After +4y of work, I couldn’t be more excited to announce the reference paper for Earth_Hologenome. This is the cornerstone of a collaborative effort involving +100 researchers from all continents, poised to yield exciting discoveries in the coming years!! cell.com/trends/ecology…

SingleM 0.18 is out, somewhat faster, more accurate, GTDB R220 taxonomy. 'microbial_fraction' now estimates community average genome size. R220 profiles of 250k SRA metagenomes at sandpiper.qut.edu.au github.com/wwood/singlem/…

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Wow, @nature has retracted the 2020 Poore et al. cancer microbiome paper that we showed (journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…) was deeply flawed. The retraction date is tomorrow so I can't yet read the official notice, but I'll update when I can Retraction Watch Professor Booty PhD

Translation: "Thanks Aussie Government for letting us persecute and torture your award-winning journalist with impunity for over a decade to make an example of him for all the other journalists out there. ps. don't forget you owe us $360b for those subs skippy"

Winds of change: Breathing a New Disciplinary Matrix in #Biology🦠💡 Inspiring closing keynote by Prof Seth Bordenstein Seth Bordenstein Director One Health Microbiome Center 👏🤩 Thank you all participants Applied Hologenomics Conference 2024 for lifting our #Applied #Hologenomics field to a higher level 🦠 #AHC2024

Found this poster by Raphael Eisenhofer at #AHC2024 Applied Hologenomics Conference 2024 really interesting: A reference-free method for estimating the fraction of bacterial 🦠 reads 🧬 in holobionts / metagenomes 👇🏻

This is rich - one of the primary reasons scientists don't have a lot of time to think is that @nature and its ilk have promoted a culture where the primary goal of science is to produce bloated Nature papers that require lots of time and money, but little thought, to produce.

I'll be teaching a session or two on the SingleM community profiler - come join us.