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Sam Wilkinson

@biowilko

Bioinformatician, CLIMB-TRE dev, CLIMB-COVID admin. Likes food, movies, music, and writing code. He/Him.

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The traditional sign Spring has started in Birmingham. @pathogenomenick.bsky.social and his group are having pizzas outside

04.03.2026 13:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 15 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
An image of a birthday cake with scientific doodles around it, 9 colourful candles, and the Pathoplexus logo in the middle, with the words 'Happy 1 year'

An image of a birthday cake with scientific doodles around it, 9 colourful candles, and the Pathoplexus logo in the middle, with the words 'Happy 1 year'

๐Ÿ—“ Pathoplexus turns ONE! ๐ŸŽ‚๐ŸŽ‰

In the past year weโ€™ve grown from 4 pathogens to a truly global, community-driven platform for transparent, equitable & impactful pathogen sequence sharing.
๐Ÿ“ฐ Read the full update: pathoplexus.org/news/2025-08...

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27.08.2025 15:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 38 ๐Ÿ” 20 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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Ambitious project to develop low-cost genome sequencing for pathogens known and unknown - University of Birmingham Project will build on research that helped diagnostic labs to adopt sequencing capacity for COVID-19 and permit characterisation of future infectious threats

Absolutely thrilled to announce the launch of ARTIC2 - a ยฃ5.5M 5 year project funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social to build on the ARTIC approach of low-cost, globally accessible genome sequencing for surveillance of outbreaks, epidemics and endemic diseases: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/am...

22.05.2025 10:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 229 ๐Ÿ” 80 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7 ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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UKHSA launches new metagenomic surveillance for health security The UK launches mSCAPE, a world-first metagenomics initiative by UKHSA to enhance health security through rapid pathogen detection and surveillance.

It's great to see the proper announcement of something we have been working on for so long!
@pathogenomenick.bsky.social @meerac.bsky.social @rmcolq.bsky.social @arambaut.bsky.social and many others ๐Ÿ˜

30.01.2025 17:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 17 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sometimes you see absolute lunatics saying bizarre things and that's fun

14.01.2025 11:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Don't know who to follow for the best in microbial bioinformatics?

This is the Starter Pack you need!

bsky.app/starter-pack...

13.01.2025 03:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 27 ๐Ÿ” 13 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Right let's try that again: Amyl and the Sniffers are fucking outstanding. Just outstanding.

13.01.2025 14:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 175 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 18 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Fieldbioinformatics Updates > Fieldbioinformatics updated to 1.6.0 Fieldbioinformatics has been the first line recommendation by the artic network for generation of consensus sequences from Nanopore viral amplicon sequencing d...

I've written a quick post about the recent changes to the @articnetwork.bsky.social fieldbioinformatics pipeline

virological.org/t/fieldbioin...

13.01.2025 10:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 17 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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ARTIC #mpox resources! Guides to setup #sequencing #bioinformatics and #analysis

artic.network/mpxv/resources

#wellcometrust #nanopore #illumina
#molecularepidemiology #pathogen #pathogensurviellance #bioinformatics #epidemiology #virus #outbreak #clinicalvirology

27.08.2024 13:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 6 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The COVID inquiry is getting SPICY, domcum burning everything down because they scorned him is too fun

31.10.2023 12:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The discrepancy between the party isn't as large as one would hope either, more than a third of democrats believing that demons exist explains a lot about US politics.

31.10.2023 08:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0