minimap2.com is potentially a phishing site. Please don't use anything from that website.
github.com/lh3/minimap2...

#GRS and #GRC #Archaea in the Swiss Alps: great meetings and location! Many familiar and even more new faces. Going home with exciting ideas and collaboration initiatives on exploring #archaeal #viruses in #soil! Thanks to everyone 😉

You can learn more about virus research conducted with JGI support by checking out:

🦠Our Viral Genomics group (led by @simrouxvirus.bsky.social): jgi.doe.gov/who-we-are/p...

🦠Our Metagenome Science Program: jgi.doe.gov/science-prog...

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Our perspective on soil virus ecology research is out!

Fantastic collab with
@christinahazard.bsky.social @karthik-a.bsky.social @lukehillary.bsky.social @urineri.bsky.social @simrouxvirus.bsky.social @gtrubl.bsky.social @KurtWilliams @jeffinerca.bsky.social @graemenicol.bsky.social @JoanneEmerson

Tatiana Demina introduced #esm2025 community novel Tunturi virus isolates from Finnish Arctic tundra soils.

Hello everyone! I am pleased to share information on the first ever Computational Structural Virology Symposium, conducted August 4th on zoom and highlighting work in this emerging field. You can register for this event here: forms.gle/CNiqskMwQEuV.... Please re-post!

New pre-print out \o/ All about CRISPR, metagenomes, and what you learn when you collect (a lot of) spacers from natural communities, with @apcamargo.bsky.social @urineri.bsky.social @lhug.bsky.social but also Uri Gophna, Nikhil George (not on Bsky I think) & others at JGI doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Many thanks to all who contributed to #RdRpSummit2025 & #ViBioM2025, making these meetings such great platforms for sharing #virus research insights and new #bioinformatics tools! An amazing week of networking & (a bit of) sightseeing in beautiful Lisbon ❤️ @rdrpsummit.bsky.social @evbc.bsky.social

Lunch breaks are for good food and even better (RdRp) conversations! ❣️💃🏻
#RdRpSummit2025

If you use Kraken for profiling microbial / environmental / ancient metagenomic data, please check this preprint where I benchmark filtering strategies of Kraken outputs on simulated microbial and environmental metagenomic samples, and provide recommendations for optimal filtering thresholds

EXCITING NEWS🥳! @isme-microbes.bsky.social is now sponsoring 3 travels grants worth EUR 500 each to support early career researchers presenting at the #RdRpSummit2025.
Abstract submissions & registrations are still open!✍️
More info at RdRp.io

Interested in #soil #viruses? We are! Excited to share our study on #Acidobacteriota #phages in #Arctic #tundra #soils being now published together with an easy-to-follow video abstract: microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

We're looking for suggestions on how to update and adapt the Minimum Information about an Uncultured Viral Genome (MIUVIG) reporting standard. What works? What needs updating? Check out the survey forms.gle/DPHvMFe8Gsdj... 🧵

Going to #ViBioM2025 ? Interested in discovery of RNA viruses? Consider joining us 2 days early (May 11-12) in Lisbon for the 2025 RdRp summit @rdrpsummit.bsky.social ! Program and abstract submission will be available soon.
We'll talk advances in methodology from isolation to bioinformatics.

🚨 🌟 Submissions & Registrations Open for #ViBioM2025! 🌟 🚨
Join us 13–15 May 2025 in Lisbon, Portugal! 🦠💻 Present your research, connect with global experts, and shape the future of #Virology & #Bioinformatics.

📅 Details & links: evbc.uni-jena.de/events/vibio...

It's been a wonderful month at @jgi.doe.gov in @simrouxvirus.bsky.social group studying the effects of #reindeer grazing on #soil #viruses, a project by @jennihultman.bsky.social. Highly recommend MVP by Clement Coclet!
Many thanks to JGI folks for warm welcoming! Take care and see you!

#Acidobacteriota is one of the most abundant bacterial phyla in #soil, yet extremely little is known about their #viruses. New insights into Acidobacteriota-associated #virome in #climate-critical #Arctic #tundra #soils in our preprint!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Enjoying amazing #VoM2024 in Australia, Queensland, the Sunshine State! @vom2024.bsky.social #VoM2024PhotoChallenge
P.S. Welcome to my poster 008 tomorrow! ☀️

Challenged myself with writing a blog post for the Nessling Foundation in Finnish:) Briefly, we unexpectedly isolated new Bdellovibrio-related bacteria while trying to isolate viruses from tundra soils. Research is exciting! Thanks to @jennihultman.bsky.social & @johannaosvath.bsky.social for help!