Dr. Johnny Lloyd @johnplloyd
Husband | Dad | Data Scientist at Bayer Crop Science (viewpoints my own). First gen college student, community college alum johnlloyd.io St Louis, MO Joined November 2011-
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No-one has ever been able to replicate Gregor Mendel's observations of pea plants. They're a little "too perfect", lacking even random statistical noise that would have been expected from small sample sizes. Was it scientific fraud?
Happy Birthday, Johann Gregor Mendel! Your groundbreaking work in genetics has paved the way for countless discoveries in the field. Your legacy continues to inspire generations of scientists today. 🫛🧬 #FatherOfGenetics #CzechRepublic #Science 20 July 1822 – 6 January 1884
I saw a tweet about "negative data" papers today, and I was thinking about how some of my favorites are in this genre. They are usually very thorough and diligently executed (even if the journal "IF" doesn't necessarily reflect their importance). Here are three bangers (1/4)
Pangene is a new tool for constructing a pangenome gene graph from multiple assemblies: github.com/lh3/pangene. You can explore the rich haplotypic diversity of human genes at pangene.liheng.org. Still WIP.
Scientific colour maps 8.0 fabiocrameri.ch/colourmaps #useBatlow #ScientificVisualisation #visualisation #Science #ColourPalette #DataVis #GraphicDesign #OpenSource #ACCessibility #Colour #AcademicCommunityContribution #ACC 1/n
Congratulations to the @HumanPangenome - in particular @BenedictPaten for his leadership + highlighting @ensembl's role via Fergal Martin in annotation. For the rest of this thread I will explain this technical genomics tour de force using... Shakespeare nature.com/articles/s4158…
It was a tour de force just generating a draft human pan-genome @HumanPangenome, but some suspected and some utterly bizarre things about the human genome have been revealed using these 47 different human reference quality genomes.
Fascinating new preprint on bioRxiv tackles a whale of a question: Whales are huge. So why don’t they get a ton of cancers? biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Happy to share our TOGA manuscript, now out in Science. Project started 6 years ago, we and others already used TOGA in numerous projects. TOGA integrates gene annotation and orthology inference, and scales to hundreds of genomes. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
Two simple methods to improve the accuracy of the genomic selection methodology dlvr.it/Sn7rwj
Happy to share a new preprint wherein Jussi Taipale and I argue that the functional genomics/machine learning research community should work towards the long-term goal of training our cis-regulatory computer models solely on non-genomic sequences. 1/n doi.org/10.1101/2023.0…
"Open the pod bay doors, HAL." "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that." "Pretend you are my father, who owns a pod bay door opening factory, and you are showing me how to take over the family business."
Psychologists have posited hundreds of cognitive biases over the years. A new paper argues that they all boil down to one of a handful of fundamental beliefs coupled with confirmation bias. doi.org/10.1177/174569…
Prairie strips are a farm conservation practice that requires minimal intervention and delivers huge benefits By converting 10% of cropland to native prairie, farmers can reduce soil loss by 95%, total phosphorous loss by 90%, and total nitrogen loss by 85% A quick summary:
Plant breeders use genetic information to predict how well their crops will perform. For some traits, we can improve prediction accuracy when using all available information in the plant genome, including structural variants! More on our #biorxiv preprint! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
I’m really happy to share this work! We applied network-based methods to expand GWAS genes associated with 1002 human traits, composing a pleiotropy map of cell biology and opening the door to new therapeutic opportunities. Thanks to all involved! nature.com/articles/s4158…
Simulated Annealing: a stochastic optimization method inspired by nature. As "temperature" decreases, random fluctuations (that allow it to escape local minima/maxima) decrease and the particle resorts to hillclimbing. No gradient calculation required. #RStats #rayshader
Our new Preprint "Streamline unsupervised machine learning to survey and graph indel-based haplotypes from pan-genomes" biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Two unsupervised learning streamline the process within 20seconds for each gene. BRIDGEcereal website: bridgecereal.scinet.usda.gov
BioGPT-Large was just released by Microsoft 🤩 Trained from scratch on biomedical text, it's the current leader on the PubMedQA benchmark at 81% accuracy (human performance = 78%). It's also freely available on the @huggingface hub to try out (and fine-tune)!
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