Our preprint on our new metagenomic HiFi assembler Alice is out 🥳 Based on a *new sketching method* (🧵1/6)
👉 Preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
👉 Github github.com/rolandfaure/...

🌎👩‍🔬 For 15+ years biology has accumulated petabytes (million gigabytes) of🧬DNA sequencing data🧬 from the far reaches of our planet.🦠🍄🌵

Logan now democratizes efficient access to the world’s most comprehensive genetics dataset. Free and open.

doi.org/10.1101/2024...

Congratulations to Rayan Chiki, (Institut Pasteur) head of the “Sequence Bioinformatics” unit, for securing the ERC Proof of Concept 2025 for his project ENZYMINER! 👏

‪@rayan.chiki.bsky.social

#Bioinformatics

Slides from my talk (with @kamilsjaron.bsky.social) on an history of k-mers in bioinformatics: rayan.chikhi.name/pdf/2025-kme...

🧬 Excited to share our latest work, MUSET 🌭, a new tool for creating abundance unitig matrices from sequencing data. It was published yesterday in Oxford Bioinformatics if you want to have a look👀 :

academic.oup.com/bioinformati...

Let's break it down:

We have updated all Logan contigs (now at version 1.1)! Contiguity has been much improved (2x) and a duplicated k-mers bug has been fixed. More information and changelog here: github.com/IndexThePlan...

🚨 Keynotes at RECOMB-seq 2025! 🚨

🌟 Alicia Oshlack – computational transcriptomics
@aliciao.bsky.social

🌟 Rayan Chikhi – sequencing data structures
@rayanchikhi.bsky.social

🗓️ Dates: April 24–25, 2025
📍 Seoul, South Korea

recomb-seq.github.io/speakers/

Do you want to learn systematic ways in which you can revise your research papers? I've posted a short collection of 4 lectures youtube.com/playlist?lis... 1/n

Our Big Fantastic Virus Database (BFVD) is now published NAR! It contains protein structure predictions of major viral clades, enhanced by petabase-scale homology search and it's explorable on the web.
🌐 bfvd.foldseek.com
💾 bfvd.steineggerlab.workers.dev
📄 academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...