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pha4ge.bsky.social @pha4ge.bsky.social · 14d

Join us for the #PHA4GECon2025 & #IPSNGPF2025 hosted by IPSN, @afro.who.int and @pha4ge.bsky.social.

Join our expert panel on October 27, 2025, as they tackle key genomics data challenges shaping global surveillance. Collaborate, share insights, and drive public health innovation.

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WHO CC Influenza Melbourne @whofluccmelb.bsky.social · Sep 10

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION and REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN FOR THE 16TH AUSTRALIAN INFLUENZA SYMPOSIUM (13-14 November 2025 The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity)
Registration link: eventbrite.com/e/16th-austr...
Abstract submission: influenzacentre.org//Centre_Acti...

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Jim Shaw @jimshaw.bsky.social · Sep 7

Preprint out for myloasm, our new nanopore / HiFi metagenome assembler!

Nanopore's getting accurate, but

1. Can this lead to better metagenome assemblies?
2. How, algorithmically, to leverage them?

with co-author Max Marin @mgmarin.bsky.social, supervised by Heng Li @lh3lh3.bsky.social

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bioRxiv Bioinfo @biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social · Sep 7

High-resolution metagenome assembly for modern long reads with myloasm https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.05.674543v1

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Ryan Wick @rrwick.bsky.social · 16d

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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AnniZLab: [🦠, 🧬 , ✨] @annizlab.bsky.social · Sep 15

X-Mapper 🦠🧬🧪 - a sequence aligner developed for microbes, now on Bioconda! 🚀
• 11–24× fewer suboptimal alignments (same for human genome)
• 3–579× lower inconsistency
• improves on ~30% of reads aligned to non-target species
github.com/mathjeff/map...
bioconda.github.io/recipes/x-ma...
#microsky

Alignment algorithms represent a balance between speed and accuracy. We evaluated this balance across aligners, with accuracy measured by suboptimal alignments. We found that the relationship between alignment time (with 30 threads) and suboptimal alignment rates exhibits diminishing returns, where X-Mapper stands out as an outlier, offering the highest accuracy with competitive speed.

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SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics @sib.swiss · 2d

🔎 Check out MetaGraph – a powerful search engine for DNA, RNA and protein sequences in large public repositories. This important milestone in computational genomics was published in Nature, by SIB scientists at ETH Zurich.

A fast, accurate ‘sequence search engine’

The MetaGraph tool can search through millions of published DNA, RNA and protein records in a matter of seconds. Developed by SIB scientists at ETH Zurich, the tool overcomes current limitations in an...

www.sib.swiss

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Anna Maria Niewiadomska @amnbio.bsky.social · 20d

You can't just pull data out of thin air. Or can you...?
That's exactly what Craine et al. did in Panama, through air sampling and airDNA metabarcoding, detecting ~1800 arthropod and vertebrate OTUs.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#nanopore #airsampling #metabarcoding #biodiversity

Surveying Tropical Faunal Diversity via Airborne DNA Analyses

Here, we assess the potential of airborne eDNA (airDNA) metabarcoding to characterize arthropod and vertebrate assemblages in a tropical forest. We deployed 28 high-flow air samplers across a 1.5 km2…

www.biorxiv.org

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Zymo Research @zymoresearch.bsky.social · 12d

Webinar: Squiggles to the Rescue: Nanopore Sequencing and AI for Rapid One Health Surveillance

Join us as Dr. Lara Urban explores how nanopore sequencing and AI can empower rapid One Health strategies.

Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025, 11:00 AM PT

Register Now: www.zymoresearch.com/pages/squigg...

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Alex Crits-Christoph @acritschristoph.bsky.social · Sep 6

The new -outfmt 20 in BLAST 😍. No more frustrated googling to remember which column is which.....

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MicroSeq2025 @microseqasm.bsky.social · Sep 4

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#MicroSeq2025

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MicroSeq2025 @microseqasm.bsky.social · Sep 4

Until next year, @mozztacular.bsky.social, Asad, @royalfizzbin.bsky.social, Mozammel, @wytamma.bsky.social , Bec, and @rhyshparry.bsky.social out!
#MicroSeq2025

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MicroSeq2025 @microseqasm.bsky.social · Sep 4

And that’s a wrap of #MicroSeq2025! A huge thanks to all our brilliant presenters, fantastic chairs, and wonderfully engaged audience. We hope you all enjoyed the conference as much as we did, and can’t wait to see you next year at #MicroSeq2026!

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MicroSeq2025 @microseqasm.bsky.social · Sep 4

What a fantastic way to wrap up our #MicroSeq2025 talks! Leah gives our junior researchers some valuable career advice, like go new places, find mentors, reflect and introspect, and be strategic about taking opportunities!

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MicroSeq2025 @microseqasm.bsky.social · Sep 4

🐖Manavi Muralidhar evaluates #metagenomics as an early pathogen detection method in piggery wastewater samples. Explore the ways metagenomics can monitor disease outbreaks and how to improve sensitivity for successful implementation! #MicroSeq2025 #OneHealth #wastewater

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MicroSeq2025 @microseqasm.bsky.social · Sep 4

💾 @himal2007.bsky.social introduces mlstdb, which handles authentication and automates Multi-Locus Sequence Typing scheme downloads from major repositories amidst ongoing data accessibility challenges. “Always Be Validating” - great motto! #MicroSeq2025 #MLST #bioinformatics #databases

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MicroSeq2025 @microseqasm.bsky.social · Sep 3

Some more incredibly valuable advice from Jackie: refine experimental designs, be critical of bioinformatic output, and perhaps most importantly, name your novel viruses something that brings you joy! Like Jackie’s coolest virus name: Lilsebastian narna-like virus.

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MicroSeq2025 @microseqasm.bsky.social · Sep 3

github.com/ausbiopathge...

GitHub - ausbiopathgenDB/AustralianBiosecurityGenomicDatabase: A genomic reference sequence database for notifiable animal disease pathogens in Australia.

A genomic reference sequence database for notifiable animal disease pathogens in Australia. - ausbiopathgenDB/AustralianBiosecurityGenomicDatabase

github.com

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MicroSeq2025 @microseqasm.bsky.social · Sep 3

Extract > library prep > sequencing > so much data! This results in a critical need for specifically curated genomic databases to streamline data analysis for viral surveillance and pathogen monitoring. Can't be missing notifiable diseases in your data sets! #MicroSeq2025

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MicroSeq2025 @microseqasm.bsky.social · Sep 3

Your #MicroSeq2025 committee - @mozztacular.bsky.social , Asad Prodhan, @royalfizzbin.bsky.social , Mozammel Hoque, @wytamma.bsky.social , Rebecca Roach, and @rhyshparry.bsky.social - are all here and ready to go! 🫡

Please feel free to reach out to any of us w/ questions or concerns at any time ♥️

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The Lambrechts Lab @lambrechtslab.bsky.social · Aug 28

Does #dengue virus hijack #mosquitoes' brain? Study led by Felix Hol @pasteur.fr discovered that infected mosquitoes take smaller blood meals. As a result, they bite more often, and potentially infect infect more people.

(video in French with English subtitles available)
youtu.be/2u_qckfAQa4?...

La dengue aux commandes

YouTube video by Institut Pasteur

youtu.be

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · Aug 28

We present: The Art of #InverteFest - August 2025 Edition
A digital art book showcasing the work of 100 artists from around the world, in celebration of overlooked invertebrate fauna.

Thank you to the artists who contributed to our book!

Download here drive.google.com/file/d/19wfG...

#Art #SciArt

a promo image showing various pages from the book, each page showcasing different animals like an orchid mantis, opabinia, a butterfly. the art featured shows a range of different medium, including digital, plushie, papercraft, 3D render, comic, and so on.

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Hugh Cottingham @hughcottingham.bsky.social · Jul 30

Pleased to say that our preprint benchmarking Nanopore data for MLST, cgMLST, cgSNP & AMR typing from bacterial isolates is out! TL;DR you can get almost perfect results from 50x depth using live SUP basecalling with a GPU in under 20 hours #microsky#IDsky 🦠🧬🖥️ /1
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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MicroSeq2025 @microseqasm.bsky.social · Sep 1

✨ #MicroSeq2025 Plenary Highlight! ✨
Dr Jackie Mahar is an evolutionary virologist & bioinformatician based at CSIRO, managing projects on NGS-based phylogenomics of zoonotic & animal viruses for pathogen discovery, surveillance & viral ecology.
Register👇
trybooking.com/events/landing/1424679