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Heads up, the GC and all-context models in dorado v0.8 basecaller are swapped around. Leaving this here as a note for others and for me to reference later in any future reviews or advice.

New research on the Global Impacts of Bird Extinctions 🌍🦜🦤 "The global loss of avian functional and phylogenetic diversity from anthropogenic extinctions" led by Tom Mathews and published in Science Magazine. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… A summary of our findings below 🧵(1/9)

The final piece of work from my PhD on koala MHC diversity, out now in immunogenetics. We show what is possible with a large number of high coverage genomes Prof Carolyn Hogg Kathy Belov @ellemclennan link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Congratulations Dr Nathan Kenny Nathan Kenny, who has won a 2024 University of Otago Early Career Research Award! His research focus is the molecular origins of resilience to the effects of climate change in the green-lipped mussel, Perna canaliculus. otago.ac.nz/news/newsroom/…

This is an old one from the #phytools blog archive -- but here's how to use phytools::phylo.to.map with a custom (e.g., high-resolution) shape file base map: blog.phytools.org/2016/07/update….

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Our 2024 eBird/Clements Taxonomy update is dropping TOMORROW! It is set to include: - 3 newly-described species - 141 species gained because of splits - 16 species lost through lumps Read more and let us know what you're most excited for below! buff.ly/3NztKBW

Detectability of runs of homozygosity is influenced by analysis parameters and population-specific demographic history journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a…

Early bird registration closes Tue 5th November #OHA2024 The 10th #OneHealth Aotearoa Symposium 📅3-4 December 2024 📍University of Otago Wellington 💻#AntimicrobialResistance, climate change, Te Ao Māori & more! Link: otago.ac.nz/conference/one…

Oarfish v0.6.5 is out github.com/COMBINE-lab/oa…! v0.6.4 added optional output of per-read assignment probabilities. v0.6.5 cleans up that output a bit, bumps to the newest minimap2-rs crate (thanks Joseph) & now accepts uBAM as input in raw read mode!

LRGE: Genome size estimation from long read overlaps biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Fakeminimap2 now supports interactive visualization of results. Just for fun, but kinda useful. Watch until the end. Built with Rust & Ratatui Try it out! Here, until GitHub allows PRs again: github.com/jguhlin/minima… #rust #rustlang #bioinformatics #genomics #ratatui

Minimap2-rs v0.1.22 has released! This only fixes a memory segfault under certain conditions. I have added some better examples for using mpsc channels or rayon. github.com/jguhlin/minima… #rust #rustlang #bioinformatics #genomics #nanopore #pacbio

Minimap2-rs 0.1.23 released! Major fix cloning aligners memory leak. New features to easily set flags for Map/Idx options! Find it in the usual places: crates.io/crates/minimap2 github.com/jguhlin/minima… #rust #rustlang #nanopore #pacbio #longread #genomics #bioinformatics

Bioinformatics meets TUIs = 🔥 🦀 minimap2-rs: Rust bindings to the Minimap2 library for genomic or protein alignment. 🐭 Supports interactive visualization of results with Ratatui ⭐ GitHub: github.com/jguhlin/minima… by Joseph #rustlang #ratatui #tui

Minimappers2 is updated. This is the python port of minimap2-rs, allowing easy multithreading and outputs directly to dataframes. See the example notebook here: colab.research.google.com/drive/1S6Ioq84… And PyPi page here: pypi.org/project/minima… #python #rust #rustlang #bioinformatics

I have relocated to the north island! Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland)! Now my desk and PC setup, no longer on a laptop. The move was absolute hell. I recommend against Wisemove for long-distance moves. More coming, but right now celebrating being back to full working capacity!