Our latest chapter of the Asgard saga is finally published in @nature! See nature.com/articles/s4158… #OpenAccess See separate twitter threads by lead authors @eme_laura and Daniel Tamarit for background info. Below a thread on the history of the Tree of Life .

I am very happy to report that the years of work we put into studying the ecology and evolution of a single cryptic human gut plasmid is now nicely summarized in a paper that just appeared in Cell: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Here is a 🧵 to cover some take home messages.

"If I don't get my sleep my brain doesn't work!" Nobel Prize laureate Didier Queloz tells students what he does outside the lab to keep his mind working. #NobelPrize

Human eye anatomy #neuroscience

Phylogenetically and structurally diverse reductive dehalogenases link biogeochemical cycles in deep-sea cold seeps biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

What high-performance language to learn in bioinformatics? I have been asked many times on the question, so I decided to write down my thought in a blog post. This is going to be controversial. lh3.github.io/2024/03/05/wha…

Excited to share our surprising discovery of a highly novel photosynthetic bacterium from #Boreal #Shield #lakes in Canada! Now published in nature , over six years after our first enrichment culture A long thread 🧵 ⬇️ 1/ nature.com/articles/s4158…

It’s important to be a good human being before being a good scientist

ISME and the Alma Dal Co Foundation are delighted to announce the renaming of the ISME Early Career Award to the ISME Alma Dal Co Award to commemorate the life and work of Alma Dal Co (1989 - 2022). 🔗 isme-microbes.org/news-dalco-awa…

SPAdes 4.0 is released! github.com/ablab/spades/r… Since 2022 SPAdes is not related to any institution and is maintained by the SPAdes team - an international group of volunteers. Although this might be the last major release, we strongly intend to continue supporting our users!

海底から培養したアーキア「MK-D1株」に学名をつけた論文が出版されました！ 分類学的に激レアであることから、生物の最上位分類階級である新しい「界」の提案も同時に行い、認定されました。 microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa…

SeqKit2: A Swiss army knife for sequence and alignment processing. It suit for nanopore data! #nanopore doi.org/10.1002/imt2.1…

tax_myPHAGE, a script for classifying your double-stranded DNA phages. It assignin taxonomy to phages at the genus and species levels following ICTV standards. Determines the closest relatives of a query within the ICTV-classified genomes. thephage.xyz/2024/08/11/tax…

Victor Ambros was denied tenure at Harvard. But he was not a usual PI. The Harvard Crimson describes: 1⃣ He took an especially hands-on role in mentorship: “Duan recalled the experience of arriving in the U.S. for his Ph.D. as a non-native English speaker. Ambros spent time

Guess what? Mitochondria are weirder than we thought

Check out some brand new biomedical tech – crazy cool, in my own, humble but admittedly biased opinion – introduced in our paper (link below), published today in nature, titled “Millimetre-scale, bioresorbable optoelectronic systems for electrotherapy,” where we describe the

Genome-resolved transcriptomics reveals novel PCE-dehalogenating bacteria from Aarhus Bay sediments journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.11…

EvoWeaver: large-scale prediction of gene functional associations from coevolutionary signals nature.com/articles/s4146…

The article "Phagentherapie in Deutschland – Update 2025" dives into Germany's current #PhageTherapy landscape. rdcu.be/emZhD At the Fraunhofer IZI we innovate to solve the #AntibioticResistance crisis. tinyurl.com/mpf5u8sf Belinda Loh

At Tatta Bio, we have been thinking deeply about the sequence-to-function problem. We believe that before AI can power functional prediction, we first need to rethink how we curate, manage, and share sequence data. Here, we share our initial ideas on what we are building next: