Tatiana Gurbich
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Tatiana Gurbich
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Bioinformatician at MGnify (EMBL-EBI) working on MAG catalogues | PhD in Integrative Biology | UC Berkeley alum | Metagenomics, bioinformatics, evolutionary biology
Reposted by Tatiana Gurbich
Excited to share our preprint led by Carlos Voogdt et al

We developed new genetic tools & genome-wide libraries for species of the Bacteroidales order; constructed saturated barcoded transposon libraries in key representatives of three genera.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 13, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Reposted by Tatiana Gurbich
Sometimes you meet absolutely incredible bioinfo-magicians.
It was a huge privilege when @shenwei356.bsky.social
joined our group for a year on an @embl.org sabbatical.
While here, he developed a new way of aligning to
millions of bacteria, called LexicMap 1/n
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Efficient sequence alignment against millions of prokaryotic genomes with LexicMap - Nature Biotechnology
LexicMap uses a fixed set of probes to efficiently query gene sequences for fast and low-memory alignment.
www.nature.com
September 10, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Reposted by Tatiana Gurbich
We're very happy to release our new database Metalog metalog.embl.de ! It offers manually curated and harmonised contextual data for 110k metagenomics samples across the globe, incl. precomputed taxonomic profiles, for interactive browsing and for download 🧵 1/7

#microsky
Metalog
Metalog is a repository of manually annotated metadata (or contextual data) for metagenomic sequencing data from across the globe.
metalog.embl.de
August 15, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Reposted by Tatiana Gurbich
MGnify are at ISMB/ECCB 2025 this week!
Catch our talks on Wednesday to learn about our latest services and tools. 👇 #ISMB2025 #ISMBECCB2025
July 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
With the addition of the soil genome catalogue, MGnify now hosts over half a million genomes - exciting milestone for the resource.
The genome catalogue for the soil microbiome is now live on MGnify! Built from MAGs & isolate genomes across 21 studies (including the recently published SMAG and Microflora Danica catalogues), it features 19,472 species.
MGnify - EBI
www.ebi.ac.uk
July 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Reposted by Tatiana Gurbich
The GIBA network will be launching on September 22nd with an in-person event in Southampton. Do come along to hear and share your thoughts on our plans to drive innovation in the gut-immune-brain axis field in the UK. Sign-up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/uk-giba-ne...
July 14, 2025 at 2:27 PM
MGnify genome catalogues have close to 0.5 million genomes sourced from 12 biomes #WorldMicrobiomeDay
Microbes can be difficult to culture in the laboratory. To tackle this we assemble their genomes directly from metagenomic data. These are called MAGs: metagenome-assembled genomes. Explore the novelty of uncultivated microbes in our biome-specific genome catalogues. www.ebi.ac.uk/metagenomics...
June 27, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Reposted by Tatiana Gurbich
It’s #WorldMicrobiomeDay! This year’s theme is Microbiome 101: What You Need to Know — here we present MGnify’s guide to microbiome data! 🔬
June 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Reposted by Tatiana Gurbich
Are you interested in learning more about the tools, processes and analysis approaches used in the field of genome-resolved #metagenomics? Then this course is for you! www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

Limited financial assistance is available. See course page for more info.

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March 31, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Our paper describing mettannotator, a new prokaryotic annotation pipeline, is out: academic.oup.com/bioinformati...
📝 Mettannotator generates comprehensive structural & functional annotations
⚙️ Built with #Nextflow — scalable, no installation needed
January 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM