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Python 3.10 is out, every damn programmer is in love with the new structural pattern matching. But for anyone teaching python out there, the new error messages are what's up. (Before/After)

ICTV's long-anticipated Computational Virus Taxonomy Challenge is out! Bioinformaticians are asked to classify unknown virus sequences and contribute to making Virus Taxonomy more reproducible. See: ictv-vbeg.github.io/ICTV-TaxonomyC… - please RT, tell your bioinformaticians and colleagues!

Our preprint on fair reuse of public microbiome data is out as of yesterday on bioRxiv! 🔥 Check it out here: shorturl.at/7uRkM We (ᴀʟᴇx ᴘʀᴏʙꜱᴛ, @FolkerMeyer, Laura Hug, @environmicrobio, Moraru phages & Anke Heyder) crucially thank the Data Reuse Consortium!!

The Computational Biology group at Agribio in beautiful Melbourne hosts several ARC Ph.D scholarships (via La Trobe University); please EOI (forms.office.com/r/UCYGDYRmbq) if excited abt applying state-of-art data sciences to enhancing breeding for productive and resilient animals!

Awesome miniature robotic lab display at MGI's Festival of Multi-Omics in Melbourne (tea for scale; no banana on hand)

Remember - You should register to VEGA24 now because it will be a really nice meeting and because if you wait too long, you won't get the early-bird rate.. We also still have plenty of space for short talk that will be selected from abstracts, so get these ready !

Excited to share Vclust! It's a fast and accurate tool for calculating intergenomic similarities (like ANI) and clustering virus/#phage genomes/contigs according to ICTV and MIUViG standards. 💻 Tool: github.com/refresh-bio/vc… 📄 Preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Thread! 1/6 ↓

A great opportunity to work with our group Agriculture Victoria DEECA Victoria on an exciting project developing smart surveillance tools for emergency animal diseases - very relevant right now! linkedin.com/jobs/view/3955…

We are delighted to share with you that 11th International Symposium on Avian Influenza will be 24-25 June 2025 in St. John’s, Canada. We are looking forward to getting everyone together in one room to share their experiences and the latest science. AvianInfluenzaSymposium.com

If you work with metagenomes (or metatranscriptomes), would like to explore what viruses/phages are in your datasets, but don't know where to start, we have (an) MVP for you now \o/ Really happy to see this one published, and also welcoming feedback/suggestion of improvement!

Welcome back! VEuPathDB resources are back online today! We will continue to provide bioinformatics services under a new organizational structure. Read more here: veupathdb.org/veupathdb/app/…

Out today, the recipe for pathogen genomics implementation in Australia. 📜 1 tbsp of strong existing collaborations, 2 tbsp governance agreements, 1 tbsp computational infrastructure, and 10 tbsp of belief in the cause. See below for instructions! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Excited to share the first paper from the PhD of Mikaela Bell . Mikaela meticulously re-created the Australian insect-specific alphavirus, Yada Yada virus – one of only 5 insect-specific alphaviruses discovered to date. nature.com/articles/s4429…

Always a delight to work with Jody Peters (Hobson-Peters) , Mikaela G. Bell and her network at University of Queensland SCMB EMCR Group . A great collaborative output for applying high-throughput sequencing to publicly funded arbovirus surveillance programs Jana Batovska has gone to Bluesky nature.com/articles/s4429…

Congratulations Michelle Wille, member of the National Avian Influenza Wild Bird (NAIWB) Surveillance Program Steering Group, for being awarded a 2024 Environmental Biosecurity Award 🏆 Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry #AusBioAwards #biosecurity #science

Check out our new paper investigating the co-circulation of several arboviruses in 🦟from southeast Australia using qRT-PCR and whole genome sequencing. We present significant insights on arbovirus diversity and their geographic distribution in Australia. academic.oup.com/ve/advance-art…