Excited to introduce LiftOn – an open-source tool for accurate liftover of genome annotations (GFF) across assemblies. 🚀 👉 Code &community: github.com/Kuanhao-Chao/L… It’s been incredibly rewarding building this for the genomics community. Thank you to all collaborators/friends!

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Harpy: a pipeline for processing haplotagging linked-read data academic.oup.com/bioinformatics… 🧬🖥️🧪 code github.com/pdimens/harpy docs pdimens.github.io/harpy/

We are happy to share our recent paper on "Australian chickpea pangenome" to boost crop productivity. The paper is published in Plant Biotechnology Journal and available at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pb… . This article reports high-quality genome assemblies and annotations for 15 leading

🔔 This Monday, June 23rd at 12:00 CEST: 🌱 Target Capture Sequencing Approaches to the Study of Plant Evolution Join us live: youtube.com/live/0wfzw_NPe… #TargetCapture #Genomics #PlantEvolution #evolutionarygenomics #biodiversity #research #researchseminar

Mumemto: efficient maximal matching across pangenomes genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/vikshiv/mumemto

FastGA: Fast Genome Alignment biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/thegenemyers/F…

The first edition of the book is beautifully made. “CODE: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software” by Charles Petzold

Agptools: a utility suite for editing genome assemblies. #GenomeAssembly #AssemblyEditing #AGPfiles #Genomics #Bioinformatics academic.oup.com/bioinformatics…

Our #genome #bioinformatics course is for PhD students and post-doctoral researchers who are starting to use high-throughput sequencing technologies and bioinformatics in their research. Apply by 3 Aug, funding available: ebi.ac.uk/training/event…

Interested in co-designing a fully funded PhD project with vorontsovams.bsky.social Kew and me on Urochloa plant biodiversity, evolution, morphology and genomics? Building on exciting work on the forage grass by Lizo Masters academic.oup.com/aob/article/13…

Postdoc position opening in my group! Research projects: pangenomes for diverse organisms, genome evolution, biocomputing, language models. Please reach out if interested!

SVPG: A pangenome-based structural variant detection approach and rapid augmentation of pangenome graphs with new samples biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🚨 All vacancies for our new project on meiotic recombination in crops are now online (3x PhD, 1 postdoc)🌾Check vacancies at the jobsites of the different partners Faculty of Bioscience Engineering UGent ILVO KU Leuven 👇 Deadlines ranging fro August 3 to 17!

Very glad to see this preprint by Heng Li and @meyersonlab confirming our finding of artifactual fold-back INV in long reads (Fig S1 in our Nature Methods paper presenting #SAVANA, which filters such artifacts to improve SV calling, hence their relevance nature.com/articles/s4159…

🚨 We're looking for a #postdoc to join our team at the Center for Bioenergy Innovation at Oak Ridge National Labs, TN 🚨 Project: Advance poplar bioenergy by understanding adaptive trait/genomic variation using breeding, pop gen, and bioinformatics Apply by 18-Aug

Excited to share our new preprint on detecting foldback artifacts in long reads with my advisors Matthew Meyerson and Heng Li! Stop by poster C-180 on Wednesday at ISMB/ECCB2025 to learn more and chat!

MKDESIGNER and TASEQ: a set of tools for plant genotyping by targeted amplicon sequencing. #PlantGenotyping #TargetedAmpliconsSequencing #Bioinformatics #BMCbioinformatics bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

PEANUT: Pathway Enrichment Analysis through Network Utilization. #PathwayEnrichment #Bioinformatics academic.oup.com/bioinformatics…

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