Shoutout to @georginajoyce.bsky.social for creating the amazing Bin Chicken logo!
www.georginajoyce.com
And thanks to everyone at @cmrqut.bsky.social for your support and @emerge-bii.bsky.social for funding this research!

¾ of these genomes were rare (<1% abundance in all samples), so we dubbed them the “Rare Biosphere Genomes”. Available for download! 4/

We used Bin Chicken to screen public 🌍 metagenomes, choosing the best 800 sample-sets for coassembly, and recovered 24,028 novel species 🦠 of Bacteria and Archaea, including the first representatives of 6 phyla and 41 classes. 3/

Bin Chicken compares marker gene sequences across metagenomic reads to group samples into coassemblies 🧬🧬 predicted to recover novel genomes 🦠. It can recover rare lineages that can’t be recovered from single-samples and target recovery of particular lineages of interest. 2/

“Bin Chicken” is now published in Nature Methods! It substantially improves genome recovery through rational coassembly 🧬🖥️. Applied to public 🌍 metagenomes, we recovered 24,000 novel species 🦠, including 6 new phyla.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
@benjwoodcroft.bsky.social @rhysnewell.bsky.social
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Excited to introduce the preprint for CoverM: the Swiss Army knife of coverage calculators for metagenomics! 🧬🖥️ DOI: doi.org/10.48550/arX...
@benjwoodcroft.bsky.social @viralinstruction.bsky.social @apcamargo.bsky.social

Shoutout to @Georgina_HJoyce for creating the amazing Bin Chicken logo!
www.georginajoyce.com

¾ of these genomes were rare (<1% abundance in all samples), so we dubbed them the “Rare Biosphere Genomes”. Available for download! 4/

We used Bin Chicken to screen public 🌍 metagenomes, choosing the best 800 sample-sets for coassembly, and recovered 24,028 novel species 🦠 of Bacteria and Archaea, including the first representatives of 6 phyla and 41 classes. 3/

Bin Chicken compares marker gene sequences across metagenomic reads to group samples into coassemblies 🧬🧬 predicted to recover novel genomes 🦠. It can recover rare lineages that can’t be recovered from single-samples and target recovery of particular lineages of interest. 2/

Excited to share “Bin Chicken”, substantially improving genome recovery through rational metagenomic assembly. Applied to public 🌍 metagenomes, it recovered 24,000 novel species 🦠, including 6 novel phyla.
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
@wwood @rhysnewell @CMR_QUT
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