💾 Prokka 1.15.6 is released!

This is the last major release of Prokka. But don't be sad, because @oschwengers.bsky.social already has an excellent replacement called Bakta you can migrate to.
#bioinformatics #microbiology #genomics

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Soil viruses are important regulators of ecosystem function, but what are their roles in environments that face long-term degradation and restoration? In our paper published today in Nature Micro, we asked how soil viruses influence peatland recovery, and vice versa. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hybridisation breaks species barriers in long-term coevolution of a cyanobacterial population.
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Easy and interactive taxonomic profiling with Metabuli App.
It integrates database curation, read QC, taxonomic profiling, and visualization right on your desktop.
No command line, server, or internet required.
Now published in Bioinformatics! 🧵1/5
doi.org/10.1093/bioi...
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Happy to share that the paper describing Autocycler is now 100% up:
doi.org/10.1093/bioi...
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A postdoc position in genomics available at our infrastructure in Uppsala, Sweden! An interesting R&D role a bit outside the traditional academic environment, great colleagues, work at the forefront of (long-read) sequencing.

www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

New Course – Live & Online
Tidyverse for Ecologists
June 16th–20th, 2025
Instructor: Dr. Gabriel Palma

This hands-on course covers ggplot2, dplyr, tidyr, and more.

#rstats #ecology #tidyverse #dataanalysis #openecology #rstatsforbiologists #dataviz

Full details:
www.prstats.org/course/tidyv...

Great job alert: ProPublica is hiring a computational journalist, "someone who will use technology and data to identify and unlock stories that would otherwise be out of reach."

Salary: $120K-$140K
Remote: ✅

Come join us!

Excited to share BakRep - our latest work published in
@MicrobioSoc
#MGen

>661,000 bacterial genomes, uniformly characterized & annotated, enriched with metadata, accessible via a flexible search engine:

doi.org/10.1099/mgen...

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Microbes are everywhere, but postdocs are hard to find: apply before the end of the month: vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Post...

This work is a nice investigation of how the expected mathematical relationship between number of reads and breadth of coverage can inform "true" detection in metagenomes:
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

And on GitHub: github.com/davidesangui...

I've got a fully funded, 4-year PhD position available to work on virus-bacteria interactions in soils. Part of the GenerationResearch scheme at York aimed at widening access to postgrad research. Please share!
generationresearch.ac.uk/phd_proposal...

Hi everyone,
I am happy to share that a permanent data scientist position is very likely to be opened in our group.

We're looking for people interested in working with statistics and computers in a wide variety of research questions in genetics.

The application process will be at jobs.inrae.fr

Ryan Wick has tested out the latest kits and basecalling for bacterial genome assembly:

rrwick.github.io/2023/10/24/o...

At assembly error rates like this I start to begin wondering what is "ground truth"