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“Bin Chicken” is now published in Nature Methods! It substantially improves genome recovery through rational coassembly 🧬🖥️. Applied to public 🌍 metagenomes, we recovered 24,000 novel species 🦠, including 6 new phyla.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
@benjwoodcroft.bsky.social @rhysnewell.bsky.social
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November 13, 2025 at 10:09 AM
“Bin Chicken” is now published in Nature Methods! It substantially improves genome recovery through rational coassembly 🧬🖥️. Applied to public 🌍 metagenomes, we recovered 24,000 novel species 🦠, including 6 new phyla.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
@benjwoodcroft.bsky.social @rhysnewell.bsky.social
🧵1/6
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
@benjwoodcroft.bsky.social @rhysnewell.bsky.social
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This is it. This is the best cheeky pun name for a research method.
Perfection.
This is it. This is the best cheeky pun name for a research method.
Perfection.
Bin Chicken: targeted metagenomic coassembly for the efficient recovery of novel genomes - Nature Methods
By developing a strategy of metagenomic coassembly and prioritizing divergent marker gene sequences, Bin Chicken efficiently recovers more than 77,000 microbial genomes with high novel diversity, ther...
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November 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This is it. This is the best cheeky pun name for a research method.
Perfection.
This is it. This is the best cheeky pun name for a research method.
Perfection.
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A game changer in our hands... www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Universal consensus 3D segmentation of cells from 2D segmented stacks - Nature Methods
u-Segment3D is a universal framework that translates and enhances 2D instance segmentations to a 3D consensus instance segmentation without training data. It performs well across diverse datasets, inc...
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November 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
A game changer in our hands... www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Pixel cut on glass. Dialing in machine alignment.
September 24, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Pixel cut on glass. Dialing in machine alignment.
13-mer on the new faceting machine
September 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
13-mer on the new faceting machine
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ICYMI, from Tom Richards, Stefano Pagliara et al, on how extant homochirality might have arisen
"we demonstrate that both membranes select for d-ribose and d-deoxyribose sugars while the hybrid membrane uniquely selects for a reduced alphabet of l-amino acids."
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
"we demonstrate that both membranes select for d-ribose and d-deoxyribose sugars while the hybrid membrane uniquely selects for a reduced alphabet of l-amino acids."
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Permeability selection of biologically relevant membranes matches the stereochemistry of life on Earth
Early in the evolution of life a biochemical network was encapsulated within a membrane compartment. This study shows that specific membrane forms can select for stereochemical compounds which match t...
journals.plos.org
September 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
ICYMI, from Tom Richards, Stefano Pagliara et al, on how extant homochirality might have arisen
"we demonstrate that both membranes select for d-ribose and d-deoxyribose sugars while the hybrid membrane uniquely selects for a reduced alphabet of l-amino acids."
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
"we demonstrate that both membranes select for d-ribose and d-deoxyribose sugars while the hybrid membrane uniquely selects for a reduced alphabet of l-amino acids."
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Finished another cross bar cut blue topaz
August 2, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Finished another cross bar cut blue topaz
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![Comic. The Most-Observed Animal and Plant in Each State on iNaturalist. (Not the most common species in the state, just the one people have reported the most times.) [labeled map of the US] WA: Mallard/Western Sword Fern. OR: Mule Deer/Western Ponderosa Pine. CA: Western Fence Lizard/California Poppy. HI: Green Sea Turtle/‘Ōhi’a Lehua. ID: Mallard/Big Sagebrush. NV: Common Side-Blotched Lizard/Creosote Bush. MT: White-Tailed Deer/Common Yarrow. WY: American Bison/Sticky Geranium. UT: Mule Deer/Utah Juniper. AZ: Ornate Tree Lizard/Saguaro. CO: Mule Deer/Great Mullein. NM: Mule Deer/Creosote Bush. AK: Moose/Fireweed. ND: American Bison/Prairie Rose. SD: American Bison/Hoary Vervain. NE: American Robin/Common Milkweed. KS: Ornate Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. OK: Pond Slider/Eastern Redcedar. TX: Northern Cardinal/Pinladies. MN, WI, IL: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Common Milkweed. IA, MI: White-Tailed Deer/Common Milkweed. MO: Brown-Belted Bumble Bee/Amur Honeysuckle. AR: Three-toed Box Turtle/Chinese Privet. LA: Green Anole/Baldcypress. IN: American Robin/Amur Honeysuckle. OH: Eastern Pondhawk/Virginia Springbeauty. KY: Common Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. TN: American Robin/Christmas Fern. MS: Northern Cardinal/Pale Pitcher Plant. AL: Gulf Fritillary/American Sweetgum. GA: Green Anole/American Sweetgum. FL: Brown Anole/White Beggarticks. NY: Eastern Gray Squirrel/White Snakeroot. PA: White-Tailed Deer/Garlic Mustard. WV: White-Tailed Deer/Great Rhododendron. VA: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern Poison Ivy. MD: White-Tailed Deer/Wineberry. DE: Fowler’s Toad/American Pokeweed. NC: Eastern Gray Squirrel/Christmas Fern. SC: Northern Cardinal/American Sweetgum. NJ: Spotted Lanternfly/Common Mugwort. VT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. NH: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern White Pine. MA: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. CT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Striped Wintergreen. RI: American Herring Gull. ME: American Herring Gull/Canadian Bunchberry.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreic4f56ywseq7bqc7zza3y76pxyzn5c5htebrior6jdbrfszhuiquy@jpeg)
July 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Just out: we used SReD to measure the periodicity of spectrin rings along axons, finely capturing the effect of actin depolymerization. This and many more applications ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Another great collab with @henriqueslab.bsky.social, congrats @afonsomendes92.bsky.social et al 🙏
Another great collab with @henriqueslab.bsky.social, congrats @afonsomendes92.bsky.social et al 🙏
July 2, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Just out: we used SReD to measure the periodicity of spectrin rings along axons, finely capturing the effect of actin depolymerization. This and many more applications ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Another great collab with @henriqueslab.bsky.social, congrats @afonsomendes92.bsky.social et al 🙏
Another great collab with @henriqueslab.bsky.social, congrats @afonsomendes92.bsky.social et al 🙏
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We are excited to share our development of a new 10X lens with NA=0.50 over a 7.2 mm FOV and a 35 mm working distance (water), fully corrected from 400-850 nm. This lens will power our upcoming ExA-SPIM "2" and is available for dissemination - please get in touch if interested!
May 19, 2025 at 1:10 PM
We are excited to share our development of a new 10X lens with NA=0.50 over a 7.2 mm FOV and a 35 mm working distance (water), fully corrected from 400-850 nm. This lens will power our upcoming ExA-SPIM "2" and is available for dissemination - please get in touch if interested!
Triforce cut in synthetic topaz
March 6, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Triforce cut in synthetic topaz
Opposing bar cut in sky blue synthetic topaz
March 6, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Opposing bar cut in sky blue synthetic topaz