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Lorena Pantano

@lopantano.bsky.social
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Life Science Data Platform Savvy. Nextflow ambassador. Boston-area Women in Bioinformatics Founder. Love reading fantasy books by women authors. More: lpantano.github.io

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Lorena Pantano @lopantano.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Ethan and Codie Sanchez: The blunt truth is: hope is not a very good strategy. A lot of smart people burn out because they lose the thread of where they are going. They keep their head down, work hard, and hope someone notices (“work hard and hope to be noticed”).
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Lorena Pantano @lopantano.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
A friend asks: "Does creatine actually improve focus?" You dig through the papers, find the nuance, explain it — and that knowledge disappears into a chat thread. What if your expert review fed a shared database anyone could search? 🧬
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How I Built an AI-Powered Scientific Paper Review System For Health Information
Architecture walkthrough of an AI-guided peer review system using Claude, GitHub, Supabase, and Next.js to evaluate health claim evidence at scale.
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Lorena Pantano @lopantano.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
claude-mem is gaining traction fast — local memory persistence for Claude across sessions and projects. Running it through its paces this week. Back with results next week. github.com/thedotmack/c... Source: Ross Fledderjohn - rossfledderjohn.com
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GitHub - thedotmack/claude-mem: A Claude Code plugin that automatically captures everything Claude does during your coding sessions, compresses it with AI (using Claude's agent-sdk), and injects relev...
A Claude Code plugin that automatically captures everything Claude does during your coding sessions, compresses it with AI (using Claude's agent-sdk), and injects relevant context back into fut...
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Lorena Pantano @lopantano.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
This TED talk by Molly Graham will change how you think about your career. 1. The "stairs" are a trap 2. Learn to distinguish fear types 3. Become a professional idiot www.ted.com/talks/molly_...
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Forget the corporate ladder — winners take risks
Success in your career looks different for everyone — but no matter your industry, you'll need to take risks. Company and community builder Molly Graham shares three key skills to learn before…
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Lorena Pantano @lopantano.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Of course there is a .claudeignore. Using it for .env files and having a .env.example file to show my variables. Then a sentence in Claude.md "use .env.example or the code to know what env you have available".
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Lorena Pantano @lopantano.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Sometimes even claude fails, can you spot the funny mistake? or maybe it was not... #claudeai #checkyourwork
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Lorena Pantano @lopantano.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
R Shiny is great for prototyping. But for a research clinical tool used by physicians/researchers worldwide, we needed more. The PANGEA-SMM paper (Nature Medicine, 2026), we rebuilt the Shiny prototype. Same model. Better infrastructure. Free at pangeamodels.org. #Bioinformatics #OpenScience
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Lorena Pantano @lopantano.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
If you use #claudeai and develop #nf-core, this is a good set of skills that will save you time: github.com/jonasscheid/... Thanks Jonas Scheid.
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GitHub - jonasscheid/claude-nfcore-plugin
Contribute to jonasscheid/claude-nfcore-plugin development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Samantha Klasfeld, Ph.D. @sklasfeld.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
🧬💻 Before you touch any code in a biobank analysis, you need to answer two questions: what's your research question, and who's your audience? My new blog series on the BWIB blog starts there. 🔗 boston-wib.org/blog/biobank...
Iceberg diagram illustrating hidden complexities in biobank data: visible raw data above the waterline, and three categories of hidden challenges below: batch effects, population stratification, and inaccurate phenotype data.
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Lorena Pantano @lopantano.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
We solved multi-collaborator genomics data sharing by composing existing tools (IGV), automating format conversion, and deploying via GitHub Actions + AWS (S3 and CloudFront). And minimal authentication with lambda. youtu.be/_qPsqCyFsgg substack.com/home/post/p-... #bioinformatics #genomics
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Lorena Pantano @lopantano.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I built an IGV integration for Seqera Studios with automatic track discovery. Spin up a Studio, point it to your Nextflow or nf-core pipeline output, and IGV launches with all compatible files already loaded. 📺 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWHC...
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Bringing IGV webapp to Your Cloud Workspace in Seqera
Bringing IGV visualization directly to your cloud workspace eliminates the download-to-view cycle
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Lorena Pantano @lopantano.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
After 6 months of work, we're finally launching the Health Integrity Project! 🎉 We built this to fight health misinformation by bridging the gap between scientific research and the public. Starting w Women's Health Edition 🔬 healthintegrityproject.org #HealthMisinformation #WomensHealth
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Lorena Pantano @lopantano.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
If you want to hear real life stories about #CompBio, join our Podcast smartlink.ausha.co/a-coffee-wit.... Latest episodes on how to optimize Rmarkdowns for big projects: smartlink.ausha.co/a-coffee-wit... cc Alex Bartlett
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A Coffee with CompBio
Step into the world where algorithms meet biology! Hosts Lorena Pantano and Alex Bartlett, two dynamic women in science, unravel the complexities and curiosities of computational biology. Each episode...
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Lorena Pantano @lopantano.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Daily reminder to use current tools to save and read data in R. github.com/qsbase/qs/is... #r #bioinformatics #compbio #best-practices
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Nextflow @nextflow.io · 15/05/2025
@lopantano.bsky.social just presented on unifying community-driven analysis guidelines and templates for data interpretability, showcasing the bcbio-reports project from @hsph.harvard.edu. This infrastructure standardizes multi-omic analysis so researchers can focus on biology. 🧬
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Lorena Pantano @lopantano.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
🧬☕ Exciting News! @abartlett004.bsky.social and I just launched A Coffee with CompBio - a podcast where we dive into the science, stories, and people behind computational biology. 🔗Apple podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a... 🔗Spotify open.spotify.com/show/5IF1Z9x... 🌐 podcast.ausha.co/a-coffee-wit...
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A Coffee with CompBio | Ausha
Step into the world where algorithms meet biology! Hosts Lorena Pantano and Alex Bartlett, two dynamic women in science, unravel the complexities and curiosities of computational biology. Each episode...
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Lorena Pantano @lopantano.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
"You know you're still needed as a bioinformatician when people keep sending you Word documents with code in them. 😅 #Bioinformatics #Code #TechLife"
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Lorena Pantano @lopantano.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Using seqera AI to understand nextflow.log, actually it told me where in the nextflow script was the error and I could see the problem was my samplesheet names. I would say this is even a better usage of AI :) @seqera #chipseq @nextflow.io @nf-co.re #troubleshooting to 2min #bioinformatics
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Lorena Pantano @lopantano.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
If you’re in Boston 🌆 and use #nf-core or #Nextflow, join our regional channel! 🌐 We’re starting monthly meetings 📅 to foster community growth and mutual support! 🤝 nfcore.slack.com/archives/C08...
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Lorena Pantano @lopantano.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Thank you, R. Gonzalo Parra 🏳️‍🌈, for making it happen. We should NOT fear to be ourselves. That is why this communication is important. This is the path to a better world where everyone feels welcome. 🙏🏽
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Lorena Pantano @lopantano.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
🎙️Listen to this insightful podcast about current Generative LLM technology. It covers how it behaves with edge cases and when data is insufficient, and clarifies difficult-to-remove biases. These biases affect fields like life-science R&D, the most. #LLM #Biotech podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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When AI Cannibalizes Its Data
Podcast Episode · Short Wave · 02/18/2025 · 13m
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Lorena Pantano @lopantano.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
📊 An interesting study highlights how our reliance on thresholds for gene expression data could lead us to: • Miss promising new targets 🎯 • Invest resources in suboptimal candidates 💸 #Genomics #Bioinformatics #ResearchInnovation #DataScience Source: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Lorena Pantano @lopantano.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Looking forward for the team to bring more people together around this vast effort of making analysis accessible to everyone #bioinformatics
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Lorena Pantano @lopantano.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Always learn some new package from #tidyverse. This time reprex to help you with posting when you need help with some code reprex.tidyverse.org/index.html #bestpractices #coding
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Prepare Reproducible Example Code via the Clipboard
Convenience wrapper that uses the rmarkdown package to render small snippets of code to target formats that include both code and output. The goal is to encourage the sharing of small, reproducible, a...
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Lorena Pantano @lopantano.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Just had an epiphany: I'm using GenAI tools to streamline everything—emails, scheduling, even crafting killer playlists. Saved all this time... only to dive into mind games to keep my brain sharp and nimble. Is this peak human irony or what? 🤖🧠 #LifeHacks #BrainTwister 😅
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Lorena Pantano @lopantano.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
We are having one in Boston, trying to hosting it around cambridge. Stay tune!
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