New preprint! I will try to keep this summary lay-friendly. Recently a viral outbreak started in Cyprus with a high number of cats showing clinical signs of feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), and it is estimated that over 8000 cats had died by mid-July.

biorxiv.org/content/10.110… FIP is caused by an infection with a version of feline coronavirus (FCoV). FCoV are common all over the world, and in most instances cause no clinical signs, or just mild diarrhoea. In a small proportion of cases the virus mutates within a cat and triggers FIP.

Updates on plans for outy sequencing #nanoporeconf Outy sequencing accuracy #nanoporeconf

Recently I convinced the institute to let me buy pizza for the campus once a month, not as a moral boosting strategy, but as bait.

Today with the postdoc committee, I hosted the first Pizza Solves Everything event Rather than having seminars on polished, finished projects, I invited people who were stuck and struggling to overcome a research problem to come and do a short presentation explaining their struggles. Importantly no one would be questioned in front of an audience.

Lilo: A pipeline to stitch together tiled amplicons from Nanopore sequencing data.

github.com/amandawarr/Lilo But Amanda, that pipeline already exists.

Yes, I know that, me, but the genomes I spend my days arguing with have specific features that make them incompatible with the @NetworkArtic pipeline.