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Where did the pandemic begin? Was it from nature or a lab? Since the start, this fundamental question has gone unanswered. Until now. Out in Science Magazine: SARS-CoV-2 emerged into humans via the live animal trade at the Huanan Seafood Market. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Can we have a Journal for Halfway Done, Abandoned Papers? In the abstract, you explain why you quit working on it.

Does your iwi, hapū or marae have a freshwater fisheries kaupapa that needs some pūtea? Apply now for the Tiaki Wai Fund. Applications will remain open until the fund is fully allocated, download the guidelines and application form here: waimaori.maori.nz/tiaki-wai-fund #applynow

Congratulations all, a manuscript from the PhD thesis of Rose Collis, with more to come! Adrian Cookson, sara, Dr. Anne Midwinter @[email protected] Massey University Natural Sciences at Massey frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Coming very soon, I'm stoked. 🤓

... check out and discuss Mantas' and Rasmus Kirkegaard recent work to demonstrate that Oxford Nanopore R10.4 enable "perfect" microbial genomes without short-read sequencing - the flood of HQ MAGs is coming! 2/2 nature.com/articles/s4159…

Interested in using Oxford Nanopore technology for identifying zoonoses and their pangenomes from retail poultry? Fully funded scholarship with bench-fees available for PhD with me and Patrick Biggs at Hopkirk Research Institute. Get in touch for more details.

Nanopore sequencing has the potential to detect all known epigenetic modifications. Watch this Knowledge Exchange to learn about recent developments in all-contexts modified base detection, including efforts towards 6mA detection and more. Register here: bit.ly/3pBReui

KIPEs3: Automatic annotation of biosynthesis pathways doi.org/10.1101/2022.0… Integrating gene annotation with orthology inference at scale doi.org/10.1101/2022.0… #Bioinformatics #Genomics

Found out recently that you can download data from GenBank via the command-line! To that end, here's a short tutorial on how to download data from SRA, ENA and GenBank from the comfort of the Linux command-line :) tomjenkins.netlify.app/tutorials/r-do… #AcademicChatter #Bioinformatics

ggcoverage: an R package to visualize and annotate genome coverage for NGS data github.com/showteeth/ggco… #Rstats #Bioinformatics #Genomics

Are you 'Excited to share my new paper!' Harsh truth: Most people don't care 5 tips on how to tweet about your new paper to get real engagement OpenAcademics PhD_Genie PhD Voice - Independently Run Academic Chatter™

Really cool talk by Rasmus Kirkegaard. Amazing to see how much Nanopore reads have improved and how close we are to short-read free metagenomics :) #genomesmicrobiomes22

File under: "very cool...but not in a good way" Recent O-antigen diversification masks highly pathogenic STEC O104:H4 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New #epi2melabs blog post showing how we use Nextflow and kraken2 to enable real-time metagenomic classification of Oxford Nanopore sequencing experiments. labs.epi2me.io/progressive-kr…

A graph-based approach for the visualisation and analysis of bacterial pangenomes dlvr.it/SZm3ch

bbc.com/news/world-asi… ...prescriptions for broad-spectrum antibiotics - drugs that should be reserved for tackling the most serious, hard-to-treat bacterial infections - comprise a whopping 75% of all prescriptions issued in India's hospitals...

'Excitingly, LSK114 kit with flow cell R10.4.1 released in London Calling 2022 not only maintains the accuracy of 99%, but also improves the sequencing yield to the same level or even more as LSK109 kit with flow cell R9.4.1': bit.ly/3rWTNbs

Orkney Black Guillemot breaks longevity record rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/Ork… This, and other new longevity records, set in 2022 are in the BTOs latest ringing and nest recording report rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/Ork…

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