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Forrest Lefler
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Cyanobacterial treatment, ecology, taxonomy and systematics, and (meta)genomics.
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Scihub stopped uploading new articles. SciDB is a continuing effort which has the entire scihub collection AND new papers.

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July 2, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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HMMER is the bedrock of genomic annotation globally, and now its funding is terminated for no reason.

@cryptogenomicon.bsky.social is now on bsky:
NIH funding supporting the HMMER and Infernal software projects has been terminated. NIH states that our work, as well as all other federally funded research at Harvard, is of no benefit to the US.
May 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Our group photo ❤️. Big thanks to all participants for their contributions.
May 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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" (...) it is very hard to interpret big data in ecology in meaningful ways if you do not know anything about who the organisms are and what they do in the environment."

(Jennifer Powers, A place for natural history in the 21st century, Biotropica. 2025;57:e13364. doi.org/10.1111/btp....)
December 18, 2024 at 11:49 PM