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Researcher in statistics and machine learning for genomics https://laurent-jacob.github.io/
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The next LEGEND conference on machine learning for evolutionary genomics will be in Aussois (French Alps) between December 8th and 12th. Mark your calendars and make sure your best work is ready next September when the call for abstracts opens 🙂 legend2025.sciencesconf.org

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🧬 Excited to share our latest work, MUSET 🌭, a new tool for creating abundance unitig matrices from sequencing data. It was published yesterday in Oxford Bioinformatics if you want to have a look👀 : academic.oup.com/bioinformati... Let's break it down:

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My book is (at last) out, just in time for Christmas! A blog post to celebrate and present it: francisbach.com/my-book-is-o...

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Ok, I tried to create my own list of people working on developing statistical or machine learning models applied to omics data. I am sure I missed a lot of cool people. If you'd like to be added, let me know. #Stats #ML #Omics go.bsky.app/73rcuJn

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We just released a preprint for Phyloformer, a likelihood-free inference method for phylogenetic reconstruction: biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Faster than distance methods like neighbor joining, it outperforms maximum likelihood methods under complex models of sequence evolution. 🧵

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The first LEGEND conference on Machine Learning for Evolutionary Genomics will be held on May 13-15th in Heraklion! Keynotes by Sara Mathieson, Hélène Morlon, Pier Palamara and Tal Pupko. Register and submit your abstract here: legend2024.sciencesconf.org

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