This was by far the largest and most collaborative project I’ve ever worked on and what a rewarding experience it was. Thanks to everyone who helped make it happen!

The problem was really fun to work on! And as someone knowing little about genomes at the beginning, I was blessed to have invaluable support & guidance from Todd J Treangen Yunxi Liu Bryce Kille Nicolae Sapoval Yilei Fu! And thank you very much Rice Computer Science for the spotlight! 😁🙏

Happy to announce an open postdoctoral research scientist position in my group Rice Computer Science focused on exciting research questions related to metagenomics & protein structure prediction. Joint position with the amazing Kavraki Lab Interested? apply today! careers.iscb.org/jobs/view/8304

In a new preprint, Ragnar {Groot Koerkamp} 🦋 and I led the derivation of a new lower bound, g’ (red), on k-mer sampling scheme density: - our bound appears to be tight for k ≡ 1 (mod w). - existing schemes are nearly optimal! - mod-minimizers are optimal for large sigma for k ≡ 1 (mod w)