Extra-long tandem repeats (ETRs) such as centromeres and immunoglobulin loci are difficult to align. UniAligner is a computational method for efficiently and accurately aligning ETRs, facilitating analysis of their variation and evolution. Andrey Bzikadze
nature.com/articles/s4159…

Thrilled to share my first paper on GWAS! 📚🧬We utilized imputed genotypes through a new Asian population panel we established, and integrated GWAS with snATAC data to uncover causal cell types! 🧬🧪 Published in Science Advances today! 🎉🥳🥳

doi.org/10.1126/sciadv…

New video from Front Street shows virtually all of downtown Lahaina has been burned down.

I asked an Indigenous colleague in Hawai'i where people can donate to and these were his suggestions (1/2):

Hawaiʻi People's Fund: hawaiipeoplesfund.networkforgood.com/projects/20056…

ʻĀina Momona: secure.actblue.com/donate/kokuama…

We’re looking for a new Head of Research.

Join us to lead, inspire, and shape the future of bioinformatics

Closing: 2 Oct 2023

I'm so proud of the IndigiData initiative. Since starting two summers ago, this workshop has skyrocketed to create timely and much-needed informatics and Indigenous data science workshops on topic areas of direct impact to Tribal Nations. Ahéhée' to everyone who make it happen!

Motivated by the recent discussion around the cancer microbiome, I’ve written a small blog investigating some of the difficulties in normalising microbiome data. github.com/gtonkinhill/TC…

🚀 Unleash the need for speed with the sizzling hot Mashtree v1.4 update! ⚡️ Experience the thrill of faster performance as we bid adieu to the sqlite dependency and usher in a sleeker codebase. 📦Share your thoughts on GitHub issues. ✨💻 Update now: github.com/lskatz/mashtree 🌐

Distinguished Univ. of Maryland Professor Rita Colwell made Forbes' '50 over 50' list of women changing the world through innovation. A renowned microbiologist for her work to eradicate diseases, Colwell also founded a tech company that analyzes microbiomes.

forbes.com/50over50/innov…

Today we submitted our largest #genome - and the largest in Britain & Ireland - the European Mistletoe (Viscum album)... 30 times the size of a human genome! 🧬🎉

Read more about all the hard work from teams Wellcome Sanger Institute and beyond Darwin Tree of Life:
ow.ly/XrUT50PsACr

Happy to announce the publication of my main postdoc project in the Kateryna : An in-depth analysis of the relationship between alternative (non-B) DNA structures and sequencing errors in #Illumina , #PacBio #HiFi and #ONT sequencing genome.cshlp.org/content/early/…

What do you do after a negative exome? So happy to see this paper out which covers some of the new technologies we're using in GREGoR Consortium to evaluate challenging unsolved cases! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

NCBI Comparative Genome Viewer, NCBI Datasets, Nextflow, Smudgeplots, Treeval, VGP Galaxy Pipeline!
27 sessions already scheduled across time zones
FREE and OPEN-TO-ALL
Over 310 spaces already booked, so sign up ASAP at BGA23.org/sessions

This year BG23 has an Academy! Come learn how to use that software you tried alone but had many questions! Led by experts and developers on BlobToolKit, BUSCO, EarlGrey, EASEL, EBI Data Portals, ENA Submissions, Ensembl Annotation, Gfastar, GoaT, hifiasm, Merqury, MitoHiFi, +

🚨 DEADLINE for #BG23 abstracts: August 3 🚨

Submit here👇
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Earth BioGenome Project Biodiversity Genomics Europe (BGE) Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP) African BioGenome Project Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance (GIGA) Bat1k Genome Project Darwin Tree of Life BRIDGE Colombia Wellcome Sanger Tree of Life Programme iBOL Consortium Genome Canada Bioplatforms Australia @BIOSCANEurope European Reference Genome Atlas

Major, fatal errors found in the data and methods of a 2020 paper in nature, including millions of reads mis-identified as bacteria. The 'cancer microbiome' in this study was simply not there. @abrahamgihawi Mihaela Pertea Yuchen Ge Jen Lu biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I would like to welcome Jen Troyer, Ph.D., in her new role as incoming Director of NHGRI’s Division of Extramural Operations. For years, Bettie Graham, Ph.D. – a legend NIH and beyond! – has served in this position; she will be outgoing Director until she retires in late 2023.

I feel lucky to share that I have been granted funding for my project 'find-RNA' by the French research agency. Stay tuned as I will be announcing opportunities for internship and PhD positions in Bonsai Bioinformatics to create data-structures for RNA sequences.

🧵 on new minimizer-space metagenome assembler metaMDBG 👇