Michael Kuhn
@biocs.bsky.social
Computational biologist. Research staff scientist and research coordinator in the @borklab.bsky.social at @embl.org Heidelberg.
We're up to 1000 studies in metalog.embl.de ! For the past year the focus was on finding inconsistencies in the data and creating the website, but now I have more time to go through the backlog of annotated issues to do QC and load them into the database.
November 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
We're up to 1000 studies in metalog.embl.de ! For the past year the focus was on finding inconsistencies in the data and creating the website, but now I have more time to go through the backlog of annotated issues to do QC and load them into the database.
We have already made good use of part of the data in publications, e.g. doi.org/10.1136/gutj... doi.org/10.1038/s415... doi.org/10.7554/eLif... doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... doi.org/10.1101/2024... to study biomarkers for pancreatic cancer, associations with microbial load, or the spread of C. diff 5/7
August 15, 2025 at 8:07 AM
We have already made good use of part of the data in publications, e.g. doi.org/10.1136/gutj... doi.org/10.1038/s415... doi.org/10.7554/eLif... doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... doi.org/10.1101/2024... to study biomarkers for pancreatic cancer, associations with microbial load, or the spread of C. diff 5/7
The database grew from human data to animal and environmental data, and now covers the whole globe (and even the International Space Station). I'm still fascinated by the tracks of expeditions across the oceans and samples from Antarctica to Greenland 4/7
August 15, 2025 at 8:07 AM
The database grew from human data to animal and environmental data, and now covers the whole globe (and even the International Space Station). I'm still fascinated by the tracks of expeditions across the oceans and samples from Antarctica to Greenland 4/7
Asking Google "is it 2025" has been making the rounds and I guess they are fixing it, but asking (today, on a Friday) "is it friday" still returns an answer riddled with errors
May 30, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Asking Google "is it 2025" has been making the rounds and I guess they are fixing it, but asking (today, on a Friday) "is it friday" still returns an answer riddled with errors
During the data analysis, it took us quite a long time to develop a good way to compare the growth of species in community vs monoculture, as "it's all relative" to control conditions in our case. We settled on calling it "ratio of abundances in community", which I guess is similar to "fold change"
September 24, 2024 at 3:52 PM
During the data analysis, it took us quite a long time to develop a good way to compare the growth of species in community vs monoculture, as "it's all relative" to control conditions in our case. We settled on calling it "ratio of abundances in community", which I guess is similar to "fold change"