In this exciting new preprint, Warwick Vesztrocy et al use Bgee to show that "the most diverged orthologues display the greatest change in gene expression, thus suggesting that they have a greater functional divergence" biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

EvolCompGen presents: Megan Smith on Using machine learning to accommodate complexity in phylogenetics and population genetics. 📅 Join us for this online seminar on Friday @ 11am EST through iscb.junolive.co Non-ISCB members can register here: iscb.swoogo.com/ISCBnucleus-re…

🎉 The 14th ISCB #Wikipedia Competition is here! Students and postdocs are invited to create or improve Wiki articles on #ComputationalBiology and ISCB core topics. 🧬 🏆 Prizes include cash awards and a 1-year ISCB membership! 📅 Deadline: May 2, 2025 🔗

Take flight with this landmark 2014 Nature paper by the B10K. Using 363 bird genomes from 92% of avian families, it builds a taxon-rich backbone tree for future comparative studies. A must-read for the holidays : nature.com/articles/s4158…

The #ELIXIR3DBioInfoCommunity meeting will take place in March 2025 at the BSC-CNS as part of a joint event with 3DSIG. Still some days to submit abstracts for talks/posters related to #structuralbioinformatics More info: iscb.org/3dbioinfo2025/…

Imagine standing in front of experts, sharing your research, and making an impact. Make it a reality—submit your abstract for ISMB/ECCB 2025 by April 17!

Upcoming ISCBacademy webinar, Friday, May 2 at 11am EDT: Billera-Holmes-Vogtmann (BHV) Phylogenetic Tree Space: Algorithms and Applications to Evolutionary Biology Join the webinar by logging in to ISCB Nucleus here: iscb.junolive.co

📍 If you’re not an ISCB member, you can register for access to ISCB Nucleus by visiting this link: iscb.swoogo.com/ISCBnucleus-re…

In 1965, Margaret Dayhoff published the Atlas of Protein Sequence and Structure, which collated the 65 proteins whose amino acid sequences were then known. Inspired by that Atlas, today we are releasing the Dayhoff Atlas of protein sequence data and protein language models.

I’ve always been interested in the stories behind BioNumbers. Textbooks say DNA polymerase, for example, replicates 220 nucleotides per second. But how do we know this? How can one actually measure the speed of a single enzyme? A fast typist, for comparison, types ~80 words per

Selecting a Window Size for Phylogenomic Analyses of Whole Genome Alignments using AIC academic.oup.com/sysbio/advance… Society of Systematic Biologists

The fate of horizontally acquired genes: rapid initial turnover followed by long-term persistence biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_evobio

Good news! The submission deadline for RSG SE-USA's 3rd Computational Biology Symposium has been extended! If you’d like to present at the symposium, see the updated deadline and contact details on the flyer.

Hello, Madrid! Our 2025 European meeting kicks off today. Follow here for live tweets! #JME2025

Next talk: Ben Raphael (Princeton) on "Tumor Evolution over Space and Time" Monday, October 20 at 9:00 AM PDT.

Proud to share a new piece in Scientific American co-authored with the brilliant Lauren Wilson, edited by Kate Wong, and featuring this spectacular depiction of the endless daylight of the Cretaceous summer in Alaska by Chase Stone! scientificamerican.com/article/how-bi…

New bird paper led by the brilliant and talented Andrew Orkney! 🦆 We show that more parental care is associated with more evolutionary freedom in how birds fly.🕊️ royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

One of the most exciting projects of my career, years in the making. Using high-throughput precision genome editing, we mapped the fitness effects of thousands of natural variants—challenging the idea that common variants are inconsequential. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…