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Fabian Theis @fabiantheis.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Interesting: www.nature.com/articles/d41... - low quality papers linking some seemingly random phenotypes eg in UKBiobank, "flooding" the literature. Exploring all possible combinatorial possibilities of phenotype combinations sounds like a science business model now...

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Low-quality papers based on public health data are flooding the scientific literature

The appearance of thousands of formulaic biomedical studies has been linked to the rise of text-generating AI tools.

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Nav @naveed-ishaque.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Did you ever notice discrepancies in benchmarking of bioinformatics tools? We did too! Setting out to benchmark spatial clustering methods, we encountered major reproducibility issues in previous benchmarks and questionable "ground truths". More in our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Beyond benchmarking: an expert-guided consensus approach to spatially aware clustering

Spatial omics technologies have revolutionized the study of tissue architecture and cellular heterogeneity by integrating molecular profiles with spatial localization. In spatially resolved transcript...

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Stegle Lab @steglelab.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

📢 Announcing the MOPITAS Autumn School on Spatial Transcriptomics Data Analysis – taking place November 12–14, in Munich. Don't miss this excellent opportunity to deepen your expertise in data science and multi-OMICS analysis - especially as a PhD student in the data science community.

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