Keith Jolley
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Keith Jolley
@kjolley.bsky.social
Bioinformatician in the Department of Biology, University of Oxford.
Working on microbial genomics | Developer of @PubMLST.org and BIGSdb | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0751-0287
BIGSdb v1.51.4 has been released. This adds a new #Kaptive plugin for surface polysaccharide typing of Acinetobacter baumannii and Klebsiella. github.com/kjolley/BIGS... for details. Kaptive is developed by @tomstantonmicro.bsky.social, @kelwyres.bsky.social , @katholt.bsky.social and colleagues.
July 18, 2025 at 7:57 AM
BIGSdb v1.50.1 has been released. This adds support for Neighbour-Joining trees in GrapeTree. Full release notes at github.com/kjolley/BIGS...
January 8, 2025 at 10:38 AM
BIGSdb v1.50.0 has been released, introducing support for registering fields from the output of third-party analysis tools and then using these in queries and analyses (image shows querying hicap results in H. influenzae database).
December 2, 2024 at 10:03 AM
Quote post with a sunset pic you took yourself.

Big Bay, Cape Town, South Africa
November 15, 2024 at 6:59 PM
BIGSdb v1.47.0 has been released and is now live on @PubMLST. This introduces an embargo system for isolate submissions. If enabled, submitters will now see an option to request an embargo when they submit isolates.
June 27, 2024 at 1:31 PM
After a disastrous 9/11 honeymoon in NYC, we finally made it back a few weeks ago.
June 9, 2024 at 3:07 PM
BIGSdb v1.46.2 has been released. This removes the option of using BingMaps for mapping as Microsoft will be retiring this service next year. It has been replaced with options to use MapTiler and Esri/ArcGIS services with existing OpenStreetMap. github.com/kjolley/BIGS.... BIGSdb powers pubmlst.org.
May 31, 2024 at 8:14 AM
I leave my seat for one minute...
May 19, 2024 at 12:18 PM
February 7, 2024 at 6:15 PM
First post!
BIGSdb v1.42.5 has been released. This introduces a new plugin that provides a wrapper for ReporTree (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37322495/) – a tool for the automated identification of genetic clusters. BIGSdb powers all the databases on PubMLST. github.com/kjolley/BIGSdb.
October 19, 2023 at 8:33 AM