"The untapped potential of short-read sequencing in biodiversity research"
by Christoph Bleidorn (@cblei.bsky.social) et al

"Genomic resources have the potential to transform our understanding of the vast, still largely unknown diversity of species..."

More at:
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Out now: our article arguing why short-read sequencing will remain highly relevant to biodiversity research. This is especially true when working with museum-preserved material, as is often the case in systematic studies.

www.cell.com/trends/genet...

‪@saabalde.bsky.social & Jondelius characterize opsins and phototransduction genes in Xenacoelomorpha, identifying cnidarian-like and lineage-specific opsins.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf078

#genome #evolution #bilateria

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Our latest publication compare 4 compession tools, namely DRAGEN ORA, Genozip, repaq, and SPRING, for compressing short-read sequencing data.

Available from today in Scientific Reports: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Taking the pulse of meiofauna research in 2025. My biggest take-home message as the head of one panel: evolutionary genomics is not (yet) anywhere near reaching its potential in this field, partly because of a lack of visibility/interdisciplinary education. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Today's #IcyInverts blog post is about our efforts to take the best possible photos of live animals and meticulous data recording for each specimen we sample while in #Antarctica. @uofalabama.bsky.social
www.icyinverts.com/shipboard-bl...
#ConfusingCrustaceans #SweatTheSmallStuff

nf-core/variantbenchmarking v1.0.0: Nextflow pipeline to evaluate and validate the accuracy of variant calling methods https://github.com/nf-core/variantbenchmarking 🧬🖥️🧪