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#WhyIScience Q&A: A software engineer develops computational tools for psychiatric and brain research

Broad Institute

After earning a degree in Computer Science and working for multiple technology startups, Shakir first came to the Broad to work on a project studying human genetic variation called the 1000 Genomes Project, which launched in 2008. We’re reusing open-source software that other people have built and adapting it to further bioinformatic science.

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Reservoirs of Resistance

Codon

Resistance genes get packaged into mobile elements, such as plasmids, and swapped between different bacterial cells, including between species separated by great evolutionary distances. The soil samples were collected over a period spanning the start of human antibiotic production to the present day (1940 to 2008). Cite: Blake K.

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