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Strobealign v0.15.0 is released: (1) Allows more indexed contigs (2^32), (2) adds a mode --mcs which increase accuracy (paper on mcs biorxiv.org/content/10.110…). --mcs is still non-default in this release until we optimize it a bit more. Full changelog here github.com/ksahlin/strobe…

check out GLBIO 2025: proceedings submissions due Feb 3, 2025. Proceedings papers will be published in Bioinformatics Advances.

The paper featuring the new "Open-Closed Mod-Minimizer" sampling has been accepted to Algorithms for Molecular Biology! Congrats to Ragnar {Groot Koerkamp} 🦋 and Daniel Liu 🥳

We have updated all Logan contigs, now at version 1.1! Contiguity has been much improved (2x) and a duplicated k-mers bug has been fixed. More information and changelog here: github.com/IndexThePlanet…

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Thrilled to finally debut my lab site 🎉: mbio.info — which stands for Microbial Bioinformatics, a domain I purchased 9 years ago and has been waiting for this moment ever since!"

Long Read Transcriptomics Summer School 14–17 July | Earlham Institute Join us for a 4-day deep dive into long-read RNA technologies and their applications! On Day 2, I’ll teach on structural annotation, focusing on integrating transcriptomics data with ab initio predictions.

Strobealign v0.16.0 has been released. It comes with both runtime and accuracy improvements. Full changelog here github.com/ksahlin/strobe…

We are looking for an Associate professor in Mathematical statistics. Deadline to apply is June 1, 2025. More information: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/jo…

Slides from my talk (with Kamil Jaron) on an history of k-mers in bioinformatics: rayan.chikhi.name/pdf/2025-kmers…

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.

🧵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.