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Mitch Bekritsky

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Bioinformatics team lead @Illumina, dad, ATLien. All views are my own.

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On the pp and happy to answer your questions @aliceguthrie.bsky.social!

21.10.2025 13:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Constellation illuminates rare disease genetics Despite significant advances in genomic sequencing, the resolution of many rare disease cases is still hindered by variant detection limitations. Short reads struggle in homologous regions, and long r...

Illumina constellation technology gets a preprint after ASHG. Detecting complex genomic variants in samples that could not be assessed with traditional long reads. #Sedlazeck

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

21.10.2025 04:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Working with @sedlazeck.bsky.social and his group on exploring the utility of Constellation has been amazing. So happy to see this preprint out!

21.10.2025 13:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Constellation illuminates rare disease genetics https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.15.25337675v1

18.10.2025 01:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Illumina Mapped Read Technology
Illumina Mapped Read Technology YouTube video by Illumina

Working on Constellation mapped reads technology has been one of the most rewarding experiences I've had as a scientist so far. So excited to see this animation describing how it works.

#illumina #constellation

youtu.be/Ro5zX6sObyk?...

10.10.2025 22:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Phasing โœ… Parent of Origin โœ… SV resolution โœ… from *short* read WGS with @illumina Constellation technology

Haven't heard about this yet?
- see P23.008B at #ESHG2025

@ExeterGenomes
@nihrexeterbrc.bsky.social
@exeter.ac.uk

24.05.2025 10:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 12 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

To somehow pretend that AI is different than any academic or other effort undertaken by a person where you incorporate the knowledge of others to generate new ideas is...I mean, that's just stupid. The rules did not change. They were broken, repeatedly.

29.12.2024 00:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Some of these responses ate very gaslighting adjacent. When you copy someone's work verbatim, that is plagiarism. When you use someone's work without citation, that is...also plagiarism. And that's when the work is published and part of the public record!

29.12.2024 00:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Check out this blog post on Constellation mapped read technology! Exciting times at Illumina :-)

20.12.2024 19:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Illumina Innovation Roadmap Hear from Steve Barnard about the latest Illumina innovations. Niall Lennon, PhD from the Broad Institute of MIT joins Steve to provide insights into new Illumina technology.

If you'd like to learn more about Illumina's exciting innovation roadmap (including Constellation mapped reads), have a look at this recording from ASHG featuring Steven Barnard and Niall J Lennon!

(Fill in a form to access the webinar)

www.illumina.com/events/webin...

10.12.2024 18:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We get to work with some very talented folks here at Illumina. It's definitely one of the perks of the job ๐Ÿ˜‰ Looking forward to seeing their application!

24.11.2024 01:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's an option, yes :-) I'm remote myself

23.11.2024 20:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Senior Bioinformatics Scientist What if the work you did every day could impact the lives of people you know? Or all of humanity? At Illumina, we are expanding access to genomic technology to realize health equity for billions of pe...

The Genome Informatics team is hiring! We are a smart, fun, and creative team that is working on the cutting edge of bioinformatics, including Constellation read mapping, an exciting new technology from Illumina enabling long range information from short reads. Also, Vitor is an awesome manager :-)

22.11.2024 23:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Illumina Provides Updates on Multiomics Product Pipeline at ASHG The company offered more details on its "constellation" mapped read technology, Illumina Protein Prep assay, 5-base genome, PIPseqย V single-cell assay, and paired 500-base MiSeq reads.

I am incredibly proud of the work being done by the bioinformatics and assay team to enable Constellation mapped read technology. I feel very fortunate to work with such bright and talented people :-)

18.11.2024 15:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1