Alistair Miles' blog.
2024 was a great year for African Anopheles genomics. Many long labours all converged to produce a bumper crop of new research papers which have redefined our understanding of major malaria vector species and how they are evolving. Here is a selection of papers published last year, all of which made use of or generously contributed data to the Malaria Vector Genome Observatory . Clara Rehmann et…
Large genomic datasets like the vector observatory can be difficult to analyse. To make analysing these data easier, we've created analytical software and an online training course , and these have definitely helped. But many potential users of these data are coming from a background without much experience of genomics or programming, and so coming up with the right code can still be a challenge.…
A new Python package called anjl provides fast implementations of the neighbour-joining algorithm and interactive plotting of unrooted trees. Neighbour-joining trees (NJT) are a useful tool for exploratory analysis of genetic population structure. Previously I've used a Python package called biotite to compute NJT, but recently I was trying to build some bigger trees and things started to take a…