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Castanet: A pipeline for rapid analysis of targeted multi-pathogen genomic data. #PathogensGenomicData #Bioinformatics academic.oup.com/bioinformatics…

I'm going to be advertising a PhD studentship (open to international students) working on long read pangenome / assembly algorithms in bacteria. Would suit someone with maths/compsci background. Aptitude and interest more important than experience. Advert to follow. Pls RT!

G2PT: Genotype-to-Phenotype Transformer: Mechanistic genotype-phenotype translation using hierarchical transformers biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

#DRAGEN Illumina method fully described & benchmarked out in Nature Biotechnology: nature.com/articles/s4158… Graph genome based detection of SNV, STR, SV, CNV all in 30 min! Improvements in all variants! Huge thanks to Severine Catreux Rami mehio Sairam Behera BCM HGSC #Bioinformatics 1/5

Kanpig: K-mer analysis of long-read alignment pileups for structural variant genotyping biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Muscle-3D: scalable multiple protein structure alignment 1. Muscle-3D introduces a new approach to scalable multiple structure alignment (MStA), combining sequence representation and alignment techniques from Muscle5, capable of scaling to thousands of protein structures. 2.

Our latest preprint is online: “Population genomics and molecular epidemiology of wheat powdery mildew in Europe”. Thank to first author Jigisha and to the many collaborators that contributed to this study! 1/8 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I am extremely happy to see the first major part of my PhD work published in Nature Microbiology. Many thanks to @VandijckLab, gabaldonlab, Judith Berman 💔, Giorgio Boccarella, @pietstandaard, Katrien Lagrou, Hans Steenackers and all others involved! nature.com/articles/s4156…

OMAnnotator: a novel approach to building an annotated consensus genome sequence biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_bioinfo

The capability for producing "mirror life" is out there and poses danger. When some scientists who worked on this became aware, they stopped pursuing it, and co-authored this piece, along with over 30 leading scientists—a Science Magazine policy forum that lays out the risks

OrthoHMM: Improved Inference of Ortholog Groups using Hidden Markov Models biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_bioinfo

We are happy to announce that the MaAslin3 manuscript is now available on bioRxiv! Check it out and feel free to post feedback on our forums! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

AI can be found almost everywhere, including in research. But, how do we ensure we are using #ExplainableAI so that these models are trustworthy and reliable? 👨‍💻 Recently, experts came together to discuss this. Read their insights here ⤵️ sangerinstitute.blog/2024/12/18/how…

GenomeDelta: detecting recent transposable element invasions without repeat library genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Informeasure: an R/bioconductor package for quantifying nonlinear dependence between variables in biological networks from an information theory perspective bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Fascinating insights into #Fusarium oxysporum! A new study by Michael F Seidl and colleagues leverages reference-free pangenome variation to uncover the #evolution of accessory chromosomes highlighting their role in host specificity & horizontal transfer. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Learning the fitness dynamics of pathogens from phylogenies | Nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

FastOMA is out now in Nature Methods 🎉: nature.com/articles/s4159… A new orthology inference algorithm that scales linearly and is highly accurate. FastOMA can process all >2000 eukaryotic UniProt ref proteomes <24 hours 🚀. Try it out at github.com/DessimozLab/fa…

Yesterday I successfully defended my thesis. Thank you to Rhys Farrer and Chris Knight for a great viva and thank you to all of @MFIG for a brilliant 4 years 😊🎉