Published in 2009, bwa-aln is one of the oldest short-read aligners. It remains a popular choice for aligning ancient DNA reads. The following blog post explains the algorithmic reasons. lh3.github.io/2024/09/28/why…

RiboSnake – a user-friendly, robust, reproducible, multipurpose and documentation-extensive pipeline for 16S rRNA gene microbiome analysis. #16S #Bioinformatics #Snakemake #Pipeline #GIGAbyte gigabytejournal.com/articles/132

Looking for a PhD? Interested in epigenetics, imprinting and transposons? Come join the Jennifer Frost and RJ Oakey labs for our project in the 2025 KCL MRC DTP scheme, applications are now open! Link to project: kcl-mrcdtp.com/project/the-ro… King's College London Media Research Center #MRCDTP25

PhD and Postdoc Opportunities in the Nichols Lab at the University of Denver. If you are interested in cell biology and evolution, please contact me directly at the email address listed in the Ad:

Benchmarks on DNA extraction methods for long-read #metagenomic sequencing of soil: QIAGEN PowerSoil Pro was ranked best! Note - trace inhibitors can interfere with sequencing and may be platform specific; this was not addressed here (ran ONT only). doi.org/10.1099/acmi.0…

🌱🍄Current Review Alert! nawaraj dulal and Richard A. Wilson Wilson Lab UNL describe how unconventional effector secretion from plant fungal pathogens, including Magnaporthe oryzae and Phytophthora infestans, is driven by codon usage bias. Learn more here: doi.org/10.1094/MPMI-1…

35S:RUBY, one of the most popular plasmids at Addgene, is featured in nature . A great tool for crop engineering, basic research, and teaching of plant genetics. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Directed evolution of a plant immune receptor for broad spectrum recognition of pathogen effectors biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Mind-blowing study from Julia Vorholt's lab. They initiated bacterial endosymbiosis in a fungus and followed the system as it became more stable, closer to 'symbiosis'. nature.com/articles/s4158…

new tool: vcfexpress let's user apply lua expressions to filter/modify a VCF and optionally to write templated output: github.com/brentp/vcfexpr… it's fast. feedback appreciated. Work with Aaron Quinlan

Harnessing RNA interference for the control of Fusarium species: A critical review! bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Long read ⁦Oxford Nanopore⁩ data from 1k genome project - analysed and also available for everyone to have fun with! search.app/cLvwtcVYwuVFpE…

"10,000 years of agriculture? Well, bless y'alls hearts, humans!" - Ants

So true…

Today Ma'ayan Lab updated #Enrichr maayanlab.cloud/Enrichr/ with a new version of the #KinaseLibrary kinase-library.phosphosite.org/site combining data from these two papers: nature.com/articles/s4158… & nature.com/articles/s4158… #kinome #cellsignaling #CPTAC #CancerResearch

We just launched Circa 2.0! Create beautiful circos plots in minutes, without a single line of code. You can try it for free with sample data now! circa.omgenomics.com

How Neural Networks are Trained:

Our amazing technician is moving on to graduate school, so we are looking for a new research assistant to study gene expression and RNA biology in Arabidopsis and crops! Please retweet. Many thanks! jobs.plantae.org/jobs/20687290/…

A reminder: UNC-Chapel Hill Chapel Hill’s UNC_Biology starts evaluating applications for a cluster of tenure track Assistant Professors: two in Plant Molecular Biology and one in Plant Evolutionary Biology this Friday so get your apps in and tell your friends! unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/288640

Join ASPB in welcoming Hong Ma as ASPB President 👏 👏 👏 Hong's term started Oct 1. His focus during his term: supporting ECRs, promoting diversity in ASPB leadership, and building diverse community. Read more: buff.ly/3Y14KZ7 @HuckInstitutes Penn State