clinical microbiology New paper: Addressing pandemic-wide systematic errors in the SARS-CoV-2 phylogeny Philip Fowler, 9th February 20269th February 2026 Zam Iqbal, at the University of Bath, led this epic study published today in Nature… Continue Reading
New preprint: comparing long- and short-read sequencing of Mycobacteria Philip Fowler, 7th February 202610th February 2026 In this preprint, we compare the differences when Mycobacterial samples are sequenced with either long-… Continue Reading
Gr-ADI consortium announced Philip Fowler, 22nd January 2026 Pleased and excited to be a small part of the Gram-Negative Antibiotic Discovery Innovator (Gr-ADI)… Continue Reading
antimicrobial resistance New paper: how well can we predict AMR in tuberculosis samples? Philip Fowler, 16th December 202516th December 2025 This paper just published in Microbial Genomics examines how well our software tool, gnomonicus, predicts… Continue Reading
Uncategorised Congratulations Dr Brunner! Philip Fowler, 10th December 202522nd January 2026 Viki successfully defended her DPhil thesis on Tuesday 9 December 2025 – well done! I… Continue Reading
antimicrobial resistance New preprint: Predicting pyrazinamide resistance in M. tuberculosis using a graph convolutional network Philip Fowler, 29th October 202530th October 2025 In previous work we’ve used “traditional” machine-learning approaches, like XGBoost, to learn and therefore predict… Continue Reading