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alex jaffe
@alexjaf.bsky.social
(marine) microbial ecology + evolution | stanford postdoc | he/him/his
congrats - and great to see some more rhodopsins characterized from the CPR!
October 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
thanks for flagging.
September 22, 2025 at 4:32 PM
@tendersombrero.bsky.social may have some thoughts?
August 27, 2025 at 4:17 PM
fingers crossed for good data!
August 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM
cool, im interested - will send you an email!
August 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
is research on mesophilic environments eligible ?!
August 23, 2025 at 7:28 PM
amen. feel like i need a print-out version for my desk, or something!
August 18, 2025 at 4:44 PM
tested for what, exactly? in any case, there are nice examples from marine micro - HOTS/BATS/ san pedro for long term time series, geotraces malaspina and tara for geographic breadth …
August 8, 2025 at 1:24 AM
yep
July 31, 2025 at 3:49 AM
you are correct - thanks for flagging that!
July 23, 2025 at 11:31 PM
one other quick question for you - seeing lots of otu coverage vals with 0.31 decimal increments - expected behavior? if so, related to default kmer len?
July 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
ah, that's great! working mostly with illumina right now but this may be useful in the future. kudos on your documentation, by the way - very clear
July 18, 2025 at 1:14 AM
great - thanks!
July 18, 2025 at 12:24 AM
congrats to the team and thanks for the great tool! curious if you have any tips/tricks for 'supplement' - im concerned for ex. that adding more erroneous MAGs from current nanopore chemistry might mess with smafa
July 17, 2025 at 9:37 PM
this was me using rclone yesterday - why u so slow!?
July 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
we love to see it.. also neat they derived their expected breadth calculation from an '88 paper
July 13, 2025 at 7:26 PM
and then there’s infant gut…
July 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
but even without that you could get a sense for % of reads composed by your genome(s) of interest - an imperfect (of course) proxy.

i also love branchwater.jgi.doe.gov but im not sure that will give you rel abund, simply presence across all SRA - a very useful starting point for more detailed work
Branchwater Metagenome Query
branchwater.jgi.doe.gov
July 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM