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Justin J.J. van der Hooft @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social · 1h

What a fantastic effort by @elenadelpup.bsky.social who brought together scientists today to discuss the implementation of knowledge graphs to describe and predict plant ☘️ biosynthesis pathways!

Watch our space 😊

Organized with support from @marnixmedema.bsky.social & myself 🙂

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Justin J.J. van der Hooft @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social · 6h

"Open Science is distributing the control of how we define science through identifiers, ontologies, and indeces, thereby empowering the creativity of scientists to create new discoveries" by @egonw.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy #Wageningen 😎

Justin J.J. van der Hooft @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social · 6h

"LinkedData has (almost) no limits!" by @adafede.bsky.social #Wageningen 😎

Justin J.J. van der Hooft @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social · 7h

"Yet another omics!" by @adafede.bsky.social #Wageningen 😎

Justin J.J. van der Hooft @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social · 8h

"What to do with all these data?!" Pierre-Marie Allard in #Wageningen @w-u-r.bsky.social #metabolomics #CompMetabolomics #LinkedData 😎

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Justin J.J. van der Hooft @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social · 9h

Ready for a day full of knowledge graphs to better understand plant ☘️ biosynthesis pathways 😎 and where better to start than in Aurora, the newest education building at the @w-u-r.bsky.social #campus, with a mini-symposium! 🙂 with @elenadelpup.bsky.social & @marnixmedema.bsky.social and many more!

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Justin J.J. van der Hooft @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social · 19h

See you tomorrow at the symposium?!

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Justin J.J. van der Hooft @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social · 19h

Welcome to #Wageningen @adafede.bsky.social, Pierre-Marie Allard, and Tito Damiani! 😎 Looking forward to the mini-symposium on multi-omics & knowledge graphs tomorrow organized by @elenadelpup.bsky.social with support from @marnixmedema.bsky.social & myself! 😊
#metabolomics #CompMetabolomics

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Justin J.J. van der Hooft @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks again to Ana Rotter to invite me to #Piran for #ECMNP25 to highlight #prioritization strategies in #naturalproducts #research! 😎 As I couldn't prioritize the beautiful coastal towns across the Istrial peninsula, I visited several of them 😊
#metabolomics #CompMetabolomics #naturalproducts

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Elisabeth Bik - Perpetrator 5, a fraudulent microbiologist @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 3d

NIH Leadership Is Failing Early Career Researchers

‘These bottlenecks have gotten so bad that some labs have had to ration gloves and paper towels.’

Ian Morgan for TheScientist

www.the-scientist.com/nih-leadersh...

NIH Leadership Is Failing Early Career Researchers

Halted training programs, funding chaos, and hiring freezes jeopardize advancement options for early career researchers.

www.the-scientist.com

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Mitja M. Zdouc @mmzdouc.bsky.social · 17d

Great to see PhyloNaP out! Great tool, and it also connects to mite.bioinformatic.nl! #openscience #collaboration

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Justin J.J. van der Hooft @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social · 4d

#Triest 2025 😎

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Justin J.J. van der Hooft @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social · 4d

When your bingo ball order grew out of control....

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Justin J.J. van der Hooft @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social · 6d

Training from Schiphol towards #Wageningen @w-u-r.bsky.social after #ECMNP25 (European Conference on Marine Natural Products), I will leave you with this (action) shot of #Piran, #Slovenia, in the morning light.... 😎

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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 7d

Larissa Della Vedova (UU/WUR) on Optimization of a Mass Spectrometry and Computational Metabolomics Workflow to Unveil Microbial Dynamics in Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections

#metabolomics for #microbialecology

NWO-XL project by @lizscurious.bsky.social and colleagues
#NIME2025

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Justin J.J. van der Hooft @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social · 14d

Ready for #ECMNP25 in Piran, Slovenia! 😎 It was great seeing many familiar faces at the welcome reception, and to meet new colleagues in the marine natural products field! 😊

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Justin J.J. van der Hooft @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social · 14d

West Coast Metabolomics Center UCDavis @metabolomics-wcmc.bsky.social · 14d

We are truly proud of our Bits & Bites # 06: "Using MetaboAnalyst for Metabolomics Statistics and Data Visualizations" October 9, 2025, from 9 am to 1 pm Instructor: Dr. Jeff Xia, McGill University, register and pay: na.eventscloud.com/ereg/index.p...
#metabolomics @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social

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Netherlands eScience Center @esciencecenter.bsky.social · 15d

The eScience blog is back from a well-deserved holiday period. Checkout @egpbos.bsky.social 's latest post about user-friendliness.
blog.esciencecenter.nl/be-like-jurr...

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Justin J.J. van der Hooft @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social · 16d

Me after a week of teaching..(and the other work activities)....

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Mitja M. Zdouc @mmzdouc.bsky.social · 17d

Aaand it's out! Meet MITE - the natural product tailoring enzyme database, just published in @narjournal.bsky.social! MITE DB captures the substrate- and reaction-specificity of tailoring enzymes, allowing to capture this information in a human- and machine-readable way! doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

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Justin J.J. van der Hooft @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social · 21d

Good morning from #Wageningen 😎

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Marnix Medema @marnixmedema.bsky.social · 22d

New preprint out by #RobertKoetsier, the first of his PhD project, on assessing the use of cross-species coexpression analysis to identify primary and secondary metabolic interactions in microbiomes: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Using cross-species co-expression to predict metabolic interactions in microbiomes

In microbial ecosystems, metabolic interactions are key determinants of species’ relative abundance and activity. Given the immense number of possible interactions in microbial communities, their expe...

www.biorxiv.org

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Adriano Rutz @adafede.bsky.social · 23d

@mehdibeni.bsky.social drove it forward, and it was a pleasure to contribute with @robinschmid.bsky.social, @Wout Bittremieux, @Olivier Cailloux, and @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social.
It places the scalability of MS-based metabolomics for natural extracts as a central challenge rather than a side issue.

Justin J.J. van der Hooft @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social · 28d

🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨 Great writing project with @adafede.bsky.social & Mehdi Bennidir and colleagues! @w-u-r.bsky.social
#metabolomics #CompMetabolomics #naturalproducts #discovery #libraries
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Scalability of mass spectrometry-based metabolomics for natural extracts libraries exploration: current status, challenges, and opportunities

Covering: up to 2025This review explores the potential of bioinformatics and chemoinformatics tools to advance the exploration of natural extracts libraries (NELs). Although metabolomics has become a ...

pubs.rsc.org

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Justin J.J. van der Hooft @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social · 28d

🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨 Great writing project with @adafede.bsky.social & Mehdi Bennidir and colleagues! @w-u-r.bsky.social
#metabolomics #CompMetabolomics #naturalproducts #discovery #libraries
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Scalability of mass spectrometry-based metabolomics for natural extracts libraries exploration: current status, challenges, and opportunities

Covering: up to 2025This review explores the potential of bioinformatics and chemoinformatics tools to advance the exploration of natural extracts libraries (NELs). Although metabolomics has become a ...

pubs.rsc.org

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Justin J.J. van der Hooft @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social · 29d

Looking up in #TheHague today 😎