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Radical Anthropology

More on #genomics, this is obviously crazy since the #world's #genetic #diversity is contained within #Africa. Yet African DNA is underrepresented! Oh dear, it should not be only African scientists noticing this.

'African scientists say the world is missing vital medical insights by ignoring the continent’s vast genetic diversity. Less than 2 percent of human genome sequencing worldwide comes from African populations.'

rfi.fr/en/africa/20250404-scie

RFI · Scientists warn African DNA is missing from the global genome mapBy RFI
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

#Genetic data site #openSNP to close and delete data over #privacy concerns
openSNP, a platform for sharing genetic and phenotypic data, will shut down, and delete all user submissions over privacy concerns and risk of misuse by authoritarian governments.
Announced earlier this week by co-founder Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, who expressed concerns about how personal #genomics data is subject to abuse today and how fundamentally landscape has changed over the last 14 years.
bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

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Wen

Another ‘scandal - but the wrong one! The real one is that Irish public money founded the acquisition of genetic information and then its transfer to the US - where as has become obvious, a group of pirates who could not give a shit about people are ‘managing’ privacy and the judiciary.

archive.today/2025.03.30-01235

Correction - added link to news archive

Screen capture from like Article - reads ‘The boss of a company that controls the largest database of Irish genomes a project backed by €66 million from the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund - IS to be arraigned on a charge of paying for sex as part of an American investigation into human trafficking. Jonathan Lanfear is chief executive of HiberCell, owner of the Irish company Genuity Science, which controls a huge tranche of Irish genetic data assembled over several years with hefty taxpayer support. The database was assembled when the company was called Genomics Medicine Ireland, but it was later rebranded as Genuity Science and sold to HiberCell, which is based in the US. The business has for years been the source of concern over the private ownership of such sensitive medical data, for which it charges large pharmaceutical companies millions of dollars to access for research purposes.’
Image - a genome - pretty picture if meaningless
#HiberCell#GentuityScience#Privacy
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CSBJ

🧬 This study explores how nanopore sequencing transforms biochemical molecules into human-readable signals—revolutionizing how we decode protozoan genomes.

🔗 Nanopore sequencing of protozoa: Decoding biological information on a string of biochemical molecules into human-readable signals. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.csbj.2025.01

📚 CSBJ: csbj.org/

Nanopore sequencing of protozoa: Decoding biological information on a string of biochemical molecules into human-readable signals. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csbj.2025.01.002
#NanoporeSequencing#Genomics#DNA
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Eli Roberson (he/him)

#Genomics
#Bioinformatics
#Academia

Beware US academic coders. If you have collaborators contributing code from a sanctioned region, your repos may be locked.

See mastodon.social/@organicmaps/1

The kicker is that the US is leaning authoritarian and all in on censorship. If Canada or Mexico become sanction targets and you have code pushes from there, Microsoft will lock you out of your GitHub accounts.

GitHub read-only
MastodonOrganic Maps (@organicmaps@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image We have a temporary glitch with GitHub—probably some contributor was geolocated in a sanctioned region (no details yet). All required documents to unlock the account have been uploaded. Don't blame Microsoft/GitHub - it is just U.S. law. Please be patient. It should be unblocked soon.
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