Experienced software architect / standards expert? Want to make the world a better place by enabling responsible genomics and other health data sharing? This job, Chief Standards Officer of @GA4GH is for you: embl.de/jobs/searchjob…
(colleagues - please retweet or pop this tweet under the nose of people who you think might be interested)
@GA4GH is the global standards organisation to coordinate responsible data sharing between healthcare organisations through to research in genomics (DNA, RNA, Proteomics).
The @GA4GH secretariat is distributed globally; this position is based @emblebi, just south of Cambridge UK. @emblebi is the world's anchor institute for genomics and related datasets in all species, human included. @emblebi is part of @embl, an international treaty organisation
@emblebi is a large community (>750) of data scientists, software engineers and data curators delivering this infrastructure; @GA4GH standards are a key part of making the data work from basic research to healthcare and back again.
@emblebi sits in the @WGCengage Campus in south Cambridgeshire - many people live in Cambridge or one of the Cambridgeshire or North Essex villages. As CSO of @GA4GH you will be based @emblebi but will be interacting both electronically (lots) and physically (somewhat) worldwide.
As @emblebi is part of @embl we will hire the best person worldwide. There is no nationality requirement and we ensure that people not based in the UK can travel to their home country and their life works out in the UK.

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8 Dec
I've recently navigated some COVID19 vaccine conversations with friends and friends of friends and wanted to give my take on why I - and you - should be confident to take them. Structured here as a Q&A:
(Context: I am a human genetics/computational biology expert; I know virus experts and clinical trials experts but I am not one myself; I am a trial participant on one COVID vaccine trial, the Oxford / AZ one).
Is the vaccine really safe? Surely if it has been done so quickly they've cut some corners?
Read 23 tweets
5 Dec
A view of COVID, heading into the Christmas period; ultimately a European, with strong focus on the UK view.
Context: I am an expert at (human/vertebrate) genetics and computational biology; I know experts in infectious disease testing and modelling, clinical trials, immunology. I have a COI in that I am long standing consultant to Oxford Nanopore, which makes a new COVID test.
A reminder: SARS-CoV-2 is coronavirus which jumped from another species late last year into humans; it is reasonably infectious in humans and causes a horrible disease in a subset of humans (older; male; obese) often leading to death.
Read 21 tweets
28 Nov
My perspective on the COVID world, this cold November night in London
Context: I am an expert at genetics + computational biology. I know experts in viral testing, clinical trials, infectious epidemiology, immunology and cell biology of viruses. I have a COI in that I am a long established paid consultant to Oxford Nanopore which makes a COVID test
A reminder. SARS-CoV-2 is an infectious virus which causes a serious disease, COVID19, in a subset of people (more likely in people who are older, male, overweight) often leading to death. If we left the virus to move through the population many people would die quickly.
Read 25 tweets
26 Nov
There are some good and bad hot takes about the Oxford/AZ vaccine going around - I'd like to add my view which I hope is more light than heat.
Context: I am not a clinical trials expert, (rather a computational biologist / genomics expert) and I have an interest because I am trials participant in the Oxford/AZ trial.
The headache in this trial reporting is that a dosing error/operational change made a different dosing regieme which looks more effective. This has complicated analysis, reporting and communication.
Read 20 tweets
26 Nov
Great thread by Adam as ever on transmission risk. I want to highlight what we collectively do around at risk people, mainly people >60 old, in particular >70, obese, male over Christmas.
Adding to transmission levels overall will be bad news but can be buffered elsewhere in the system. Eg regions in Tier 2 might move up to Tier 3. But infections to at risk people run a serious chance of irreversible impact of hospitalisation and very possibly death
(base line numbers >70 is around ~5% chance of dieing if infected; this goes up if you are overweight and if you are male. It is a serious, appreciable chance).
Read 7 tweets
22 Nov
More musings on human genetics and race, but this time from a personal level to explain I think the different ways people "think about" racism and their role in it.
In this thread I am going to be critical about how many people think about broad structural racism/unconscious bias, but I will do this via critiquing my younger self, as it is super-hard to do this broadly without offending people; I can own offending myself :)
In my 20s I spent a fair bit of time in America and considered myself reasonably cool and trendy - worked hard at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, partied hard in NYC and Harvard, where I had friends.
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