New preprint where we analysed IS loads in 🦠 #Klebsiella pneumoniae lineages and found they're inversely associated with nutrient usage. We propose an insertional tolerance model, whereby IS can only insert into metabolically-tolerable sites.

#IDSky #MicroSky 🧪

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

Pleased to say that our preprint benchmarking Nanopore data for MLST, cgMLST, cgSNP & AMR typing from bacterial isolates is out! TL;DR you can get almost perfect results from 50x depth using live SUP basecalling with a GPU in under 20 hours #microsky#IDsky 🦠🧬🖥️ /1
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...