VIPERA v1.2.2 is out!! 🐍

now you can swap in different stats (useful for non-linear allele freq trends). also: new Docker images on release, containerized CI, updated envs, and minor bug fixes for smoother, reproducible intra-patient SARS-CoV-2 analyses

🧪👉 github.com/PathoGenOmics-Lab/VIPERA

FACT THREAD on New Interstellar Object #A11pl3Z

This story unfolded pretty fast yesterday for a few reasons. The object was discovered on July 1st UTC by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS team. A #NASA funded survey at the University of Hawaii. atlas.fallingstar.com 🔭🧪

So uh, there's a new interstellar object discovered at Chile yesterday. Name is A11pl3Z, has a hyperbolic trajectory of eccentricity 14±4 (WTF). Currently appmag 18, 4 AU away from Earth, and coming to 2 AU perihelion this October.
(tagging🔭☄️)
Observing it with remote scope rn, calling astronomers..

On June 20, #I2SysBio (@csic.es - @uv.es) hosted Alva Saa from association PRISMA, who shared ten key measures to foster #LGTBIQA+ 🏳️‍🌈 inclusion in #science. The talk addressed actions like staff training, safe reporting channels, and collective visibility in research.
🌐 i2sysbio.es/communicatio...

VIPERA v1.2.1 is here!! 🐍🐍🐍

Our workflow for SARS-CoV-2 intra-patient evolution analysis now fully supports Snakemake 8/9 (with dedicated CI tests), BIONJ trees, richer reports, added config parameters, modular Snakefiles and more! 🧪👉 github.com/PathoGenOmics-Lab/VIPERA

Just back from MCEB 2025 in Granada! I presented our year-long work expanding VIPERA🐍 to help us better track pathogen evolution, here at @pathogenomics.bsky.social - @i2sysbio.bsky.social. I learned so much and returned full of ideas! Thanks to @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social for funding my attendance! 🧪

Gentes de Bluesky, firmad esto que es importante: iniciativa ciudadana europea para prohibir las "terapias" de conversión de personas LGTBIQ+. NO es un change.org, puede suponer un cambio legal real. Y no lo dejéis para luego, que se acaba el sábado. eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...

saw an egyptian vulture! an alimoche! #birds

Un equipo liderado por el @i2sysbio.bsky.social publica una investigación que halla errores en las secuencias genéticas del #coronavirus incluidas en la mayor base de datos mundial. También participan @ibv-csic.bsky.social y el IIS La Fe.

delegacion.comunitatvalenciana.csic.es/hallan-error...

By mining GISAID, researchers from I2SysBio uncover sequencing artifacts in SARS-CoV-2. Many repair mutations in the spike protein were due to errors in data processing. #covid19 #viruses #microsky🧪🦠💻🧬 More info: www.i2sysbio.es/communicatio... ⬇️

happy to share our new study! 🧪

while exploring how often #sars-cov-2 "repairs" deletions in BA.1, we found significant genome artifacts in GISAID 🤯 we compared with raw reads from ENA + tested the effects in vitro. turns out, data processing matters a lot 📉

check it out!! doi.org/10.1093/ve/v...

Oferta de beca de investigación en nuestro instituto con la excelente supervisora Mireia Coscollá @pathogenomics.bsky.social . Proyecto enfocado en bioinformática, tema patógenos 🧪🦠🧫🧬🖥👩‍🔬

Our institute hosts the exhibition “Train the feminist gaze”, promoted by the City Council of Valencia @ajuntament-vlc.bsky.social to highlight the inequalities between women and men present in everyday life and in areas such as art or science 🧪 www.i2sysbio.es/communicatio... #WomenInSTEM 👩‍🔬

Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X

https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai

Our research institute I2SysBio🇪🇸 has created a starter pack for researchers in systems biology, everybody is welcome, write us if you want to be added 🔬🧫🧬🖥🦑🦠🌱🦟🪳🪸🌾

Had a great time sharing an exciting new direction for VIPERA🐍 at the I congress of the Spanish Society of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (SEBiBC)! Can't wait for the next one 🗣️🗣️