Alistair Miles

@alimanfoo

Malaria scientist at the Wellcome Sanger Institute.

Oxford, England
alimanfoo.github.io
Joined January 2010
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    Jul 12

    Copy number variation is a major driver of insecticide resistance in malaria vectors. Really hope these data on CNVs in the 2,784 mosquitoes sequenced in Ag1000G phase 3 are a useful resource. Please reach out if any questions or there's an analysis you need.

    We're pleased to announce the release of genome-wide copy number variation data from phase 3 of the Anopheles gambiae 1000 Genomes Project (Ag3): Some highlights... 1/6
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    Oct 18

    🌎🌍🌏 This week's Pangeo Showcase is a big one. , , et al. will give us an update on their work on the amazing MS Planetary Computer. This team has strong ties to Pangeo and the FOSS community. I can't wait to learn more!

    Join us Wednesday (10/20) at 12pm ET for this weeks Pangeo Showcase talk by and colleagues from entitled "Scalable Sustainability with the Planetary Computer"
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  3. Oct 1

    "2i2c will build a cloud services model that respects a community’s Right to Replicate their infrastructure by providing transparent and customizable JupyterHub deployments on cloud infrastructure that utilize community-driven open source tools"

    We are excited to launch the next phase of 2i2c's growth via a partnership with . Check out some details about what we'll be up to here:
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    Sep 27

    We’re excited to announce that , , and have been awarded a ROSES grant to support Xarray over the next 3 years!🎉 This critical public support will fund student internships, new tutorials, regular virtual office hours and more! 1/

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    Sep 27

    You see lots of maps on twitter. This one is different. Carbonplan has brought together 's WebGL API with dynamically loaded coming directly from cloud storage. 🤯

    Making interactive scientific data-driven maps on the web? We’ve been working on something that might interest you! (1/4)
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    Sep 22

    Very proud of this huge team effort from our group & many great collaborators to make informative & cheap tools for malaria genomic epi: P.Schwabl et al

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  7. Sep 22

    If you're attending and want to find talks from scientific sessions currently missing from the conference website, you can also go to and search for the talk number, e.g., "ABS-177".

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    Sep 19

    In just over 18 hours, we will be ushering in the 7th edition of the PAMCA Annual Conference & Exhibition. Please register here if you have not yet done so: . Follow this link to the conference platform: .

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    Sep 16

    🙌 Hugely excited to announce the first wave of species to be published as for the project! Thanks to everyone working hard to sequence these . Looking forward to thousands more!🧬 Read every paper as it drops here:

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    Sep 16

    Thoughtful, informative, and inspiring commentary from about the present status of the malaria fight, new opportunities for impact, and an agenda for what needs to be done with urgency, energy, and endurance.

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    Sep 16

    Yesterday I won an award from . 🥳 It feels great to receive this recognition and see all the message of support from colleagues on and off Twitter. I have some complicated feelings about it, which I will share in this thread... /1

    Congrats to 2021 AGU Falkenberg Award winner. Ryan has inspired many of us to embrace - open, inclusive, community-based science. I'm glad to see someone rewarded for their efforts to build communities.
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    Sep 6

    How can we jointly analyse small (SNPs/indels) and large variants in cohorts, including SNPs on very different genetic backgrounds/haplotypes? Very happy to see this paper out, a major output from phd, with great input from 1/n

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    Sep 3

    My first first-author paper is officially published! Huge thanks to my brilliant co-authors, incl.

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    Sep 2

    Simulating genomes? Here's an eclectic thread on the new msprime, with lots of pictures of trees. See and the preprint: - and follow along at

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  15. Aug 27

    Popgen question: sample from a randomly mating population, then find doubleton variants, then count number of shared doubletons between each pair of individuals. What distribution would you expect these counts to follow (and why)?

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    Aug 23
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    Salut ! Great to hear that you enjoyed our free podcast. If you're looking for more advanced learning content now, check out our French crime drama podcast presented by Mark and Pierre-Benoît, called La Vérité éclate toujours:

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    Aug 21

    “I think of science’s mission as opening the black box of nature. It's a bit nonsensical to do that with tools that we are not allowed to open and understand, including proprietary software”-Perez

    As celebrates a 20-year milestone, we spoke with about how it all started and the future of open science Want to learn more about Fernando’s work? Check out and .
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  18. Aug 21

    Just finished season 4 podcast, learned a load. Amazing free educational content, but it's the banter and bad jokes between Mark and Pierre-Benoit that really make it! Ça va me manquer!

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    Aug 20

    🚨 Excited that our new collaborative paper titled “Ten simple rules for organizing a bioinformatics training course in low- and middle-income countries” has been published! This paper was a multi -continent effort! Link:

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    Jul 30

    Presenting the world’s largest data resource on parasite evolution & . analysed the genetic variants in over 7,000 samples of Plasmodium falciparum by bringing together data from 49 studies:

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  21. Jul 28

    If you do forget to rechunk before storing, you can end up with rectangular regions of the destination array written with the fill value, which defaults to zero. This can go unnoticed, especially if your data normally has lots of zeros. Good idea to run checks.

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