Living Systems_

Genomics

Learning Genomics and Bioinformatics in 2025

Bioinformatics is growing in the clinical field, and in my job in a clinical microbiology lab, I’m increasingly asked for tips about how to get into bioinformatics or genomic data science. As I recently took the plunge into genomics from my PhD field of small molecular structures and machine learning, as part of …

NGS Bioinformatics Course Day 3: New Luigi helper tool, "real-world" NGS pipelines

It turned out I didn’t have the time and strength to blog every day at the NGS Bioinformatics Intro course, so here comes a wrap up with some random notes and tidbits from the last days, including any concluding remarks! These days we started working on a more realistic NGS pipeline, on analysing re-sequencing …

NGS Bioinformatics Intro Course Day 2

Today was the second day of the introductory course in NGS bioinformatics that I’m taking as part of my PhD studies. For me it started with a substantial oversleep, probably due to a combination of an annoying cold and the ~2 hour commute from south Stockholm to Uppsala and BMC . Thus I missed some really …

NGS Bioinformatics Intro Course Day 1

Just finished day 1 of the introductory course on Bioinformatics for Next generation sequencing data at Scilifelab Uppsala. Attaching a photo from one of the hands-on tutorial sessions, with the tutorial leaders, standing to the right. Today’s content was mostly introductions to the linux commandline in general, …