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Bioinformatics, computational biology, and data science updates from the field. Occasional posts on programming. blog.stephenturner.us

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Moving from biotech to academia

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2025/08/09

Moving from biotech to academiaI recently wrote a piece about leaving academia for biotech.I left academia for industry in 2019. I spent four years at a consulting firm before joining Colossal Biosciences. This week I’m returning to the University of Virginia School of Data Science as a tenured associate professor and dean of research.The transition from academia to industry can be tricky, but it’s also increasingly common. There are far fewer academic jobs available than there are trainees coming

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10:47

AI in data science education

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2025/01/15

https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/ai-in-data-science-educationSomething a little different for this week’s recap. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the practice of data science education in this era of widely available (and really good!) LLMs for code. I provide some commentary at the top based on my own data science teaching experience, with a deep dive into a few recent papers below. Audio generated with NotebookLM.AI in the CS / data science classroomI was a professor of public health at the

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8:26

The Enlightenment Conservatory

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2024/12/23

https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/enlightenment-conservatoryI had good intentions to give NaNoWriMo a try this year but didn’t get very far. Instead I gave OpenAI’s Creative Writing Coach GPT a try for a (very) short story I had in mind, inspired by my frustration trying to access closed-access research articles for a review article I’m preparing. I found it to be an excellent writing coach with specific advice for refining the role of the curators, expanding the perspective of the cultivators,

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10:52

Weekly Recap (Dec 2024, part 3)

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2024/12/20

https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/weekly-recap-dec-2024-part-3This week’s recap highlights the Evo model for sequence modeling and design, biomedical discovery with AI agents, improving bioinformatics software quality through teamwork, a new tool from Brent Pedersen and Aaron Quinlan (vcfexpress) for filtering and formatting VCFs with Lua expressions, a new paper about the NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog, and a review paper on designing and engineering synthetic genomes.Others that caught my attention include

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12:56

Weekly Recap (Dec 2024, part 2)

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2024/12/13

https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/weekly-recap-dec-2024-part-2This week’s recap highlights a new way to turn Nextflow pipelines into web apps, DRAGEN for fast and accurate variant calling, machine-guided design of cell-type-targeting cis-regulatory elements, a Nextflow pipeline for identifying and classifying protein kinases, a new language model for single cell perturbations that integrates knowledge from literature, GeneCards, etc., and a new method for scalable protein design in a relaxed sequence

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28:07

Weekly Recap (Dec 2024, part 1)

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2024/12/05

https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/weekly-recap-dec-2024-part-1This week’s recap highlights the WorkflowHub registry for computational workflows, building a virtual cell with AI, a review on bioinformatics methods for prioritizing causal genetic variants in candidate regions, a benchmarking study showing deep learning methods are best for variant calling in bacterial nanopore sequencing, and a new ML model from researchers at Genentech for predicting cell-type- and condition-specific gene expression

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16:53

Weekly Recap (Nov 2024, part 3)

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2024/11/22

Full recap: https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/weekly-recap-nov-2024-part-3This week’s recap highlights pangenome graph construction with nf-core/pangenome, building pangenome graphs with PGGB, benchmarking algorithms for single-cell multi-omics prediction and integration, RNA foundation models, and a Nextflow pipeline for characterizing B cell receptor repertoires from non-targeted bulk RNA-seq data.Others that caught my attention include benchmarking generative models for antibody design, improved

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12:22

Inciteful+Zotero to find relevant literature

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2024/10/14

https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/inciteful-zotero-biologpt-semantic-scholarI am in the middle of writing a review / perspectives paper. One that I’m confident will be exciting once we get it published. Some sections of the review cover subject matter at the outer periphery of my expertise. These are areas where I don’t have as strong of a command of the relevant literature as my collaborators do. In my Zotero library I have a collection of a few relevant papers in these areas published by my

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43:17

Illuminate preprints with an AI-generated podcast...

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2024/09/16

Full post at https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/illuminate-preprints-with-an-ai-generated-podcastGoogle has a new experimental tool called Illuminate (illuminate.google.com) that takes a link to a preprint and creates a podcast discussing the paper. When I tested this with a few preprints, the podcasts it generated are about 6-8 minutes long, featuring a male and female voice discussing the key points of the paper in a conversational style.There are some obvious shortcomings. It doesn’t know how to

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Paired Ends Podcast

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2024/09/11

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