@jhuclsp.bsky.social posted a video of a talk I gave at JHU in 2000, where I was introduced by the legendary Fred Jelinek, whose work laid the foundation for today's AI language understanding abilities. My talk is a fun look back at where #genomics was 26 years ago: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh-m...
Congratulations Dr. Chao! Although he finished his Ph.D. last August, the official "hooding" ceremony was yesterday, where Ela Pertea and I conferred the hood to Kuan-Hao. @kuanhaochao.bsky.social
Just found this inappropriate ad hominem attack on a recent PNAS paper by David Lipman. @dutchscientist.bsky.social just says it's "bad" without saying why he thinks so, and then erroneously claims Lipman was the handling editor (he wasn't). I read the paper; it's excellent.
I was saddened to learn yesterday that Craig Venter, with whom I published 20 papers in the 90s and 00s, died this week. He was a difficult person, but he transformed genomics by claiming, repeatedly, that we could do things far faster and at greater scale - and he delivered on those claims.
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A surprising finding: nearly all of the bacterial contamination in your grocery store's fresh or frozen chicken originates in a tiny number of breeders, not at the massive chicken breeding farms. We might be able to eliminate these contaminants very cheaply www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
A scary new move against science and towards autocracy: OMB wants to grab the power to approve or cancel any and all federal grants, at the whim of its Director, Russell Vought: stevensalzberg.substack.com/p/a-dangerou...
The new rules proposed by Trump's henchman Russell Vought would destroy US science
Our featured article: Annotating genomes at increased scale and resolution go.nature.com/3RlsRSY by Hyun Joo Ji, Mihaela Pertea & @stevensalzberg.bsky.social @jhu.edu
Congratulations to my colleagues in Biostatistics, @jhubiostat.bsky.social, for once again being ranked #1 in the nation, and to the Bloomberg School of Public Health, @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social, for also being ranked #1: www.usnews.com/best-graduat...
In my latest column, I explain some of my reasons for being deeply skeptical about AI models that claim to understand DNA, genes, and genomes: stevensalzberg.substack.com/p/ai-is-star...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
In this Review, Ji et al. overview how rapidly advancing experimental and computational methods are enabling improved and automated annotation of gene structure and function, providing researchers wit...
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If you ever need lto be convinced by how bad the "Contributed by" track is at @pnas.org ...
Only author: David Lipman, handling editor: David Lipman. Only integrity-free person not embarrassed by such a paper: David Lipman.
Even uses "I did" in the abstract. Shameful.
It is with great sadness that we announce J. Craig Venter has died. 🧪🧬
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La Jolla, California—April 29, 2026—The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) announced that J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., the Institute’s founder, board...
