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#biodata18 Related to the last talk: ccb.jhu.edu/data/eupathDB/

Took a lot of effort but Kraken 2 is finally out (and my last name is Lu, not Wu) Genome Biology

I have decided that maybe social distancing time would be the best time to start tweeting about my cats.

dropped an uncooked piece of macaroni yesterday and MaxTheCat has decided its his new toy #CatsOfTheQuarantine #CatsOfTwitter

I took MaxTheCat outside for a quick walk around the block, carrying him in a cat bubble. and now he wont stop meowing at the front door -_-

I regret introducing my cat to fresh air.

Checkout my new paper on #bioRxiv, showing how Kraken 2 (and Bracken) are much faster/more accurate than Qiime2 at 16S analysis :) "Ultrafast and accurate 16S microbial community analysis using Kraken 2" biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… Steven Salzberg 💙💛

For the non-sciency people, have a photo of me and my social distancing buddy out on a quick walk around the block :)

Max the cat vs Squirrel

Our Kraken2 protocol paper is out, describing how to do microbiome analysis and pathogen detection, led by Jen Lu and @thesteinegger, and others tagged in Martin's tweet. Nice work Jen and Martin!

Through an amazing collaborative effort by all of the co-authors, our Kraken protocols paper has been published: nature.com/articles/s4159… Thanks especially to Natalia Rincon and @thesteinegger for heading up this effort with me!

A re-analysis of multiple studies that asserted the role of bacteria in cancer raises questions at to the veracity of the findings and the link biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Steven Salzberg 💙💛 Abraham Yuchen Ge and colleagues

Major, fatal errors found in the data and methods of a 2020 paper in nature, including millions of reads mis-identified as bacteria. The "cancer microbiome" in this study was simply not there. @abrahamgihawi Mihaela Pertea Yuchen Ge Jen Lu biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

interesting to see that Rob Knight almost admits that the results in their original 2020 paper were wrong, saying “it matters much more that those distinguishing sequences exist rather than what you call them.” Uh, no. Facts matter in science (or @nature 😅)

Our paper debunking the 2020 cancer microbiome results is now published, in mBio. We'll see if @nature (or the authors) will retract these deeply flawed results. h/t Professor Booty PhD Eric Topol journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

Preparing blessings bags for MOMS (Mothers of Murders Sons and Daughters) for #GivingTuesday #Thread #conversationthread :) Let's do this!

My article 'Bracken: estimating species abundance in metagenomics data', written with Steven Salzberg 💙💛 and Florian Breitwieser was one of the top 5 most viewed #Bioinformatics and #ComputationalBiology articles published in PeerJ Publishing journal in 2017! 😊 peerj.com/articles/cs-10…