One Health as it pertains to antimicrobial resistance as it pertains to microbial genomics

After reading too many publications and proposals I do not understand the relationship between one health, and antimicrobial resistance and…

Comparing Midjourney versions 3 and 4 for science themed images

Midjourney is a proprietary artificial intelligence program that creates images from textual descriptions. You interact with the Midjourney…

A bioinformatician's guide to serovars and antigenic formulae in Salmonella

In the post I will describe the basics of Salmonella serovar nomenclature. This post will act as a primer for bioinformaticians starting…

What is Mastodon?

(Skip ahead if you know how the internet works) When I was a teenager I used to moderate a phpBB web forum that my friend had set up. It…

How to use rMLST and its application to Acinetobacter

In the previous post , I describe rMLST ( Jolley et al. 2012 ) as a ready and able alternative for species without existing MLST schemes…