Diving into Spatial Omics: Field Notes from My First Summit
I’m starting this blog to share my thoughts and experiences as an MS student trying to find my footing in the field of bioinformatics. As the name — which I’m actually quite proud of — suggests, these are my unfiltered and potentially unmapped thoughts on whatever topic happens to excite me any given week. The reason I'm blogging publicly is to motivate myself to explore topics I enjoy, build a professional presence in bioinformatics, and keep a personal log of experiments and ideas to reflect on and share. Hopefully, the name Low Coverage Thoughts will one day feel like an ironic nod to these early steps in the field. This past week, I had the pleasure of attending the 3rd Spatial Biology for Drug Development Summit. It was my first conference in Boston, and overall it was a great experience — not only free to attend, but also with free food (which means a lot for a grad student). I came in with only my own research and no hands-on experience in spatial transcriptomics, proteomic...