Rob Finn

I got the chance to feature on this week’s BBC More or Less podcast with the excellent Tom Colls, talking about how scientists count life on Earth, specifically the microbes. Have a listen: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

Gave my first conference talk at #ISMBECCB2025. Presented *gemsparcl* 💎✨, my PhD tool for clustering millions of genomes into species-level clusters - fast. So grateful to have been selected for a talk and enjoyed connecting with so many great people! Preprint hopefully coming later this summer! ☀️

Did you attend @iscb.bsky.social's #ismbeccb2025 🇬🇧? @ebi.embl.org colleagues (including reps from #Ensembl, @deciphergenomics.bsky.social, @training.ebi.embl.org, @pdbeurope.bsky.social and @expressionatlas.bsky.social) surely did! 🧬 We snapped some pics of @malloryfreeberg.bsky.social in action 🎤

Now we have what I call the big three biomes represented in @mgnifydb.bsky.social, soil, marine and human. We are constantly looking for MAGs to add to our catalogues. Talk to @tgurbich.bsky.social if you have data you want to contribute.

Great to see jackhammer is back! If you have not tried it please give it a go. We would welcome constructive feedback. We are still adding features.

Phill Read presenting RO-Crate in #BOSC2025, we’ve been increasing numbers of papers with associated RO-Crates, and have a summer internship working on it at the moment #ISMBECCB2025

MGnify are at ISMB/ECCB 2025 this week! Catch our talks on Wednesday to learn about our latest services and tools. 👇 #ISMB2025 #ISMBECCB2025

Attended a meeting on AI and biological research at the Alan Turing Institute, convened by the UK Cabinet Office. Interesting discussions on the benefits, risks and challenges. A big challenge for @ebi.embl.org will be delivering data slices, moving it to HPCs and then on to the GPUs efficiently.

Celebrating 25 years of @ensembl.bsky.social - the first announcement from @ewanbirney.bsky.social, milestone 1 was ensembl.org - thanks to all have worked on the resource, and the scientists who use it. Many exciting developments to present pangenomes, capture biodiversity and scale for the future