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Thomas A. Christensen II

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Hi! I’m Thomas. I love anything to do with cattle or technology, but especially anything to do with both of them. I spend way more time in beef country with beef cows, but I’ve got a soft spot for Brown Swiss dairy cows (just in case you couldn’t tell by the pictures). I’ve worn a lot of different hats:

First and foremost✝️ Christian
Location🦬 Wyomingite sojourning in 🌻 Kansas (this ought to be interesting)
Education📐 Chemical Engineer
Profession🧬 Bioinformatician and 🐄🩺 Veterinarian (soon!)
Politics🗽 Juris naturalist
Hobbies🎥 Filmmaker and 💃🏻 Square/swing dancer

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Genetic analysis of bovine papillomas

Bovine papillomavirus (BPV) is a major cause of reproductive failure in cattle. In bulls, penile papillomas caused by BPV may cause reluctance to breed, and is always a cause to fail an animal on a breeding soundness exam. Historically, it has been thought that BPV was transmitted via direct contact and could be controlled by managing clinically presenting animals in the herd, but more recent evidence suggests alternative modes of transmission. BPV has been found repeatably in clinically healthy …

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Got Warts? Bovine Papillomavirus Pathogenesis, Transmission, and Vaccination

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YAVSAP: versatile viral quasispecies analysis for veterinary samples

Viral populations within an infected host are composed of viral particles with a spectrum of genetic mutations rather than a unified genome. This phenomenon is referred to as viral “quasispecies,” and has been useful for the understanding of viral transmission and early detection of new viral variants. Next generation sequencing (NGS) has enabled the study of these quasispecies for many viral species, notably Influenza A and B, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Foot and Mouth …

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Are you ready for Real Life Real Impact 2024? Because we here at Kansas State University are! Here’s a sneak preview of what to expect in January.

More info and signup at https://cvm.org/real-life-real-impact-detail/real-life-real-impact-central

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nf-core/taxprofiler: highly parallelised and flexible pipeline for metagenomic taxonomic classification and profiling

Metagenomic classification tackles the problem of characterising the taxonomic source of all DNA sequencing reads in a sample. A common approach to address the differences and biases between the many different taxonomic classification tools is to run metagenomic data through multiple classification tools and databases. This, however, is a very time-consuming task when performed manually - particularly when combined with the appropriate preprocessing of sequencing reads before the classification. …

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