Peter Menzel
@pmenzel.bsky.social
Bioinformatics Scientist at Labor Berlin | Clinical Bioinfo | menzel.tech | github.com/pmenzel | ❤️#rstats
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URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯
Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.
This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.
Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.
This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.
My lab studies bacterial infections. We spend a lot of time looking at (or for) species-specific genetic and genomic databases for hosts and microbes. FlyBase is the best of all—there is literally no comparison. Its existence is under threat. Please donate.
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
Drosophila Genetic Database
The Drosophila Genetic Database, FlyBase, is on the brink of collapse due to the sudden termination of the FlyBase NIH grant, which includes salaries for 5 literature curators based at the University ...
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk
June 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯
Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.
This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.
Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.
This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.
Reposted by Peter Menzel
An opportunity to run the greatest little RNA Databases that can, Rfam & RNAcentral: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
The only downside is you have to live near Cambridge in the UK.
The only downside is you have to live near Cambridge in the UK.
RNA Resources Project Leader
About the team/job We are recruiting a Project Leader to spearhead the development of the RNAcentral and Rfam databases. Rfam and RNAcentral are key resources for RNA Biology that serve tens of thousa...
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com
June 6, 2025 at 7:30 AM
An opportunity to run the greatest little RNA Databases that can, Rfam & RNAcentral: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
The only downside is you have to live near Cambridge in the UK.
The only downside is you have to live near Cambridge in the UK.
Reposted by Peter Menzel
Limited value of Nanopore adaptive sampling in a long-read metagenomic profiling workflow of clinical sputum samples https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.25.645176v1
March 26, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Limited value of Nanopore adaptive sampling in a long-read metagenomic profiling workflow of clinical sputum samples https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.25.645176v1
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Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
March 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
Reposted by Peter Menzel
Our new GenSpectrum.org dashboard has finally launched! Using Influenza H5N1, RSV and SARS-CoV-2 data from INSDC and West Nile virus data from @pathoplexus.org, it enables fast and interactive analyses of genome sequencing data similar to CoV-Spectrum. 1/5
November 25, 2024 at 12:55 PM
Our new GenSpectrum.org dashboard has finally launched! Using Influenza H5N1, RSV and SARS-CoV-2 data from INSDC and West Nile virus data from @pathoplexus.org, it enables fast and interactive analyses of genome sequencing data similar to CoV-Spectrum. 1/5
Great three-part blog post by James Fellows Yates about adding software to bioconda: ubinfie.github.io/2024/08/16/a...
Adding bioinformatic software to Bioconda - a reference guide
In this first part of a three part guide, this post aims to provide an (opinionated) guide to adding a tool or package to Bioconda.
ubinfie.github.io
September 11, 2024 at 8:05 PM
Great three-part blog post by James Fellows Yates about adding software to bioconda: ubinfie.github.io/2024/08/16/a...
Variability and bias in microbiome metagenomic sequencing: an interlaboratory study comparing experimental protocols www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Variability and bias in microbiome metagenomic sequencing: an interlaboratory study comparing experimental protocols - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Variability and bias in microbiome metagenomic sequencing: an interlaboratory study comparing experimental protocols
www.nature.com
April 29, 2024 at 7:48 PM
Variability and bias in microbiome metagenomic sequencing: an interlaboratory study comparing experimental protocols www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Snakemake workflows for long-read bacterial genome assembly and evaluation in @gigabytejournal.bsky.social: gigabytejournal.com/articles/116
April 2, 2024 at 7:41 AM
Snakemake workflows for long-read bacterial genome assembly and evaluation in @gigabytejournal.bsky.social: gigabytejournal.com/articles/116
New paper about a nosocomial outbreak of Pandoraea commovens: wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...
Outbreak of <em>Pandoraea commovens</em> among Non–Cystic Fibrosis Intensive Care Patients, German...
<em>P. commovens</em> among Non–Cystic Fibrosis Patients
wwwnc.cdc.gov
October 18, 2023 at 10:20 AM
New paper about a nosocomial outbreak of Pandoraea commovens: wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...