opportunities in the field of #syntheticbiology and #biotechnology.

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Michael Barton @bioinformatics

3 years ago

One of my favourite OSX-specific bash commands is `trash`. Installed through homebrew, use it where ever I would use `rm`. Puts the arguments in the trash instead of removing them from the filesystem. Saved me a headache a few times.