Looking at bioinformaticians’ profiles these days, you'd think everyone has decades of experience in cutting-edge single-cell and AI-driven bioinformatics. But something’s missing… 👇

❗BIG SURVEY: Research & teaching pressure + Harsh criticism + Unreasonable expectations 🟰 PhD students with anxiety and depression. It is a VERY important study. Because it indirectly shows the role of mentorship. [STUDY: Self-selecting survey, to which 2,161 graduate

Excited to share our new nature article on gut microbiome research! Our consensus statement sets robust guidelines for determining causality within gut microbiome studies and explores novel therapeutic opportunities. nature.com/articles/s4157…

geneviewer - Gene Cluster Visualizations in R. Imports data from GenBank, FASTA, and GFF files, performs BlastP and MUMmer alignments, and displays results on gene arrow maps. github.com/nvelden/genevi… #Rstats

The Secret to Recreating Any Bioinformatics Figure (It’s easier than You Think). The other day, I was on Bioinformatics subReddit and saw someone ask how to generate the figure below

Very nice poster showing genetic engineering of Arabidopsis flowers by Nick Desnoyer - and great for teaching and outreach Evolution of Plant Sexual Reproduction

If you are interested in phage satellites, we hope you'll enjoy this. Fun collaboration with the Rocha, Seed, Bikard, and Chen labs! nature.com/articles/s4157…

Editing 14 genes is no small feat, but I am not seeing enough evidence that "it is a dire wolf". Our community needs to communicate better to the public, now mor than ever, and imo that includes not exaggerating what we can deliver.

The 10 types of clustering that all data scientists need to know. Let's dive in:

Excited to share something with you all later this week… 🧫🦠🍜👀

🚨 Very excited to finally say… 🚨 The story of Noodlococcus - the contaminant that started ContamClub - is available to read 📖🍜🦠 Check it out ➡️ doi.org/10.1101/2025.0… 1/15 🧵

🍜🧬 Pan-fried noodles 🤣🤣🤣 Big shoutout to Contamination Club for cooking up the story of Noodlococcus We’re proud to have been part of the journey — from mystery microbe to full-genome feast 👨‍🍳🧫 📖 Full recipe available ➡️ biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #MicrobialMysteries

Absence of Wolbachia in the sub-Antarctic midge, led by Octavia Brayley at UoB Biosciences funded by Natural Environment Research Council CENTA. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

We’ll be hosting the Bioinformatics Summer Workshop from August 11–15. The workshop is completely free and held 100% online. If you are interested, please go ahead and register: sites.google.com/view/bioinfowo…

Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.

According to this #JournalSpectrum study, a western diet alone can increase the presence of antibiotic resistance genes within the gut microbiome. Such insights could someday inform personalized antibiotic regimens based on an individual’s gut resistome. asm.social/2x2

In #JBacteriology: 6 new genomes of Pseudomonas paraeruginosa, a new species recently reported as distinct from P. aeruginosa. The species is notably resistant to last-line antibiotics and uses an alternative virulence strategy based on exolysin. asm.social/2xd

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Now published! 🎉🧫🍜 doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0…