GenoVi: an open-source automated circular genome visualizer for bacteria and archaea journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a…

Presenting sylph (github.com/bluenote-1577/…), a fast, precise metagenomic profiler. Work done with Yun William Yu. sylph is highly accurate at the species level and takes ~1 minute and 16 GB RAM to profile against 85k prokaryotes and 2.9 million viral genomes. 1/10

Final day of #Anvio workshop at Quadram Institute. Today we will focus on metabolism thanks to Iva Veseli that is now summarising the pain that #annotation brings to metagenomics workflows. #MerenLab #Metagenomics #Bioinformatics

We had a blast with Iva and Florian #MerenLab Looking forward to meeting you again! Thanks a million ⭐️

WOW! She did it! Quadram Institute

📣 We are Hiring! We are looking for a senior bioinformatician to join our great team. ⚒️ Our tools: Galaxy, Nextflow, containers, etc 🔬 Our science: microbial genomics, transcriptome, etc 🖐️ Our team: simply great Please share :) quadram.ac.uk/vacancies/bioi…

A brilliant workshop on Horizon Europe just started at Quadram Institute — director Ian Charles kicking off #QIBhorizon24 1/2

Join our Core Bioinformatics team to support the institute's research with reproducible workflows and managing web-based platforms like Galaxy project 🌐 💷 £43,550 to £54,900 🗓️ Apply by 2 July 2024 ➡️ buff.ly/3X31ei1

⏰ Closing soon! We’re looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Bioinformatics Programmer to join our Core Bioinformatics team. 💷 £43,550 to £54,900 🗓️ Apply by 2 July 2024 ➡️ buff.ly/3VlKEZH

Our massive project "Microflora Danica: the atlas of Danish environmental microbiomes" is online! 5 years ago Per Halkjær Nielsen and I started the project of our dreams! To reveal the microbes of an entire country! But, why? 🧵Read on 1/ biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The new more compact and more efficient #NCBIBLAST core_nt database is available for download (ow.ly/fh9P50SJmvb)! At 64 volumes, core_nt is less than half the size of nt, but provides nearly equivalent results. Read more: ow.ly/Nkst50SJmv9

Great opportunity for a proven leader with the skills to build a national data infrastructure from the ground up. Come and lead a UKRI £34M project to transform how biological research science data is managed, analysed and shared with BioFAIR UK

Interested in the absolute quantification of bacterial strains in fecal samples? My group has used qPCR for more than 10 years with good success, and we now published a step-by-step protocol for the design of strain-specific qPCR assays in Microbiome. doi.org/10.1186/s40168…

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

📻 Yesterday afternoon Dr Matthew Gilmour was on BBC Norfolk talking about the new AMAST Network which is setting sail to understand and tackle how antimicrobial resistance impacts UK food production from farm to fork 🦠 Listen from 1:40:50 ▶️ buff.ly/4hyhpfp

Gene count estimation with pytximport enables reproducible analysis of bulk RNA sequencing data in Python academic.oup.com/bioinformatics… 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/complextissue/…

A new state-of-the-art Data Centre at Norwich Research Park Park has been given the green light for construction 🟢 buff.ly/3OIb8R0

Extracting NCBI SRA files with fasterq-dump can require 17x the size of the accession while decompressing. Our new tool xsra extracts sequences at 5x throughput with significantly less disk usage, built-in compression, and optional BINSEQ outputs github.com/arcInstitute/x…