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Follow the VGL on our mission to assemble high quality reference genomes for all vertebrate species; guaranteed memes en route 🧬 @RockefellerUniv @genomeark

New York, NY
Joined January 2021
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Vertebrate Genome Lab (VGL)
4 years
Sequencing wizards, fearless assemblers, nosey neighbors, and dancers…we are the #genomewarriors! It’s all fun and games until someone throws their computer out the window. #seasonpremier #staytuned #vhs #90saesthetic #flashbackfriday #genomics
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Vertebrate Genome Lab (VGL)
2 years
Skelly’s birthday was Monday and we forgot. Observe: apologetic ice cream cake.
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Vertebrate Genome Lab (VGL)
3 years
Re-uping for the last day of voting! We are in tight with a few other projects. If you love (or moderately enjoy) free, accessible, and high-quality genomic data, please consider taking 30 seconds to vote so we can continue to develop our GenomeArk database!.
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Vertebrate Genome Lab (VGL)
3 years
Twitter-verse, please take a moment to vote for us in this DataWorks challenge - the money will go towards support our repository of freely-accessible genome sequencing and assembly data! Look for the GenomeArk submission: 🧬🐳🐅🐦
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Vertebrate Genome Lab (VGL)
3 years
If you're at @NanoporeConf today, go visit our warriors @niveshjain1 and @tilley_tatiana to find out more about our use of UL-ONT for vertebrate genomics!.
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Nivesh
3 years
Come see our poster today @NanoporeConf .@tilley_tatiana @genomewarriors
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Vertebrate Genome Lab (VGL)
3 years
Twitter-verse, please take a moment to vote for us in this DataWorks challenge - the money will go towards support our repository of freely-accessible genome sequencing and assembly data! Look for the GenomeArk submission: 🧬🐳🐅🐦
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Vertebrate Genome Lab (VGL)
3 years
evolution: "what if I just 🤪"
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Vertebrate Genome Lab (VGL)
3 years
A very spooky costume as far as the VGL is concerned! (mild amphibian slander)
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Vertebrate Genome Lab (VGL)
3 years
Fantastic work by several Genome Warriors (@giulio_formenti , @erichjarvis , @ofedrigo ) and collaborators!.
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Olivier Fedrigo
3 years
A nice paper led by our group just came out in Nature. Proud and humbled to be part of this work.
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Vertebrate Genome Lab (VGL)
3 years
RT @mazzonijc: Last day of #BG22! Today major genomic projects will give their updates and future perspectives 🧬 Join us to learn more and….
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Vertebrate Genome Lab (VGL)
3 years
RT @TAKosch: I just received the most chunk of data from @genomewarriors. The very first Southern Corroboree frog genome!!!! Getting this g….
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Vertebrate Genome Lab (VGL)
3 years
Or should I say warriors 👀.
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Vertebrate Genome Lab (VGL)
3 years
Successful day of whale watching at the VGL, look at this MASSIVE @nanopore read from our gharial sample! Our wet-lab team is stacked with rockstars. #genome.
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Vertebrate Genome Lab (VGL)
3 years
A fantastic effort from both past and present VGL scientists, and all others involved!.
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Phillip Morin (he/him)
3 years
Congrats to @biohollis and the VGP Sample Preservation group on a really informative paper. @genomewarriors, @genomeark, @jackie_mcastle, @erichjarvis, @ofedrigo.
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Vertebrate Genome Lab (VGL)
3 years
RT @giulio_formenti: The paper describing our assembly graph evaluation and manipulation tool gfastats is out in .@OUPBioinfo: https://t.co….
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Vertebrate Genome Lab (VGL)
3 years
Hey genome friends! The VGL, along with our colleague Jo from the @SangerToL, is hosting a zoom workshop on genome curation and submission to NCBI/ENA next Tuesday! If you're interested in attending or have any questions, please send an email to gformenti@rockefeller.edu🧬🧬
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Vertebrate Genome Lab (VGL)
3 years
"Whale" 🐳 watching on our first UL-ONT run! @nanopore . #genomics #ultralong #sequencing
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Vertebrate Genome Lab (VGL)
3 years
Reaching new sequencing heights with PromethION from @nanopore 🧬🧬. #ONT #longreads #genomics @Monolina_Binny @tilley_tatiana @niveshjain1
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Vertebrate Genome Lab (VGL)
3 years
RESEARCH ASSISTANT OPENING! The VGL is looking for a research assistant with NGS experience - If you love genomics and fun labs, this might be the job for you! Or like and share to help us find our next lab member :) DM for info! 🧬🧬 . #NGS #genomics.
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Vertebrate Genome Lab (VGL)
3 years
Fun fact: The VGP (Vertebrate Genomes Project) has assembled the genomes of 47 vulnerable, endangered and critically endangered species. Genomics for conservation! . #genome #endangeredspecies #conservation #IUCN
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Vertebrate Genome Lab (VGL)
3 years
RT @schumacherbj: CRISPR is amazing
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