Sam Strom, PhD FACMG 💪🧬

I am not deleting my account, but I did delete the app from my phone and I don't intent to post or read any Tweets given the current ownership. I'll miss interacting with people on here but I'm not willing to participate in an unmoderated platform. Find me on LinkedIn instead.

@Clipper_Vision Signed up but getting a error in the NBA app.

WE ARE BACK! Did you miss us? 😏

Anyone cares I'm over on threads.net more (username stromulus28). At least they are pretending to moderate.

Hey @VRDesktop, if someone offered you a free swap, would you turn in a Quest Pro for a Quest 3? Not seeing many comparisons out there between these two, obviously the leap from Q2 to Q3 is massive and that is being focused on.

@catgyoung I review and finalize genetic test results, and help the world adopt whole genome sequencing from raw data to patient- and provider-friendly reports. @illumina

You have a STEM PhD but you don’t work in academia. Tell us what you do!

There has been tons of interest how @Illumina's Complete Long Read technology and assay work. Check out this blog post for details. #bioinformatics #longreads #wgs

@VRDesktop Makes 100% sense. I'm surprised it's even that high, considering the cost and how successful Quest 2 has been. Generally VD has worked great for me on Pro.

Didn’t know I was able to share but if you are wondering why Quest Pro specific features are not high priority in Virtual Desktop, it’s because Quest Pro represents only about 2% of the Quest 2 users in my usage statistics.

@VRDesktop @KKSlider0030 Yikes! Hopefully they'll squash this bug soon. Thanks as always for your engagement with the user community. Been enjoying Vertigo 2 lately via VD, so much fun. Can't believe I started my gaming life with a NES light gun, now this 😁

@KKSlider0030 @stromulus It doesn’t fix the issue for everyone.. its a band-aid fix. Meta is looking into it.

If you received update v54 on your Quest and get awful Wi-Fi performance when you move your head, the solution is to factory reset your headset. No I’m not kidding, that’s the only solution.. 🤦🏻‍♂️

@Genomics_Guy Graceland by Paul Simon

What song have you listened to the most times over the course of your life?

I have probably listened to this song more than any other single song during my lifetime. And I still love it! The Clash - The Magnificent Seven (Official Video) youtu.be/WD5N0rTsulQ via @YouTube

@TheHoopCentral Smush Parker

Name the most random NBA Player (past or present) you can think of.

@BrianRWasik @GYamey My two kids are definitely going to get this shot (and be taught why) as soon as they are eligible. So thankful for this life-saving technology!

@LawlessKahlil 1 citizen is now happy? C'mon Sid, gotta give us more of a bonus than that! How is the "cure for cancer" equivalent to "gypsum for 30 turns"??

@lizmizerik @HiMyNameIsGina If you or anyone at a lab is interested in setting this up I have a lead on potential funding but no takers yet on the lab side. Everyone is so busy!

@stromulus @HiMyNameIsGina Agreed!! There’s a steep decline in cost of WGS and some payers are starting to cover it. I think we will get there soon.

Hi #GeneChat, can someone explain this question to me? Thanks in advance!

@lizmizerik @HiMyNameIsGina I think the best test for families and providers is WGS + methylation array. Unfortunately this is not available to patients. Despite having the tools needed to get a high chance of clear diagnosis fast, no lab even offers this because of the economics. Working on it!

@stromulus @HiMyNameIsGina Methylation first. More cost effective and practical given the payer state we are in. Mechanism may be important but quick, cheap dx is a priori.

I will present a poster on Oct 26th at 3pm in #ASHG22 on an application of @illumina Complete Long Read to aid ASO design for treatment of rare AD genetic disorders pathogenic de novo mutation. Many thanks to @n_lorem @ryanjtaft @aligenie and the ICLR team! See U at 2866!

#DRAGEN Multigenome Graph delivers great accuracy in difficult regions of the genome. Poster presented by Cooper from the @illumina DRAGEN team! #ASHG2022

@jon_belyeu I just heard them call your name at the poster printing session 😅 Didn't see you though!

Hello #ASHG22! Check out poster PB2257 to learn how we call copy number in the LPA region with #illumina WGS. I’ll be at the poster between 3-4:45 tomorrow

@jdidion Like any new tool, it's going through some early year growing pains. Overall short read sv detection can be powerful for many important car types.

Sorry but "we in the field" do not call short read sv callers "not good". Instead, we call short reads non-optimal for sv calling. Short read callers actually do really well (vs theoretical max) for precision/recall when taking consensus among multiple, eg Parliament2.