Peter Cock<p>Thanks to <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@vicgbuswell" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>vicgbuswell</span></a></span> in the audience, photographic proof that I was in Inverness last week presenting at the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/UKDNAWG24" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKDNAWG24</span></a> meeting - the conference programme is on <a href="https://www.ukeof.org.uk/our-work/ukdna/2024-ukdnawg-conf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ukeof.org.uk/our-work/ukdna/20</span><span class="invisible">24-ukdnawg-conf</span></a> as a PDF.</p><p>The tables of in-silico primer amplification versus taxononomic lineage shown were generated with <a href="https://github.com/peterjc/picobio/blob/master/primer_selection/isPcr_lineage_report.py" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/peterjc/picobio/blo</span><span class="invisible">b/master/primer_selection/isPcr_lineage_report.py</span></a> and sister scripts. This was work done for a <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/NaturalEngland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NaturalEngland</span></a> project, looking at <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/metabarcoding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metabarcoding</span></a> primer biases for terrestrial invertebrates - release of formal report pending.</p>