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Christopher Tomkins-Tinch

Researcher at Broad Institute

Publications -  33
Citations -  3880

Christopher Tomkins-Tinch is an academic researcher from Broad Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Zika virus. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 27 publications receiving 2171 citations. Previous affiliations of Christopher Tomkins-Tinch include Harvard University & Rochester Institute of Technology.

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Bioconda: sustainable and comprehensive software distribution for the life sciences.

TL;DR: The present Bioconda, a distribution of bioinformatics software for the lightweight, multi-platform and language-agnostic package manager Conda, improves analysis reproducibility by allowing users to define isolated environments with defined software versions.
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Zika virus evolution and spread in the Americas

Hayden C. Metsky, +81 more
- 24 May 2017 - 
TL;DR: It is found that ZIKV circulated undetected in multiple regions for many months before the first locally transmitted cases were confirmed, highlighting the importance of surveillance of viral infections.
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Genomic epidemiology reveals multiple introductions of Zika virus into the United States.

Nathan D. Grubaugh, +76 more
- 24 May 2017 - 
TL;DR: It is shown that at least 4 introductions, but potentially as many as 40, contributed to the outbreak in Florida and that local transmission is likely to have started in the spring of 2016—several months before its initial detection.