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York Data Science

@yorkdatascience.bsky.social

University of York Bioscience Technology Facility, Data Science group. We work with researchers to analyse and visualise their data, and more. www.york.ac.uk/biology/technology-f…

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York Data Science @yorkdatascience.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Well done, Sophia! 🎉

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York Data Science @yorkdatascience.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

We’re running two intensive training courses in the next couple weeks, and we’d love to see you there! Next week, it’s an Intro. to Scientific Computing, and the following week it’s an Intro. to Python. More details here: www.york.ac.uk/biology/tech... #datascience #bioinformatics #python

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York Data Science @yorkdatascience.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Very successful Transcriptomics workshop in collaboration with @elementalengbio.bsky.social. Thanks to everyone who came along!

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York Data Science @yorkdatascience.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Very excited to be off to the @fogenomics.bsky.social today!

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York Data Science @yorkdatascience.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

New publication just out that the group contributed to, assembling and annotating a genome of the destructive plant pathogen Pythium aphanidermatum, with @katherinedenby.bsky.social. A tricky one to assemble, with a significant amount of repeats. bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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Pathogenicity and Genome Assembly of a Pythium aphanidermatum Isolate Causing Damping‐Off in Amaranth in Controlled Environment Agriculture

We isolated Pythium aphanidermatum causing damping-off in amaranth seedlings with genome assembly and annotation highlighting a variety of cell wall-degrading enzymes.

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Elva Robinson @elvarobinson.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Did you know about these tiny shiny ants (red arrow) living with wood ants (blue arrow)? They are Shining Guest Ants (Formicoxenus) and we have recently discovered that a wood ant nest can be home to several genetically distinct colonies of these 'guests'! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author... 1/5

A large wood ant, with a dull black gaster and head, and dull brown thorax, is on a pale stone background, and indicated by a blue arrow. Next to it a much smaller ant with a shiny back gaster and shiny brown head and thorax is indicated by a red arrow. The blue arrow at is the wood ant Formica lugubris and the red arrow at is the shining guest ant Formicoxenus nitidulus.

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York Data Science @yorkdatascience.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Another great TSN meeting. Very encouraging to see how active the UK RTP community is. @ukri.org @uk-itss.bsky.social @tech-commit.bsky.social

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York Data Science @yorkdatascience.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

An interesting and important paper just out, that the group contributed significantly to, on the fascinating shining guest ant and its genetic diversity in English (RHS on plots) and Scottish (LHS on plots) populations. Led by @elvarobinson.bsky.social. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

DAPC scatter plot showing clusters of ant genotypes in six populations of shining guest ants in England and Scotland.

Stacked bar chart showing genetic ancestry (from STRUCTURE analysis) of populations of shining guest ants across seven different sites in England and Scotland.

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