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Guillaume Bourque

@guilbourque.bsky.social
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Prof in Human Genetics at McGill, Director of Bioinformatics at the McGill Genome Center and Director of @C3Genomics computationalgenomics.ca/BourqueLab

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BF Francis Ouellette @bffo.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
From @c3genomics.bsky.social, the #Canadian Centre for #Computational #Genomics | Inside #GenPipes: Exploring C3G's Software Solution for Life Science Research | #CoreFacility #OpenScience #Bioinformatics #Education 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 ⬇️ computationalgenomics.ca/inside-genpi...
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Inside GenPipes: Exploring C3G's Software Solution for Life Science Research - Canadian Centre for Computational Genomics
Take a closer look at one of C3G’s software solutions; its purpose, its strengths, its newest features, and how it continues to support the life science community.
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Guillaume Bourque @guilbourque.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Exciting to see this out! Please take a look and let us know what you think about our new tool for STR genotyping.
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Cedric Feschotte @cedricfeschotte.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Crushed to hear of Mark Batzer’s passing. He was the Boyd Professor at Louisiana State University. His influential research revealed how mobile elements shape the genomes of humans & other mammals. Mark’s personality, generosity & positivity were larger than life. He lifted everyone up. HUGE loss 💔
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Guillaume Bourque @guilbourque.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Nice Christmas gift to see it in print!
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Guillaume Bourque @guilbourque.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Exciting new conference!
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Guillaume Bourque @guilbourque.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Congrats Manvendra, well deserved!
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Global Alliance for Genomics and Health @ga4gh.org · 01/12/2025
GA4GH April Connect 2026 registration and session proposal submissions are now open! The meeting will take place from 14 to 17 April 2026 in Montreal, Canada. We invite the GA4GH community to submit session proposals by 30 January. Learn more: broadinstitute.swoogo.com/connect26/10...
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Guillaume Bourque @guilbourque.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Exciting! Glad to see the Gold Cohort starting to get used for new discoveries!
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Elena Kuzmin @elena-kuzmin.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Excited to share our preprint on the “Integrated Metabolic Complex Genetic Interaction Network of Chromosome 4p Loss in Basal Breast Cancer” led by @lynnkaram.bsky.social! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Guillaume Bourque @guilbourque.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Such a great @ga4gh.org meeting in Uppsala this past week. Genomics, with the help of GA4GH standards and policies, is really moving into the Age of Implementation globally!
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Guillaume Bourque @guilbourque.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
If you’re planning to be at ASHG, you should go see the poster ⬇️
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Guillaume Bourque @guilbourque.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Wow, great summary!
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Yuxin Zhou @yuxinzhou.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Thanks for sharing our work, @guilbourque.bsky.social! This work will also be presented at the #ASHG2025 conference on Wednesday, October 15th, in Boston!! My poster can be found at Board 1100W at the Thomas M. Menino Convention Center. Come and talk to me 🧬!!
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Guillaume Bourque @guilbourque.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
🚨 New paper alert on telomeres! 🚨 Something different from the group! Thanks to Yuxin, a talented student in the lab, we used long-reads in 75 human trios to study telomeres and their inheritance.
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Guillaume Bourque @guilbourque.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
So inspiring to run with Darryl Fox to support Terry’s dream and the @marathonofhope.bsky.social
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John Greally @greally.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Looks like my book is available for pre-order: a.co/d/cTKIwBN #EpigeneticsBook
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Guillaume Bourque @guilbourque.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Excited for the start of the Croucher Retrotransposons meeting organized by Danny Leung in Hong Kong. First speaker, the King of Krabs! projects.croucher.org.hk/advanced-stu...
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Guillaume Bourque @guilbourque.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
The issue that jumped at us in the current annotation of young LTR subfamilies in human, is that there was lot of variability in divergence rate (sometimes bimodal). That's what we tried to improve.
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Guillaume Bourque @guilbourque.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Is the annotation of viruses in the human genome accurate? We think not. Take a look at our new paper and let us know if you agree! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A phylogenetic approach uncovers cryptic endogenous retrovirus subfamilies in the primate lineage
A phylogenetic approach reveals cryptic LTR subfamilies and functional insights at nucleotide resolution in primates.
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Nadav Ahituv @nadavahituv.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Lentivirus massively parallel reporter assays integrate & enrich for specific sequences in the genome. We utilize this to test their epigenetic modifications & open chromatin alongside their regulatory activity. Amazing work by Zicong Zhang, Fumitaka Inoue & others. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Simultaneous epigenomic profiling and regulatory activity measurement using e2MPRA
Cis-regulatory elements (CREs) have a major effect on phenotypes including disease. They are identified in a genome-wide manner by analyzing the binding of transcription factors (TFs), various co-fact...
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Adam Phillippy @aphillippy.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
The human pangenome continues to grow and improve! Release 2 is here! Click through for the details, but this is a pretty amazing dataset including not just the phased assemblies, but PacBio HiFi, ONT Ultralong, Dovetail/Illumina Hi-C, PacBio Kinnex, and Illumina WGS for all samples
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Genome Canada @genomecanada.ca · 25/04/2025
Canada’s genomics community is rising to the challenge. ➡️ We’re sequencing 100K human genomes in 4 years to give researchers and innovators the data they need to transform health care. Learn how the diversity of the dataset we build will set Canada apart as a global leader in #PrecisionHealth.
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Jonathan Göke @jonathangoeke.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Excellent opportunity for PI positions at the Genome Institute of Singapore! Outstanding facilities, latest genomic technologies, strong and stable science funding. Junior candidates and established scientists are welcome to apply
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Guillaume Bourque @guilbourque.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Bye bye magical Kyoto, see you next time!
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Guillaume Bourque @guilbourque.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Check out the new STR tool from @davidlougheed.bsky.social in the group! Works with both PacBio and Nanopore!
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Guillaume Bourque @guilbourque.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
#GoCanadaGo
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Guillaume Bourque @guilbourque.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Yeah, great one!
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Gavin Sherlock @gsherloc.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
On January 6th, 1995, my (now ex) wife and I boarded a flight from Heathrow to JFK on a one way ticket. We had two suitcases and about $900 in cash - this was everything we owned and we were moving to the US. We thought it was maybe for 2-3 years. I had visited the US once, for a conference, and
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Jonathan Göke @jonathangoeke.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
We are recruiting! We have an open position for a postdoctoral fellow to join our team at the Genome Institute of Singapore to work with long read RNA-Seq data. It’s a beautiful city state and outstanding research environment! More details here: jglab.org/postdoc-posi...
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Guillaume Bourque @guilbourque.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Amazing! So moving. Such an important cause.
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Guillaume Bourque @guilbourque.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Time for #MadeInCanada! madeinca.ca
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Guillaume Bourque @guilbourque.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Thanks for sharing this very nice story of collaboration!
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Deborah Bourc’his @deborahbourchis.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Dear all, registrations are open for the Mobile Genome @EMBO workshop. Many slots for posters, short talks but also long talks for last minute groundbreaking results! Let’s meet again on Nov 4-7, 2025 in Heidelberg. www.embl.org/about/info/c...
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The mobile genome: genetic and physiological impacts of transposable elements
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Guillaume Bourque @guilbourque.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Back in Barbados!
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Guillaume Bourque @guilbourque.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Two months ago, Jeffrey from lab also became Dr. Hyacinthe! His thesis was: "An Atlas of Transposable Elements Associated with the Epigenome Across Human Cell Types"
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Guillaume Bourque @guilbourque.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Congratulations to the newly minted Dr. Zhuang! Well done! His thesis was about: "Unveiling Sex-Biased Patterns in RNA Expression and DNA Methylation in Mice Organs".
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Guillaume Bourque @guilbourque.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Important to support data infrastructures! I signed!
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Guillaume Bourque @guilbourque.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Absolutely! Thanks again for doing most of the planning work.
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Phil Beaudoin @beaudoin.social · 28/11/2024
« Tout est public sur Bluesky? Les gens vont me piquer mes trucs! » 🧵 Un petit fil sur les avantages et les défis d’un réseau social où nos données sont publiques et faciles d’accès.* * Informé par plus d’un millier d’heures passées à jouer dans le code de Bluesky. 👇
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Guillaume Bourque @guilbourque.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Wow, that’s quite a poster session #MBSJ2024! And it’s only half of it…
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Guillaume Bourque @guilbourque.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Thank you #bsky! So nice to have a news feed filled with #science once again!
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Adam Phillippy @aphillippy.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Long-read special issue of GR is out, including our paper on T2T assembly using only Nanopore. Just in time for ONT to discontinue duplex cells on Nov 27 😅😂 Good thing Verkko also works great with HERRO-corrected simplex data! 📄 genome.cshlp.org/content/34/1... 📖 genome.cshlp.org/content/34/1...
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Table of Contents — November 2024, 34 (11)
An international, peer-reviewed genome sciences journal featuring outstanding original research that offers novel insights into the biology of all organisms
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Guillaume Bourque @guilbourque.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I will be at my first large Japanese conference next week (MBSJ in Fukuoka). I'm organizing a session on computational epigenomic methods with Ryuichiro Nakato. Let me know if you're also planning to be there! www.aeplan.jp/mbsj2024/en-...
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The 47th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan
The 47th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan onsite:2024.11.27[Wed]~11.29[Fri] Fukuoka International Congress Center, Marine Messe Fukuoka President:Hiroshi Kimura (Institute of I...
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Molly Gale (Gale-Hammell Lab) @mollygale.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Tracking transposable element (TE) activity in genomics data can be a pain, but there are solutions! Our lab built TEtranscripts -- which we've updated to work for small RNAs (TEsmall), bulk RNA at the locus level (TElocal), and in single-cell data (TEsingle). Check it out! www.mghlab.org/software
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Clément Goubert @clementgoubert.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
If you like #Transposons 👾 check out this feed and tag your posts with #TEsky! Thanks @tobybarilbio.bsky.social 🤗 bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Guillaume Bourque @guilbourque.bsky.social · 02/04/2024
Looking for postdoc for the lab in Kyoto 🇯🇵 to work on comparative epigenomics and transposable elements. #TEsky Come work with us in this awesome city and institute! ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/wp/wp-conten...
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Rita Rebollo @ritarebollo.bsky.social · 01/02/2024
Hi! Only two more weeks to register for #ICTE2024 & to submit an abstract for a talk on one of the different topics below: 1) TEs, genome evolution and adaptation 2) TEs in health and disease 3) TE control & epigenetics 4) Transposition mechanisms and applications See you soon! #TEsky
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