1/4 Hash functions in genomic sequence analysis (tinyurl.com/4kk9ccmt) : a new survey written together with Mingfu Shao, Ke Chen, Xiang Li, and Qian Shi. Before submitting it, we are posting it online to get feedback from the community.

We're thrilled to announce that one of our keynote speakers at #WABI2025 will be the inimitable Ben Langmead! wabiconf.github.io/2025/talks/tal…. Ben's keynote is titled "We are what we index; a primer for the Wheeler Graph era", and it's sure to be a whirlwind tour of full-text indexing!

🧵1/n Estimating mutation rates using k-mers is fast—but what happens when repeats dominate the genome? In a new preprint, Haonan Wu, Antonio Blanca, and myself propose a *repeat-aware* estimator that's accurate even in centromeres.

More than 65 researchers are Univ. of Maryland this week for the international Wonderful Algorithms for Bioinformatics conference (#WABI2025), learning about the latest research in algorithmic work, bioinformatics, computational biology and systems biology. go.umd.edu/217e

Prof. Chen Ning Yang, a world-renowned physicist, Nobel Laureate in Physics, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor at Tsinghua University, and Honorary Director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Tsinghua University, passed away in Beijing due to illness