Lars Barquist<p>I guess I should do an <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>introduction</span></a> -- I'm a computational biologist working at the intersection of bacterial <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/PathogenGenomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PathogenGenomics</span></a> and <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/FunctionalGenomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FunctionalGenomics</span></a>, mostly on sequencing-based technologies, and run a research group at the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research in Würzburg. </p><p>We dabble in <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/MachineLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MachineLearning</span></a>, <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/BayesianStatistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BayesianStatistics</span></a>, and <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/DataVisualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataVisualization</span></a>, figuring out ways to apply these techniques to investigate <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Pathogen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pathogen</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/GeneRegulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeneRegulation</span></a> and <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Evolution</span></a>.</p>