Prashant K
prash-k.bsky.social
Prashant K
@prash-k.bsky.social
Microbe tinkerer, synthetic biologist
Here's an excellent collection of bad graph practices and examples of improving them.

Bonus: Also includes R scripts that help you start on the right foot for making the better versions of plots!
Here is a thread showcasing my GitHub repositories: 1) Friends Don't Let Friends Make Bad Graphs. An opinionated essay on good and bad graphs.

My popular one by a long shot with 6.4k stars and 248 forks. github.com/cxli233/Frie...
March 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
We developed an RNA enzyme that adds barcodes to 16S rRNA to track bacterial DNA exchange in wastewater, identifying plasmid hosts via sequencing. This surpasses fluorescence methods by enabling multi-sample/plasmid analysis. Paper: go.nature.com/440gL5E. More technical details: shorturl.at/Y4KnA
Information storage across a microbial community using universal RNA barcoding - Nature Biotechnology
Barcoding microbial ribosomal RNA creates a recording of gene transfer events without requiring translation.
go.nature.com
March 23, 2025 at 4:16 AM