Byron J. Smith
byronjsmith.bsky.social
Byron J. Smith
@byronjsmith.bsky.social
Microbial Ecologist / Bioinformatician, Postdoc in the Pollard Lab, Gladstone Institutes. PhD from University of Michigan
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Today, the #SnakemakeHackathon2025 at @cern.bsky.social has ended with the release of Snakemake 9.0! Huge thanks to the amazing participants and all organizers! In total there were 19 new releases within the ecosystem, including hundreds of new features and bug fixes for Snakemake and its plugins!
March 14, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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An exciting first day of the #SnakemakeHackathon2025 at @cern.bsky.social is ending now. I have already merged several pull requests and many very productive teams have formed!
March 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
A great RA opportunity at the UCSF microbiome center. Perfect for a recent university graduate with some experience in microbiology and genomics assays (and who wants a lot more). Work with some awesome researchers in San Francisco!

aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF05459
Microbial Genomics - Research Assistant (Junior/Assistant Specialist)
University of California, San Francisco is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.ucsf.edu
January 24, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Applications are open for the Microbial Population Biology GRS and GRC!

The GRS is a fun day for grad students and postdocs to network before the full GRC starts, and is co-chaired this year by me and Laura Suttenfield

Get your applications in by Jan 15! #evosky 🦠🧪

www.grc.org/microbial-po...
2025 Microbial Population Biology (GRS) Seminar GRC
The 2025 Gordon Research Seminar on Microbial Population Biology (GRS) will be held in Andover, New Hampshire. Apply today to reserve your spot.
www.grc.org
November 14, 2024 at 8:02 AM
Now that you're all here, seems like a great time to share my newest (and now newly updated) preprint!

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

Update to the MIDAS pangenome profiling pipeline, a tool for strain-specific gene content (StrainPGC), and an integrated workflow tying it all together.

Cheers!
Accurate estimation of intraspecific microbial gene content variation in metagenomic data with MIDAS v3 and StrainPGC
Metagenomics has greatly expanded our understanding of the human gut microbiome by revealing a vast diversity of bacterial species within and across individuals. Even within a single species, differen...
www.biorxiv.org
November 19, 2024 at 9:19 PM