Let’s give a big Texas welcome to this year's Texas Public Health Summit lineup of speakers and panelists. Join this group of experts who will discuss zoonotic diseases on 9/25. 🔗: tephi.texas.gov/txphs. #TXPHS24

#Bioinformatics Does anyone have experience using mappy (minimap2 python bindings) to align PAIRED-END reads. I can't quite figure out the syntax. No problem with streaming minimap2 stdout from a subprocess into pysam, but it seems more pythonic to use mappy...

Very excited to share our preprint on "Culture-Independent Meta-Pangenomics Enabled by Long-Read Metagenomics Reveals Novel Associations with Pediatric Undernutrition". #metagenomics #undernutrition #malnutrition #PacBio #nanopore #illumina #pangenome papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

The complete, circular bacterial genomes assembled by Jake and co are amazing. This manuscript is the future of microbiome research.

Opinion: It’s time to take a new approach to monitoring the H5N1 outbreak in dairy cows. trib.al/ITbr5Ne

Great opportunity here

A great opportunity for a PhD or postdoc #AcademicChatter at BCMHouston #microbiology #ecology #virology with Mike Tisza

See our preprint on systematic hotspot annotation! In addition to hotspot analysis, we provide precomputed iLund4u databases and two search modes: find if your query proteins are encoded in hotspots or map hotspots to a single phage/plasmid sequence. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Wonderful article here for anyone who is curious about the details of how we detect viruses in wastewater via sequencing, including H5N1 influenza

Glad to share our preprint 🏃**LongTrack**: long read metagenomics-based precise tracking of bacterial strains (and their genomic changes!) after fecal microbiota transplantation. A 4+ years journey and tour de force by ** Yu Fan ** and team. A long 🧵 💩Fecal microbiota

With a growing team (me + 3!) bustling around the lab, Tisza Lab needed a home on the internet. Check out our website 👇 tiszalab.github.io

Bioinformatics sounds exciting, right? Until you hit the first roadblock: tool installation. Even after 12 years in the field, setting up tools on a Mac with an M3 chip can feel like solving a puzzle. 🧵

I agree that this stuff stinks. Ming "Tommy" Tang, try using "--platform osx-64" flag when creating a new conda env (or mamba env) even if you have osx-arm64. It tends to work for me.

Reminder that Texas is STILL the only state (afaik) that conducts agnostic virome sequencing of municipal wastewater. This allows extremely sensitive detection of novel threats. This could be done nationwide. Why isn't it?

This study helps to lay the groundwork for therapeutics and diagnostics leveraging the #microbiome and its constituents. Mike Tisza Sara Cregeen BCM Microbiome BCMHouston Nature Microbiology #phages #DiabetesType1 blogs.bcm.edu/2025/02/25/fro…