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Experienced Bioinformatics Trainer #OpenScience #OpenData #OpenAccess #OpenSource #Bioinformatics

 Oeiras, Portugal
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Joined September 2008
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Blown away that web scraping in R with the rvest package is as easy as:
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Solidarity with Ukraine ✊ (Russian Embassy, London)
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This is actually in a textbook... Retweet if you see it.
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CNAG@cnag_eu9 Dec 2022
📣 #JobAlert #CNAGCRG We have several openings to play a key role in Instand-NGS4P project, the aim is to develop a standardised NGS workflow from data analysis to medical-decision making for common and rare adult and paediatric cancer Apply and join us! cnag.cat/jobs
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Forever more to be known as T-error bars.
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Wait a second, these are not real error bars … the author literally just put the letter “T” above the bar graphs 😭
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Carl Sagan explains how the ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round and calculated its circumference over 2,000 years ago.
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Diving deeper into the proteome. #HumanProteome @naturemethods #TechnologyFeature nature.com/articles/s41592-0…
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🫵🏼¿Quieres ser bioinformática/o?👩🏻‍💻🧬💻 Aún puedes preinscribirte en el "Máster de Bioinformática aplicada a la Medicina Personalizada y la Salud" @SaludISCIII @CNIOStopCancer @BSC_CNS @SEBiot_ ℹ️masterbioinformatica.com/ 📢¡Últimas plazas disponibles! 🎓📚¡Empezamos en Octubre!
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Qué gustamen ver que @biogeocarlos escribe sobre #genes esta maravilla de reseña... 🥰😍
Carlos Lobato (@biogeocarlos) profile pictureCarlos Lobato@biogeocarlos22 Aug 2022
El libro que he leído esta semana es otro de los que tenía en la recámara esperando para leer este verano. Se trata de la obra colectiva Genes, coordinada por @villalbaciencia y publicada por @AlmuzaraLibros. Podéis leer la reseña completa en mi blog: biogeocarlos.blogspot.com/20…
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A graphics toolkit for visualizing genome data. #GenomeData #VisualizationTools @Nature #TechnologyFeature nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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Hey!!! Join us!! We have three open positions in the lab at the Postdoctoral level and specialised technician. 😀 Postdoc1 👉🏻 tinyurl.com/marciuspd1 Postdoc2 👉🏻 tinyurl.com/marciuspd2 SpeTech 👉🏻 tinyurl.com/marciusst All... just apply. Friends ... please retweet 🙏🏻😃
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pfern@pfern2 Jul 2022
From mass spectra to peptide lists and abundances. Watch our upcoming training course PDA22 in @TheGTPB about to open @IGCiencia
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pfern@pfern25 Jul 2022
The latest Bioinformatics Training! paper.li/f-1334858808?editio… Thanks to @EBNetUK
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The cell biology of viral infection lab at @IGCiencia is hiring 2 postdocs to study viruses, phase transitions, viral assembly and antiviral therapies. @ERC_Research; @HorizonEU funded project. Deadline August 17th 2022. More info: gulbenkian.pt/ciencia/homepa…
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A gradual introduction to manipulating and visualizing data in R using the `tidyverse` suite of packages. It is appropriate for any beginners wanting to learn elementary data manipulation in R r-bootcamp.netlify.app/
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📢We are hiring!! Would you like to work at @CNIOStopCancer ? Now is your chance to join @BU_CNIO team! 🧬👩🏽‍💻We are looking for a bioinformatician to analyse and interpret cancer multi-omics data. ℹ️Check full info and more details here: bit.ly/3PeWUFc Please spread!!
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¿Tiene la ciencia una deuda con la ciudadanía? @CCHS_CSIC @FCriadoBoado @arrabaldes @JohnWikiData1 @algonhermen @saritaal @BlandeViana @ignasi @felixlozano @henrique_parra @ILIA_CSIC @RedDivulga @acorsin CSICdivulga @Ibercivis @espacios_edusup @elisabeleta espaciosdeeducacionsuperior.…
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El gran Pablo Picasso trabajando en una obra en 1956 xitter.gq/lostinhist0ry/status/1…
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A bit of good news: in a small study, just 18 patients, every single patient was cured (!) of colorectal cancer, thanks to a new immunotherapy drug nytimes.com/2022/06/05/healt…
A Cancer Trial’s Unexpected Result: Remission in Every Patient (Published 2022)

A Cancer Trial’s Unexpected Result: Remission in Every Patient (Published 2022)

The study was small, and experts say it needs to be replicated. But for 18 people with rectal cancer, the outcome led to “happy tears.”

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It's not over, by any means, but the chances of dying from Covid keep declining👍
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