clinical microbiology ESM Annual Congress 2026 Philip Fowler, 26th June 202626th June 2026 Earlier this week the 46th Annual Congress of the European Society of Mycobacteriology was held in Verona,… Continue Reading
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
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
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
antimicrobial resistance New paper: What can subpopulations tell us about rifampicin resistance? Philip Fowler, 14th October 202514th October 2025 Last Thursday this work which we’d previously preprinted looking at looking at rifampicin-resistant subpopulations in… Continue Reading
antimicrobial resistance New preprint: rapidly and reproducibly building resistant catalogues for M. tuberculosis Philip Fowler, 3rd October 202530th October 2025 The CRyPTIC project carried out many exciting research projects but it never quite got around… Continue Reading