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Aziz Khan

@khanlab.bio
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computational biologist interested in #generegulation, #cancer #genomics #epigenomics #openscience - khanlab.bio

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Damir Baranasic @da-bar.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
JASPAR 2026 is out 🎉 The new release massively expands the TF motif collections and adds a dedicated DeepLearning collection of motifs learned from deep learning models. Database: jaspar.elixir.no Paper (NAR): doi.org/10.1093/nar/... 🧵1/2
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JASPAR: An open-access database of transcription factor binding profiles
JASPAR is the largest open-access database of curated and non-redundant transcription factor (TF) binding profiles from six different taxonomic groups.
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Aziz Khan @khanlab.bio · 23/03/2025
Ten simple rules for fostering #creativity in #research labs @plos.org by @mrillig.bsky.social journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
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Ten simple rules for fostering creativity in research labs
Research lab groups are hotspots for the education of the next generation of scientists, and making these units work as creatively as possible is essential for solving pressing issues in biology, the ...
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openRxiv @openrxiv.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
openRxiv has arrived! We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences. openrxiv.org/introducing-... #openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv
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Noah F. Greenwald @noahgreenwald.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I’m super excited to share what I’ve been working on for the last (many) years: a spatial + genomic + transcriptomic characterization of how the breast cancer microenvironment evolves through immunotherapy! (1/x) 🧪🧬 🖥️ #AcademicSky #MLSky #ImmunoSky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Temporal and spatial composition of the tumor microenvironment predicts response to immune checkpoint inhibition
Immune checkpoint inhibition (ICI) has fundamentally changed cancer treatment. However, only a minority of patients with metastatic triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) benefit from ICI, and the deter...
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Anshul Kundaje @anshulkundaje.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
We share a lot of our ideas, code, datasets (that we spend years sanitizing) early. Often way before we release preprints. We do this so that others can use, build on, improve & even "beat" our approaches. But I want to say a few things about some simple expectations 1/
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Ana Maria Barral @bioprof.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
🧪 let's see the impact of 🔵 sky for finding expertise! My dept is in ASAP need of somebody with bioinformatics expertise to provide content for several course developments. Work is remote and contract, courses will be online asynch. Courses are for bio and data science majors. Pls spread the word! 🙏
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Aziz Khan @khanlab.bio · 12/01/2025
If you're a JASPAR user, please give feedback!!
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Aziz Khan @khanlab.bio · 12/01/2025
“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.” — Albert Einstein
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Aziz Khan @khanlab.bio · 27/12/2024
Great move by Finland to downgrade Frontiers and MDPI journals, and others should follow retractionwatch.com/2024/12/24/f...
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Finland Publication Forum will downgrade hundreds of Frontiers and MDPI journals
A committee of scholars in Finland has decided to downgrade 271 journals from Frontiers and MDPI in their quality rating system, in a move that may discourage researchers from submitting manuscript…
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Anthony Mathelier @amathelier.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
We want to make JASPAR even better for our users! Please share your experience and ideas to help us enhance the database by taking a quick survey at nettskjema.no/a/467839. Your insights make a difference! Thank you so much for your participation.
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Aziz Khan @khanlab.bio · 04/12/2024
Fun! While we were teaching a live Git/GitHub hands-on class and this happened — www.githubstatus.com/incidents/43...
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Disruption with some GitHub services
GitHub's Status Page - Disruption with some GitHub services.
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Carlos M Herrera @cmhmaliani.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Good news, Altmetric has now started watching BlueSky for mentions of publications. And by the way, provides an easy comparison between this and the old site for a recent preprint of mine which I posted simultaneousl at both. Numbers speak by themselves !
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Aziz Khan @khanlab.bio · 03/12/2024
Just wrapped up the first class of our reproducibility mini-course this term at Stanford! The energy and enthusiasm these ECRs bring to making science reproducible is truly inspiring. Their engagement, curiosity and commitment to rigor in research give me so much hope for the future of science.
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Aziz Khan @khanlab.bio · 27/11/2024
Late but excited to join Bluesky! I’m a computational biologist interested #generegulation #cancergenomics, #openscience, science and health policy. Looking forward to connecting and re-building the community here!!
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