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Robert Aboukhalil

@RobAboukhalil

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Co-founder of https://t.co/CtLwJkzyLm Creator of https://t.co/312rJKliGl, https://t.co/JZm4DkvQAu, https://t.co/6j4AXXF0Br

Mountain View, CA
Joined April 2012
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Robert Aboukhalil
4 years
Really excited to unveil an interactive playground for learning bioinformatics command-line tools like bedtools, bowtie2, and samtools (and more to come!) 🧑‍💻 🧬. Thanks to @aaronquinlan, @BenLangmead, and @mike_schatz for feedback and tutorial ideas.
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I always found that my resume doesn't do my experience justice, so a portfolio website can be a great visual way to show hiring managers all the good stuff I want them to see. I turned it into a GitHub template that you can copy for free:
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Robert Aboukhalil
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📢 Excited to share new features on .- Python playground to quickly test code.- Customize how much RAM the command-line can use: 512MB, 1GB, 2GB (previously fixed at 1GB).- Confetti animations when you finish a tutorial 🙃
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Robert Aboukhalil
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🦠 New tutorial on Learn to build phylogenetic trees from viral sequences, going from multiple sequence alignment to tree generation and rooting 🧬 💻.
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Robert Aboukhalil
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Here's what she learned:
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Robert Aboukhalil
16 days
Leaving academia is the path for the vast majority of PhDs, not a backup plan, and not an "alternative career". We spoke with Stanford PhD student Ashley Moses, who interviewed hundreds of PhDs to help demystify the transition into industry.
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Robert Aboukhalil
29 days
We'll be adding more interactive articles over the course of the year, so let me know what's a topic you struggle with.
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Robert Aboukhalil
29 days
Link to the article:
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Robert Aboukhalil
29 days
Excited to announce our first interactive article on about genomic ranges. Move & resize the ranges to see how that affects bedtools operations like merge and intersect in real time!
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Robert Aboukhalil
3 months
We always tell people to create a portfolio to showcase their work. Today, we're releasing a template to get you started: It's for scientists and engineers who want a living resume of projects, work timelines, and blog posts that demonstrate expertise.
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Robert Aboukhalil
4 months
In 2024, had >170,000 tutorial page views! 🥳. The most popular tutorials were:.1. ​Terminal basics.2. ​Genomic intervals with bedtools.3. ​Terminal exercises.4. ​Data exploration with awk.5. ​DNA sequencing QC. Check them out here:
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Robert Aboukhalil
4 months
📢 Our first bioinformatics office hours were a lot of fun, so we will be hosting more of them this year! We will also invite special guests to co-host 👀. Join this Google Group to be notified when the next ones are: (login with Google, then "Join Group")
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Robert Aboukhalil
5 months
RT @ramit: Good evening. I have a huge amount of fraud, waste, and abuse on my iPhone, so I’ve decided to specifically focus on eliminating….
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Robert Aboukhalil
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RT @marianattestad: We are hosting free bioinformatics office hours on Feb 19th at 10am-noon PST. Bring your bioinformatics career or techn….
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Robert Aboukhalil
6 months
🌲 New tutorial on Learn to build phylogenetic trees from closely related genomes using ska2.
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Robert Aboukhalil
6 months
See the talk on YouTube:
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Robert Aboukhalil
6 months
I'm excited to share that my BrowserTech.wasm talk is now online!. I talk about:.1️⃣ Why I don't find WebAssembly useful outside the browser.2️⃣ Why you should not measure the success of WebAssembly by how many developers use it.
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Robert Aboukhalil
6 months
Should you learn R or Python first for bioinformatics? 🤔. Link in the next tweet because Twitter hates links.
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Robert Aboukhalil
7 months
RT @vsbuffalo: Feels like there are huge inefficiencies in the economics of scientific/data analytics software. I get many ideas for great….
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