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Tony Cox

@coxtonyj

Bioinformatics, string algorithms, DNA sequence analysis. Formerly Solexa/Illumina, now bioinformatics consulting at genomerics.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/coxtonyj/

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Agentic Coding For Scientists A four-part series on using coding agents like Claude Code for scientific programming, covering fundamentals, workflows, best practices, and the human side of AI-assisted development.

The last five months with Claude Code have completely changed how we work.

matsen.group/agentic.html details:

• How agents work (& why it matters)
• Git Flow with agents
• Using agents for science
• The human-agent interface

Questions? What has your experience been?

13.11.2025 17:08 👍 14 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 1

So glad this is finally out. The method has been instrumental in allowing us to compress the AllTheBacteria data - ~2 million bacterial genomes shrink from 3Terabytes (gzipped) to 100Gb using phylogenetic compression. Great work by @brinda.eu

09.04.2025 22:27 👍 126 🔁 51 💬 4 📌 1

Now we just need an LLM to win the the literature prize #nobelprize

09.10.2024 12:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Anthony Cox on LinkedIn: I am delighted to be joining the next cohort of Carbon13's Venture Builder… I am delighted to be joining the next cohort of Carbon13's Venture Builder Programme for the climate emergency. Carbon13 builds and backs teams addressing…

Pleased to announce I'm joining Cohort 7 of the Carbon13 venture builder, aiming to develop climate tech solutions with the potential to significantly reduce and prevent carbon emissions. www.linkedin.com/posts/coxton...

19.09.2024 13:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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BWT construction and search at the terabase scale https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.00613 🧬🖥️ https://github.com/lh3/ropebwt3

04.09.2024 20:00 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

crosswordgenius.com from www.unlikely.ai solves and explains cryptic clues using AI. When I give up on a clue and Google it I usually get sent there!

11.01.2024 22:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Great to see the study I worked on at Illumina's AI lab make it into Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s41... A lot of hard work by the lead authors, really pleased this has paid off. 🧬 🖥️

30.11.2023 10:44 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

.@jnalanko.bsky.social and co. led groundbreaking work recently in terms of defining the SBWT & subset rank & select, and developing data structures for these. This new preprint provides reductions to standard rank & select, claiming similar space and 5-7x faster query arxiv.org/abs/2310.19702 🤯🧬🖥️

01.11.2023 03:28 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0