"AGBT meet your new bioinformatics team" with hand-drawn portraits of Nils Homer and Tim Fennell
@tfenne.bsky.social and @nilshomer.com are on the ground at #AGBT2026 this week.
Big data. Tight timelines. Real decisions.
#Bioinformatics is where complexity becomes something teams can actually use.
If you’re here, let’s connect.
So long Scala, thanks for all the fish.
You have my email... I could be... convinced...
10th Anniversary Core Values blog series: Valuing People
Valuing People is one of our deepest commitments: to ourselves, to our team, and to our clients. Life is messy—just like biology. When life gets complicated, we don’t look away. We step in.
Read More: blog.fulcrumgenomics.com/p/core-value...
@plasmidsaurus.bsky.social next time in Boston for #ASHG25, consider catering with Bagelsaurus!
Ever want a live code review of your #bioinformatics code?
DM me if you’re at #ASHG25 and I’ll take look to give you suggestions on how to improve reproducibility, maintainability, and overall engineering quality.
10th Anniversary Core Values blog series: Openness
Openness is an action. It’s a positive, and proactive, choice to lean-in.
It begins with a simple but powerful question: What do I know that others need to know?
Read more: blog.fulcrumgenomics.com/p/core-value...
I'll be there to prove I'm not an AI. Lets meet up!
@nilshomer.com, Yossi Farjoun, and @tfenne.bsky.social will be attending #ASHG25 in Boston this year on behalf of Fulcrum Genomics. Let us know if you'll be there too!
@nilshomer.com, Yossi Farjoun and I will be attending ASHG in Boston this year on behalf of Fulcrum Genomics. Let us know if you'll be there too!
The Charles river doesn’t have trees… just saying.
Here’s to another ten years working with awesome and talented people on challenging and impactful Bioinformatics problems!
blog.fulcrumgenomics.com/p/ten-years-...
We love working with people who notice how things fit together, who make unwieldy problems work better. The 'Meet the Team' series spotlights humans behind our bioinformatics work. We hope you'll feel like you've met us — or want to. Meet Erin McAuley: blog.fulcrumgenomics.com/p/meet-erin-...
Remember, to be generous also means accepting help to allow others the opportunity to be generous. You cannot give that which you do not have.
Rather than feeling unworthy or like a burden, I choose to be grateful for the time they shared, giving them the chance to be generous and reaffirming my own value.
I regularly volunteer my time meet with folks in the field. Instead, today reached out for guidance and help, and I was met with generosity as someone took the time to meet with me.
Saying no when someone offers to help deprives them of the opportunity to be generous.
My Genetic Data are public: blog.fulcrumgenomics.com/p/my-genetic...
It's a "I don't want to have to write the same thing multiple times across clients" and "here's a look at the quality of code we write" and "community benefit is one of our core values"...
By the power of Grayskull...
blog.fulcrumgenomics.com/p/create-con...
Cunningham’s Law, but making feature requests to get the correct answer. There’s got to be a German word for that.
Half the battle is knowing the right reference to use...
Join us and find out!
We try to be good #bioinformatics community members; check out our recent Open Source work @fulcrumgenomics.com
blog.fulcrumgenomics.com/p/recent-ope...
"As of May 1st 2025, GATK forums will be community-driven and self-moderated. They will not be moderated or monitored by a GATK team member."
See more: gatk.broadinstitute.org/hc/en-us
fgbio in use again!
Who says we can't have OSS #bioinformatics from an commercial organization?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A Python programming snippet that uses pytest, pytest fixtures, advanced use of fixtures, monkey patching the OS environment, type hinting, mocking impure environments, and generators.
Python is a simple language, but using it isn't always easy.
Today I reflected on the following code. To really understand it, one must learn: generators, type hinting, pytest fixtures, advanced usage of fixtures, monkey patching the OS environment, mocking impure environments, generators...
www.harvard.edu/about/divers...
