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Rob Edwards @linsalrob.bsky.social · 21h

🦠Join the legendary @viromegirl.bsky.social lab

Jobs in marine micro, virology & genomics
💻 Viral 'omics in seagrass
🧬 Marine microbial & bioinformatics
🧫 Vibrio phage + iron biogeochemistry
🎓 sea urchin–ciliate diseases

👉 www.marine.usf.edu/genomics/app...

#MarineVirology #Phagesky #Microbiome

Welcome to the Breitbart Lab - Genomics

We are modern virus hunters, using metagenomic sequencing to discover viruses in a wide range of environments and hosts. Have fun exploring the marvels of microbiology on this website!

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Rob Patro @robp.bsky.social · 2d

Hi bioinformatics, genomics and CS friends! Please help me spread the word. I'm hiring a postdoc! Come work on cutting edge method development in algorithmic genomics with me and my group at @umdscience.bsky.social! 🖥️🧬

Rob Patro @robp.bsky.social · 4d

And it's posted! If you're interested and eligible, please consider applying through the UMD portal: umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j....

If you're a PI working in algorithmic genomics (& you can recommend my lab to your top graduating students ;P), please let them know!

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Rob Edwards @linsalrob.bsky.social · 1d

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Mya Breitbart @viromegirl.bsky.social · 10d

We're hiring for several positions (a post-bac researcher in #transcriptomics, a #phage #postdoc, a senior researcher (broad topics) and a graduate student to work on #ciliates) - find info here: www.marine.usf.edu/genomics/app...

Apply - Genomics

www.marine.usf.edu

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Ellie Jameson @elliejameson.bsky.social · 5d

Day 7, Share. Inoviruses are filamentous single stranded DNA phages that can be produced continuously and exported by their host without lysis and killing their host. They have a single repeating major coat protein that covers their length and specialised spike proteins. #Drawtober #SciArt #Phagesky

Black and white ink drawing of two long filamentous phages. The one in the background is all the same distance away. In the foreground is a close up of the spike proteins of the closer phage with 5 repeated protein complexes forming what looks almost like a flower, the rest of the inovirus loops around into the background

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Ryan Wick @rrwick.bsky.social · 13d

Happy to share that the paper describing Autocycler is now 100% up:
doi.org/10.1093/bioi...
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Autocycler: long-read consensus assembly for bacterial genomes

AbstractMotivation. Long-read sequencing enables complete bacterial genome assemblies, but individual assemblers are imperfect and often produce sequence-l

doi.org

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Stevie Ped @smped.bsky.social · 16d

Really pleased to announce that registrations are open for the two-day series of workshops, immediately following the ABACBS conference in Adelaide this year. Workshops are presented as a combined event between BiocAsia and ABACBS. www.abacbs.org/abacbs-2025-...

#Bioconductor #rstats #ABACBS

Workshops 2025

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Rob Edwards @linsalrob.bsky.social · 16d

This is a fantastic thread, can't wait to read the paper. Great work

Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social · 16d

Apologies, forgot to add the actual paper link!!!!!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Pre- and postantibiotic epoch: The historical spread of antimicrobial resistance

Plasmids are now the primary vectors of antimicrobial resistance, but our understanding of how human industrialisation of antibiotics influenced their evolution is limited by a paucity of data predati...

www.science.org

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Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦 @martinsteinegger.bsky.social · 21d

MMseqs2-GPU sets new standards in single query search speed, allows near instant search of big databases, scales to multiple GPUs and is fast beyond VRAM. It enables ColabFold MSA generation in seconds and sub-second Foldseek search against AFDB50. 1/n
📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
💿 mmseqs.com

GPU-accelerated homology search with MMseqs2 - Nature Methods

Graphics processing unit-accelerated MMseqs2 offers tremendous speedups for homology retrieval from metagenomic databases, query-centered multiple sequence alignment generation for structure predictio...

www.nature.com

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Vijini Mallawaarachchi @vijinim.bsky.social · 25d

Excited to share our latest preprint on agtools, an open-source Python framework for analysing and manipulating assembly graphs. (1/n)

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#Bioinformatics #genomics #assembly #assemblygraphs #software

agtools: a software framework to manipulate assembly graphs

Assembly graphs are a fundamental data structure used by genome and metagenome assemblers to represent sequences and their overlap information, facilitating the assembler to construct longer genomic f...

www.biorxiv.org

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Rob Edwards @linsalrob.bsky.social · Sep 12

Terrific talk from @motherofphage.bsky.social about the impact of conflicts on the rise of #AMR and how they are using #phage to help save lives in war zones

#BSVOM @bsvom.bsky.social

@motherofphage.bsky.social getting ready to tell us about the rise of amr in warzones

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Rob Edwards @linsalrob.bsky.social · Sep 11

Excited to hear from @surtlab.bsky.social about his work on #phage tailocins

@surtlab.bsky.social getting ready to talk tailocins

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Rob Edwards @linsalrob.bsky.social · Sep 10

The @isvm-society.bsky.social is at the #phage protein meeting in Ghent.

Fantastic meeting, beautiful city, wonderful colleagues

ISVM leadership at the Phage Protein Meeting in Ghent 2025

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Ryan Radecki MD MS @www.evidencetriage.com · Sep 5

I wish I didn't have to tempt anyone with the idea of abandoning a sinking ship, but Australia is ramping up their own CDC, and there might soon be some opportunities to go work where science still retains respect, and neither you, nor your children, are shot at ....
www.cdc.gov.au/newsroom/new...

www.cdc.gov.au

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Sabrina Green @motherofphage.bsky.social · Sep 4

Great talk from Rob Edwards. Lots of new #phage tools to play with. Scan the QR codes.

Also he has 5 year #postdoc positions below. Seems like a sufficient amount to get some good work done.

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · Sep 5

In under 24h following the newly identified outbreak of #Ebola in the DRC, the virus has been isolated, sequenced and the virus sequence data made publicly available.
virological.org/t/the-16th-e...

The 16th Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak in Bulape Health Zone, Kasai, Democratic Republic of the Congo: A new spillover event from an unknown reservoir host

Background The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is currently facing concurrent outbreaks including mpox, cholera and malaria (1-4). The Ministry of Public Health, DRC has declared the 16th Ebola...

virological.org

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