The new Oxford Nanopore Kit V14/R10.4.1 improves general accuracy as well as homopolymer calling in #SARSCoV2 genomes. We've added new medaka variant calling models to wf-artic to take advantage of new kit releases. labs.epi2me.io/sarscov2-midni…

Population-Based SARS-CoV-2 Whole-Genome Sequencing and Contact Tracing During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic in Switzerland academic.oup.com/jid/advance-ar… @ISPM Universität Bern Institute for Infectious Diseases (IFIK)

YACHT: an ANI-based statistical test to detect microbial presence/absence in a metagenomic sample biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Monkeypox, Zika and SARS-CoV-2 viruses use a completely different pathway to cap their mRNA. This work shows that they have similar enzymes for methylation, the final steps in the reaction, raising the prospect of broad-spectrum antiviral agents. nature.com/articles/s4146…

This paper is going viral. Why? Authors were able to find a way to enable the Recurrent Memory Transformer to retain information across up to 2 million tokens 🤯 In simpler words, it can process and remember vast amounts of data, significantly more than before. Just so you

A targeted liquid cultivation method for previously uncultured non-colony forming microbes frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Invitation to Submit to the Special Issue "New Insights into Molecular Epidemiology and Diagnostics of Human Pathogens" Pathogens MDPI #moleculardiagnostics #epidemiology #ngs #sequencing #bioinformatics #publichealth #phylogenetics mdpi.com/journal/pathog…

👏The Federal Council supports the continuation of the SPHN-DCC as a national competence and coordination center in the area of health data, including the #BioMedIT infrastructure and the #NationalDataStreams for the period 2025-2028. Read more: sphn.ch/2023/06/13/the…

tomasz baniak A big thank you to my colleagues, patients, their parents, family associations, and international researchers that have and are inspiring my research in #longcovidlink link to full text here authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S26…

Can LLMs generate mathematical proofs that can be rigorously checked? We release LeanDojo (leandojo.org): an open-source playground consisting of toolkits, benchmarks, and models for LLMs to prove formal theorems in the Lean proof assistant. Key features: - Tools for

I asked a friend who's a criminal defense lawyer what he'd change about the world to fix the most problems. He specializes in death penalty cases, so he's seen a lot. I expected him to say drugs, but he said if he could change one thing, it would be to make people better parents.

Exclusive: Aspartame, one of the world's most common artificial sweeteners, is set to be declared a possible carcinogen next month by a leading global health body, pitting it against the food industry and regulators reut.rs/3XzfgWX

How many animals get slaughtered for meat every day? My new Our World in Data article is now online: ourworldindata.org/how-many-anima…

NASCarD: A Rapid, PCR-Free Method for SARS-CoV-2 Whole-Genome Sequencing in Clinical Samples mdpi.com/2630824 #mdpipathogens via Pathogens MDPI a new approach allowing low amount of nucleic acids to be sequenced while selectively enriching for sequences of interest.

Is DNA all you need? In new work, we report Evo, a genomic foundation model that learns across the fundamental languages of biology: DNA, RNA, and proteins. Evo is capable of both prediction tasks and generative design, from molecular to whole genome scale.

Component specific responses of the microbiomes to common chemical stressors in the human food chain biorxiv.org/content/10.110… is out... Chemical stressors decreased microbiome diversity in soil and animal, but not in other microbiomes.

Open position: Bioinformatics / Biostatistics Staff scientist in Clinical Microbiology linkedin.com/pulse/bioinfor… via LinkedIn

One of the reasons I've been quiet on Twitter for a few months is because I've been working on something big - something I'm really happy to share now! Pathoplexus.org A new, open-source database for pathogen sequence sharing. 👐🧬🌎 1/12

"Why does the brain need billions of neurons to process 10 bits/second? Why can we only think about one thing at a time?" by Jieyu Zheng and Markus Meister Caltech Neuron cell.com/neuron/fulltex…