Ming "Tommy" Tang

@tangming2005 · Boston, MA · joined 10 Dec 2011

Director of bioinformatics at AstraZeneca. YouTube at chatomics. On my way to helping 1 million people learn bioinformatics. Also talks about leadership.

46 886Followers

2 662Following

76 882Posts total

103.2KViews on collected posts

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Ming "Tommy" Tang@tangming200516 Sep

Cancer treatment alters mutant selection in normal esophagus https://t.co/1TBphDhNCb https://t.co/MjczjXl5ND

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Ming "Tommy" Tang@tangming200516 Sep

fastVEP: A high-performance Variant Effect Predictor written in Rust. https://t.co/l9bxxSDDul https://t.co/m4zXMnjO9P

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Ming "Tommy" Tang@tangming200516 Sep

Everyone wants to master bioinformatics fast. But speed is a lie — time is the ally. What a decade actually taught me about learning this field. 1 of 290 👉 https://t.co/D9hfIdcztU https://t.co/RO6SyABUCR

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Ming "Tommy" Tang@tangming200515 Sep

@tangming2005 wonder if polyA selection in rna-seq dodges this or if gRNAs still sneak through 20 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Ming "Tommy" Tang@tangming200515 Sep

"guide RNAs copurify during RNA extraction and inhibit RT–qPCR for amplicons spanning or upstream of the guide RNA binding site" A pervasive RT–qPCR artifact inflates RNA knockdown by RNA-targeting CRISPR https://t.co/ISud2dkGtk https://t.co/OjnpOcBmgn

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Ming "Tommy" Tang@tangming200515 Sep

Enjoy this tweet? follow me @tangming2005 and join my newsletter to learn computational biology https://t.co/w5URe0YlWz 645 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Ming "Tommy" Tang@tangming200514 Sep

@tangming2005 yeah the implicit centering killing sparsity in irlba still haunts me 439 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Ming "Tommy" Tang@tangming200514 Sep

1 of 290 in the field guide. Free sampler 👉 https://t.co/D9hfIdcztU 2.1K views · 15 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Ming "Tommy" Tang@tangming200514 Sep

My biggest bioinformatics regret: barely passing linear algebra in college. Every matrix, PCA, and single-cell method made me pay for it later. Here's what I wish I'd learned. https://t.co/yU55wA8XhH

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Ming "Tommy" Tang@tangming200522 Apr

@tangming2005 A great resource. A lot of people need exactly this kind of step-by-step bridge between a paper figure and a real workflow. It also complements well what we share at @Dldbioscience, where we focus more on the downstream analysis side once that first replication step 204 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Ming "Tommy" Tang@tangming200525 Jul 2025

@tangming2005 全基因组复制在维管植物的物种形成过程中普遍存在, 被认为是物种适应极端环境的重要机制之一，对吧？ 725 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Ming "Tommy" Tang@tangming200526 Jun 2025

@tangming2005 I just noticed you haven't used Twitter in 20 years? 493 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Ming "Tommy" Tang@tangming200522 Feb 2025

The guide I wish I had 12 years ago: a step-by-step guide to replicate a genomics paper figure https://t.co/xUftcdYz9K 75.4K views · 659 likes · 101 reposts · 17 replies Open on X →

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9 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views867this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %1.85%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.06%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	867	924	0.94×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	1.85%	3.62%	0.51×
Engagement rate	1.06%	1.52%	0.70×

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75.4K22 Feb

49326 Jun

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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes48.0%915 in total

Reposts6.7%128 in total

Replies1.5%29 in total

Quotes0.3%5 in total

Bookmarks43.5%829 in total

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