George Bouras
@gbouras13.bsky.social
Bioinformatics @UniofAdelaide @BHIresearch
- phages, microbes and more
- phages, microbes and more
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George Bouras
@gbouras13.bsky.social
· Aug 8
Protein Structure Informed Bacteriophage Genome Annotation with Phold
Bacteriophage (phage) genome annotation is essential for understanding their functional potential and suitability for use as therapeutic agents. Here we introduce Phold, an annotation framework utilis...
www.biorxiv.org
Stoked to finally have a preprint out for Phold, our tool that uses protein structural information to enhance phage genome annotation #phagesky 1/n
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Very excited to be in Adelaide to attend #ABACBS2025 . Australia is a powerhouse of microbial genomics, and indeed of bioinformatics, so am very much looking forward to meeting everyone, old friends and new, and speaking tomorrow!
November 24, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Very excited to be in Adelaide to attend #ABACBS2025 . Australia is a powerhouse of microbial genomics, and indeed of bioinformatics, so am very much looking forward to meeting everyone, old friends and new, and speaking tomorrow!
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Lunch with a view #ABACBS2025 #COMBINE2025
November 24, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Lunch with a view #ABACBS2025 #COMBINE2025
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November 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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The Shark Tank has begun! A fantastic initiative by the postdoc community to help build collaboration and support postdocs in pitching their grants. @abacbs.bsky.social #ABACBS2025
November 23, 2025 at 11:51 PM
The Shark Tank has begun! A fantastic initiative by the postdoc community to help build collaboration and support postdocs in pitching their grants. @abacbs.bsky.social #ABACBS2025
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Amazing hearing from Prof. Karin Kassahn, I really enjoyed hearing her journey and insights into clinical bioinformatics.
#ABACBS2025
#COMBINE2025
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#ABACBS2025
#COMBINE2025
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November 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Amazing hearing from Prof. Karin Kassahn, I really enjoyed hearing her journey and insights into clinical bioinformatics.
#ABACBS2025
#COMBINE2025
⚫️🔴
🔵⚪️
#ABACBS2025
#COMBINE2025
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Heading to Radelaide for #ABACBS2025 . Looking forward to catch up with old friends and nerd out on bioinformatics!
Checkout PhD student Peiwen Liu's poster on connectomeDB2025 (Quality matters!) connectomeDB.org
Checkout PhD student Peiwen Liu's poster on connectomeDB2025 (Quality matters!) connectomeDB.org
– ConnectomeDB2025
connectomeDB.org
November 23, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Heading to Radelaide for #ABACBS2025 . Looking forward to catch up with old friends and nerd out on bioinformatics!
Checkout PhD student Peiwen Liu's poster on connectomeDB2025 (Quality matters!) connectomeDB.org
Checkout PhD student Peiwen Liu's poster on connectomeDB2025 (Quality matters!) connectomeDB.org
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Enlightening session by Prof. Karin.
Career paths are not always straight
Embrace collaboration and grow with the technology
As bioinformaticians, we should continue to share how our roles and expertise contribute to different industries.
Next up: Lightening ⚡ talks!!!
#COMBINE2025
Career paths are not always straight
Embrace collaboration and grow with the technology
As bioinformaticians, we should continue to share how our roles and expertise contribute to different industries.
Next up: Lightening ⚡ talks!!!
#COMBINE2025
November 24, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Enlightening session by Prof. Karin.
Career paths are not always straight
Embrace collaboration and grow with the technology
As bioinformaticians, we should continue to share how our roles and expertise contribute to different industries.
Next up: Lightening ⚡ talks!!!
#COMBINE2025
Career paths are not always straight
Embrace collaboration and grow with the technology
As bioinformaticians, we should continue to share how our roles and expertise contribute to different industries.
Next up: Lightening ⚡ talks!!!
#COMBINE2025
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What a brilliant round of lightning talks - we heard about spatial transcriptomics, methylation, and drug resistance, among a variety of other topics. The presenters did a fantastic job using all 90 available seconds to pitch their projects - make it worth their while by checking out their posters!
November 24, 2025 at 1:44 AM
What a brilliant round of lightning talks - we heard about spatial transcriptomics, methylation, and drug resistance, among a variety of other topics. The presenters did a fantastic job using all 90 available seconds to pitch their projects - make it worth their while by checking out their posters!
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The careers panel with Dr. Johanna McEntyre, Prof. Alicia Oshlack, Dr. Amit Kumar, and Prof. Karin Kassahn begins soon! Make your way to the main room, and start thinking about questions to ask our experienced panel!
#COMBINE2025
#COMBINE2025
November 24, 2025 at 3:20 AM
The careers panel with Dr. Johanna McEntyre, Prof. Alicia Oshlack, Dr. Amit Kumar, and Prof. Karin Kassahn begins soon! Make your way to the main room, and start thinking about questions to ask our experienced panel!
#COMBINE2025
#COMBINE2025
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A fun icebreaker question to start the panel: Would you rather work with no-comment code or without version control?
Our panellists refuse to live without version control!
What's your take?
#COMBINE2025
Our panellists refuse to live without version control!
What's your take?
#COMBINE2025
November 24, 2025 at 3:40 AM
A fun icebreaker question to start the panel: Would you rather work with no-comment code or without version control?
Our panellists refuse to live without version control!
What's your take?
#COMBINE2025
Our panellists refuse to live without version control!
What's your take?
#COMBINE2025
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Really enjoyed the career panelists’ insights, such a valuable mix of experiences and perspectives!
#COMBINE2025
#ABACBS2025
⚫️🔴
🔵⚪️
#COMBINE2025
#ABACBS2025
⚫️🔴
🔵⚪️
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Really enjoyed the career panelists’ insights, such a valuable mix of experiences and perspectives!
#COMBINE2025
#ABACBS2025
⚫️🔴
🔵⚪️
#COMBINE2025
#ABACBS2025
⚫️🔴
🔵⚪️
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SPECTACULAR first day for #ABACBS2025
November 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
SPECTACULAR first day for #ABACBS2025
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The view in this room is amazing! #ABACBS2025
November 24, 2025 at 1:15 AM
The view in this room is amazing! #ABACBS2025
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In case you didn’t know your name badge folds out with more details on the program #ABACBS2025
November 24, 2025 at 4:37 AM
In case you didn’t know your name badge folds out with more details on the program #ABACBS2025
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Session 2 was all about base calling from Nanopore, contrastive learning in enzyme residue prediction, and sequence evolution in AMR genes. Thanks to Bonson Wong, William James Ferraro Rieger, and Bethany Cross for sharing their amazing research with us!
#COMBINE2025
#COMBINE2025
November 24, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Session 2 was all about base calling from Nanopore, contrastive learning in enzyme residue prediction, and sequence evolution in AMR genes. Thanks to Bonson Wong, William James Ferraro Rieger, and Bethany Cross for sharing their amazing research with us!
#COMBINE2025
#COMBINE2025
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The 3rd and Final session on Omics Methodology has kicked off with a talk on cell type annotation!
#COMBINE2025
#COMBINE2025
November 24, 2025 at 5:22 AM
The 3rd and Final session on Omics Methodology has kicked off with a talk on cell type annotation!
#COMBINE2025
#COMBINE2025
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Neglecting the bluesky account lately but that’s going to change with #ABACBS2025 tomorrow! Exciting to see old friends and make new ones! Are you going to be there? Let me know!
November 23, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Neglecting the bluesky account lately but that’s going to change with #ABACBS2025 tomorrow! Exciting to see old friends and make new ones! Are you going to be there? Let me know!
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Excited to be on my way to Adelaide for #ABACBS2025 with guest appearance at #COMBINE2025
November 22, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Excited to be on my way to Adelaide for #ABACBS2025 with guest appearance at #COMBINE2025
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Maybe we need the return of #ABACBS2025 conference bingo #confBingo? Is Breon Schmidt here?
November 21, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Maybe we need the return of #ABACBS2025 conference bingo #confBingo? Is Breon Schmidt here?
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🚀New preprint from our lab!
I am very excited to finally share what has been the main focus of my PhD for the past almost 3 years! It is about viral dark matter and a powerful tool we built to shed light on it. 🧬💡
Continue reading (🧵)
I am very excited to finally share what has been the main focus of my PhD for the past almost 3 years! It is about viral dark matter and a powerful tool we built to shed light on it. 🧬💡
Continue reading (🧵)
November 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
🚀New preprint from our lab!
I am very excited to finally share what has been the main focus of my PhD for the past almost 3 years! It is about viral dark matter and a powerful tool we built to shed light on it. 🧬💡
Continue reading (🧵)
I am very excited to finally share what has been the main focus of my PhD for the past almost 3 years! It is about viral dark matter and a powerful tool we built to shed light on it. 🧬💡
Continue reading (🧵)
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Excited to share our new review article on Viral Dark Matter led by PhD student @kosmopoulos.bsky.social. We talk about what is known and unknown in the world of viruses (specifically phage), and highlight future opportunities for research and biotechnology. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Viral Dark Matter: Illuminating Protein Function, Ecology, and Biotechnological Promises
Viruses are the most abundant biological entities on Earth and play central roles in shaping microbiomes and influencing ecosystem functions. Yet, most viral genes remain uncharacterized, comprising w...
pubs.acs.org
November 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Excited to share our new review article on Viral Dark Matter led by PhD student @kosmopoulos.bsky.social. We talk about what is known and unknown in the world of viruses (specifically phage), and highlight future opportunities for research and biotechnology. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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I worked with the Australian Science & Maths School to design new Year 10–12 curricula: phage hunting, of course! The students discovered & sequenced a new jumbo phage, and will present their work at @abacbs.bsky.social in Adelaide next week. Proud of these young scientists!
#phage #ABACBS2025
#phage #ABACBS2025
November 19, 2025 at 6:39 AM
I worked with the Australian Science & Maths School to design new Year 10–12 curricula: phage hunting, of course! The students discovered & sequenced a new jumbo phage, and will present their work at @abacbs.bsky.social in Adelaide next week. Proud of these young scientists!
#phage #ABACBS2025
#phage #ABACBS2025
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Last day to register for #ABACBS2025. Dont miss out on all of the fun! www.abacbs.org/abacbs2025
ABACBS 2025 Conference
Adelaide, South Australia. Nov. 24-
www.abacbs.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Last day to register for #ABACBS2025. Dont miss out on all of the fun! www.abacbs.org/abacbs2025
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We built GenoPHI: a machine learning workflow that predicts phage-host interactions at strain level. This could help rapidly select phages to treat drug-resistant bacterial infections or for microbiome engineering without exhaustive lab testing.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org
November 16, 2025 at 11:16 PM
We built GenoPHI: a machine learning workflow that predicts phage-host interactions at strain level. This could help rapidly select phages to treat drug-resistant bacterial infections or for microbiome engineering without exhaustive lab testing.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Walkthrough of the conference centre ahead of #ABACBS2025 later this month. Bit overcast in Adelaide today but hoping for clear skies at the conference ☀️🕶️
November 13, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Walkthrough of the conference centre ahead of #ABACBS2025 later this month. Bit overcast in Adelaide today but hoping for clear skies at the conference ☀️🕶️