Katy Brown
Postdoc in computational genomics studying RNA viruses at Cambridge. She/Her orcid.org/0000-0002-8400-6922
- I have a new preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... I found this endogenous retrovirus as a PhD student with @rtarlinton.bsky.social back in 2012 - a mere 14 years later we've written it up! This ERV is expressed in guinea pig lymphomas and might explain their high rate of lymphoma/leukemia. 💻🧪
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- Proud to have been a part of this! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
- 🦣🧬🦣🤯💥We are pleased to share our new paper about ancient RNA expression profiles from the Woolly Mammoth, now published in Cell @cellpress.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... If you want to know more, read the 🧵 below:
- My paper is out! Uncovering hundreds of exogenous and endogenous RNA viral RdRp sequences amongst uncharacterised sequences in public protein databases. doi.org/10.1093/ve/v... 💻🧬 1/5 🧵
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- Come to the BOKR session at 2:20 and see Charlotte Tumescheit @schnamo.bsky.social give a super interesting talk about improving prediction of molecular properties by incorporating ontologies. #ISMBECCB2025
- Someone needs to implement an LLM to help select which talks to go to at #ISMBECCB2025
- Come and see me in the ice rink if you want to plot phylogenies in matplotlib! Poster 206. GitHub.com/KatyBrown/plot_phylo #ISMBECCB2025
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- Excited for the ISMB/ECCB conference! I have two posters A520 today about an endogenous and exogenous virus I found in nematodes - and B206 tomorrow about my tool plot_phylo for drawing phylogenies in matplotlib. #ISMBECCB2025
- Is it so much to ask for all my bullet points to be 1. the same size and 2. in a straight line?
- I could do my job in half the time if we just picked a column delimiter and stuck with it and then no-one can use that symbol for anything else. Let's not use * to both delimit columns and represent a stop codon, or use a random number of spaces, or put "_" in our sequence IDs. 🖥️🧪
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- Are you interested in using AI to decode RNA? Have a look at this brilliant new review from my friend @schnamo.bsky.social and her colleagues.
- Just a reminder to please fill out this form if you’d be interest in an EVE / ERV meeting 📋🥳
- I'm thinking of organising a meeting on endogenous viral elements (RNA, DNA and retroviral) - if you'd potentially be interested, please fill out the form here - forms.gle/wrCiWMw4yXZe... - so I can gauge interest. Please RT or share with anyone maybe interested! 🧪🧬🖥️🦠 #virology #bioinformatics
- Reposted by Katy BrownNIH funding supporting the HMMER and Infernal software projects has been terminated. NIH states that our work, as well as all other federally funded research at Harvard, is of no benefit to the US.
- I'm thinking of organising a meeting on endogenous viral elements (RNA, DNA and retroviral) - if you'd potentially be interested, please fill out the form here - forms.gle/wrCiWMw4yXZe... - so I can gauge interest. Please RT or share with anyone maybe interested! 🧪🧬🖥️🦠 #virology #bioinformatics
- I'm thinking of organising a meeting on endogenous viral elements (RNA, DNA and retroviral) - if you'd potentially be interested, please fill out the form here - forms.gle/wrCiWMw4yXZe... - so I can gauge interest. Please RT or share with anyone maybe interested! 🧪🧬🖥️🦠 #virology #bioinformatics
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- Excited for #RdRpSummit2025 and #ViBioM2025! Just starting off now in Lisbon.
- Reposted by Katy BrownHere we go! The #RdRpSummit2025 is live! @ingrida.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Katy BrownVisit our posters at #RECOMB2025 for: Structural: MSAs, Virus DB, Core Genes, Motif Discovery, Multimer Clustering & Search, pLM Foldseek, Environmental analysis Metagenomics: Classification & Metabuli App GPU-based & RNA search, Proteome clustering, Novel Ribozyme discovery & get Marv stickers!
- I've never related to a plant more.
- Reposted by Katy BrownIt's also the day for my favorite meme! If this aging Klingon warrior can get it right, so can anyone.
- Just finishing something for a paper I was planning to submit in 2013.
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- Reposted by Katy BrownThe abstract submission & registration for #RdRpSummit2025 is NOW OPEN!!! 🎉🙌 Do you work on RNA virus discovery using RdRps? Are you joining the #ViBioM2025 in Portugal? Consider submitting your research in one of our sessions! More info: RdRp.io
- Reposted by Katy BrownThe number of people surprised by the long list of words NSF is targeting makes me think many of you all have not seen this: www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...
- My tool plot_phylo is now available through @pyopensci! Used to plot a phylogenetic tree using matplotlib functionality, so mpl can be used for additional annotation. Very smooth and helpful process with lots of useful feedback. www.pyopensci.org/python-packa... github.com/KatyBrown/pl... 🧪🧬🖥️
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- Is anyone going or has been before to the "Festival of Genomics" at the ExCeL #FOG2025? Is it fun? Should I go? 🧪
- My crocheted Christmas wares, UK Christmas dinner themed tree decorations, for my MIL to sell at her church Christmas fair on Saturday www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/st-giles-c...
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- This is really cool, maybe someone (someone patient i.e. not me) should do the same for RNA viruses 🤔🕷️
- ChatGPT is good at choosing colours and gives you a hilarious description as a bonus. "RdRp is labelled in optimistic gold and other viral genes in an approachable coral".
- Sending out job rejection emails at 1am is a great way to give people a night doubting every aspect of their life.
- Reposted by Katy Brown#PhD Advert: Please share! Are you looking for a PhD studentship in comparative- or population-genomics, using 300+ species of #Drosophila and 1000+ genomes of #melanogaster? #Entomology #Genomics #PopGen #Phylogenetics
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- Reposted by Katy BrownOur Big Fantastic Virus Database (BFVD) is now published NAR! It contains protein structure predictions of major viral clades, enhanced by petabase-scale homology search and it's explorable on the web. 🌐 bfvd.foldseek.com 💾 bfvd.steineggerlab.workers.dev 📄 academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
