Patrick Driguez

Our preprint for a complete workflow for plant genome assembly is out

A great pleasure for me and Angel Angelov (github.com/angelovangel) giving guest lectures for @Mo_Li_KAUST's Introduction to Nanopore Sequencing course @nanopore @KAUSTBCL @kaust_corelabs

A great event coming up next week at #KAUST organised by @KAUSTBCL and @nanopore

Exodus of young life scientists is shaking up academia “The tipping point is coming” statnews.com/2022/11/10/tip…

Very proud to be involved with this project!

I feel like i've unlocked a science achievement by getting our work featured on @IFLScience . ✅🥳

Installed a Sequel IIe next to our Sequel II! Lots of high quality long reads coming up! @PACBIO @KAUSTBCL @KaustResearch @kaust_corelabs

At the Bioscience Core Lab booth at #cbrccobf2022 Metagenomics Conference #KAUST

My friends, a new MEGATHREAD has arrived! In 40 tweets I’ll explain 40 useful concepts you should know. Reading time: ~7 minutes. Value: potentially a lifetime! Thread:

Welcome to our newest Center leader, Dr Francesca Short. Fran is interested in the regulatory networks that govern virulence and antimicrobial resistance in gram-negative pathogens & molecular mechanisms of antimicrobial biocides. Fran is helping drive our OneHealth agenda!

@SaudiMOH937 can i book an appointment for the covid vaccine in the Jeddah district please?

At the upcoming @NanoporeConf community meetings I will present a new, @nanopore only lettuce reference genome. Highly contiguous and highly accurate. nanoporetech.com/resource-centr…

The genome sequence of the Australian filarial nematode, Cercopithifilaria.... McCann K et al., published by @WellcomeOpenRes, wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/6-259… A nice outcome from a side project, a long long time ago in the @lab_grant at @PAM_latrobe . Very happy for @Kirsty_m_McCann 🙌

Looking forward to run these brand new @nanopore R10.4 cells @KeyGeneInfo Our aim is to increase accuracy further using trained models and increase the number of duplex reads. Q20+ #ngs #longreads #crops #breeding

Excited to see our paper out, and much improved from the pre-print version - we find that the “real job” of AmvA, a disinfectant resistance efflux pump from A. baumannii, is transport of polyamine metabolites. nature.com/articles/s4200…

gggenomes - an R package for comparative genomics, which extends the ggplot2 by adding dedicated plot functions for genes, syntenic regions, and verbs to manipulate the plot. github.com/thackl/gggenom… #rstats #genomics #DataVisualization #ggplot2

Less than one week left (closes 19th September) to apply for the postdoctoral researcher position in my group to develop and lead single-cell genomics for helminth parasites. Will suit someone with good molecular biology skills with an interest in bioinformatics.

@GenomeBiology @mrdoods @PacBio Our optimized workflow covers sample collection, DNA extraction, library prep, QC & genome assembly. Extras: DNA extraction protocol dx.doi.org/10.17504/proto…; ONT, CLR & HiFi sequencing; HiFi vs high N50 CLR assembly; evaluating 4 HiFi assemblers & loads of stats + supp. info 2/2

@GenomeBiology @mrdoods Our LeafGo workflow has been published. From leaves to high-quality genomes ≥ 7 days. Extracted HMW DNA from 10 different plant species, sequenced and assembled only with @PacBio #hifi #hifiasm➡️ 2 eucalyptus + polyploid peanut genomes (N50 > 36Mb) 1/2

LeafGo: from @patrick_driguez, @mrdoods, Carty, Putra, Ermini & co, a leaf to genome pipeline for taking plant tissue and turning out a genome assembly in about 7 days. The authors have demonstrated it on two species of Eucalyptus, and the peanut genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

I am excited to announce I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to develop and lead single-cell genomics on helminth parasites for the next 3 yrs. Will be a combination of wet and dry lab. Please RT and share! jobs.sanger.ac.uk/vacancy/postdo…

Many thanks to @JohnGilleard , @sturalph and @SebaiEssia for the great photos!