luc blassel

We're excited to be sharing our work on end-to-end likelihood-free phylogenetic inference using deep learning with Phyloformer 2. Check out the preprint if that interests you: arxiv.org/abs/2510.12976 Or our explanatory thread on bluesky: bsky.app/profile/lblass…

#genomeinformatics2024 starting, Camille Marchet (@CamilleMrcht) gives the first keynote on de Bruin Graphs and applications. Conf program …erences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/wp-content/upl…

Next, Roland Faure (@rfaure2) on a new way to sketch sequences while mostly preserving SNPs, using mapping-friendly reductions from @pashadag, @lucblassel and I (Sina's thread: x.com/sinabooeshaghi…)

Today we’re excited to freely share an early-version of, perhaps, the world’s most expansive genetics dataset: Logan. #bioinformatics #petabase #genetics #genomics #openscience biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We're finally sharing our work on Phyloformer: a transformer-based approach for likelihood-free phylogenetic reconstruction. Here's a nice thread by @ljacob that recaps it all. If you're curious for more, feel free to read the preprint linked in the thread!

avoid @Hotwire like the plague! I booked a hotel reservation with them over the phone and they wrote down the wrong name! I couldn't check in & it was midnight. I spent 4 hours stranded in a new city going back and forth to hotels & customer service. Still waiting 4 a full refund

@iskander I am also definitely interested if you still have some :) I’m trying to leave this place

Got ~20 more invites, let me know if you need one. My heuristic for who I send them to is I scroll through each person's feed and look for any sign of participation in or engagement with scholarly research of any kind.

Learning about reproducibility in bioinformatics with @fredebibs at #ISMBECCB2023

Our next #LEGO research day will take place in Lille, France, on November 23! The event is part of the @CNRS GDR BIM days. You can contribute an abstract until October 20 at: lego-bim2023.sciencesconf.org. #bioinformatics @ljacob @florajay_ @RaphaelMourad @CRouxEvo

ISMB/ECCB 2023 proceedings are out! academic.oup.com/bioinformatics… Editorial by @YannPonty and @sroyyors #ISMBECCB2023 #ComputationalBiology #Bioinformatics #Conference

📢Job alert📢 You are looking for a post-doc in deep learning for genomics? We are recruiting! euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/99664 #centerofparis @Sorbonne_Univ_ @LCQB_UMR7238 @IBPS_Paris

The construction of large cohorts human pangenome graphs is a challenging task. We selected 5 different state-of-the art tools that generate variation graphs or De Bruijn graphs and used them to construct a human pangenome of 104 high-quality human haplotype assemblies. (1/4)

@NeuroKaiii @AcademicChatter A little late to the party but here's mine if you want to take a look: lucblassel.com

With plenty of colleagues, we are happy to introduce bioconvert, a software to convert bioinformatics files from one format to another. bioconvert currently includes 50 formats and 100 converters.

The Institut Pasteur Bioinfo/Biostats Hub @HubPasteur is recruiting for research engineer positions, including one focused on viral genomics data analysis ! hub-jobs2023.pasteur.cloud

MSRs are a cheap way to get more accurate mappings for @nanopore data. So read the whole story at: doi.org/10.1016/j.isci… and let us know what you think! 9/9

On repeated regions of the #T2T CHM13 reference, MSRs still improve mapping performance compared to HPC or raw. On centromere-like references though, it is better to not preprocess reads at all, even with HPC. 8/9

Can we do better than homopolymer compression when mapping long @nanopore reads? If you missed #RECOMBSeq2022, find out by reading our @iScience_CP paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.isci… with @RayanChikhi and @pashadag. 1/9