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Andressa M. Venturini @aventurini.bsky.social · 7d

Assembling MAGs from Amazonian soils is a challenge, but it has become one of our most useful tools to understand these complex communities. Check out our new paper at MRA @asm.org doi.org/10.1128/mra.... in collaboration with @louberrios.bsky.social @jubgontijo.bsky.social @mykophile.bsky.social

A catalog of metagenome-assembled genomes from Amazonian forest and pasture soils | Microbiology Resource Announcements

Our group previously recovered 64 bacterial and 5 archaeal metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) from Amazonian forest and pasture soils and evaluated their genomic traits (1). Here, we formally announc...

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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · 22d

Is there a link to read about anvio?

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Eduardo Rocha @epcrocha.bsky.social · Sep 8

Willing to join us @pasteur.fr for a PhD for a project on how interactions between mobile genetic elements shape bacterial adaptation? Subject to be tailored to candidates with keen interest in evolution, genomics, computational biology, microbiology. Check www.pasteur.fr/en/education...

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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · Sep 7

While Logan has been wonderful for quite some time - I just recently have played with logan-search!
Such a time saving tool! 🔥 Thank you to the whole team with @rayanchikhi.bsky.social at the forefront of it 💎! 🙏🏼

Rayan Chikhi @rayanchikhi.bsky.social · Sep 3

Logan enables minute-scale k-mer search, and hour-scale deep homology protein alignment search, across 100+ Billion proteins.

www.logan-search.org

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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · Sep 7

This is the absolute beauty coming from @rayanchikhi.bsky.social et al! 🔥😍 If you don't quite yet fully know what Logan is and what it is capable of: check the 🧵 and most importantly the updated preprint 📑. One of those things to print and simply admire 🧠🩷

Rayan Chikhi @rayanchikhi.bsky.social · Sep 3

🌎👩‍🔬 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...

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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · Sep 3

congratulation on the medal! :)

Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · Sep 3

what a phenomenally beautiful people group has @evogytis.bsky.social and @mgabrielaite.bsky.social assembled! Thx for the invite! Had a 3-day-blast talking virology and afterwards dreaming while sleeping about all my virus metagenomics people enjoying their time in Monaco 😁 (too much F1 recently...)

Gytis Dudas @evogytis.bsky.social · Aug 28

Last week we had a 3-day lab retreat at Vilnius University's base in Puvočiai with Lander de Coninck & @ingrida.bsky.social joining us as visitors. These retreats keep getting better & more productive thanks to the students & especially fellow PI @mgabrielaite.bsky.social. I'm super proud!

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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · Sep 3

Already tomorrow! @rdrpsummit.bsky.social starts with journal club - be there from the start! ..be it for the Unicore publication ( @dongwookkim.bsky.social ) or joining / enjoying the community of virus discovery (& annotation).

September 4, 2025, from 14:00 to 14:45 CEST
rdrp.io/journal-club...

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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · Sep 3

what on earth is their methodology? cameras on the bums?
😅 >probably need to check the paper, but maybe someone already did<

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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · Aug 1

we just published it 6ish months ago in Lithuanian, and we started to feel that translation to english for the second edition - sounds like a good idea :)
Do you know any similar general-public oriented RNA books? maybe it's not needed, but maybe there is a niche:)

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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · Aug 1

ChatGPT version of RNA.. :D
#RNAday

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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · Aug 1

the forever increasing number of pubmed publications for RNA, and at the bottom: DNA graph, so we can 'adjust' for general growth in science. RNA looking pretty cool. Numbers and years provided for the peak value. X mlns are for the total number of publications

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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · Aug 1

Happy world RNA day! AUG1 🎉 🎉 🎉

While RNA is a magnificent molecule - world is still lacking the understanding of this diverse molecule!

This is why a bunch of us, RNA enthusiasts, wrote the book "Code: RNA" to Lithuania's general public.
#RNAday

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Gytis Dudas @evogytis.bsky.social · Jul 17

This is quite late but our lab has a preprint out about a SARS-CoV-2 situation we had in mink in Lithuania back in 2021. It's a doozy with re-emergence of extinct lineages, a country-wide test of all mink farms in Lithuania & some interesting dynamics in mink. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/5🧵

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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · Jun 21

I was a dell person before the switch! Will check it out thanks!

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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · Jun 20

One of the small life joys is how Macs with M chip batteries basically never die. You travel, forget your chargers etc - never a problem.

Apple switching to ARMs MX chips is actually a reason I finally made a transition from my non-apple computer to mac.

Happy weekend!

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Titus Brown @titus.idyll.org · Jun 19

how many 21-mers are shared between different species genomes at the genus level? #sourmash

Question about the impact of shared genus-level k-mers on abundance estimation · Issue #3694 · sourmash-bio/sourmash

Hi @ctb and collaborators, I had a thought recently and wanted to ask your input. I'm regularly using sourmash gather to estimate compositions (taxonomy + abundance), as well as Kraken and other no...

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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · Jun 9

Not just great k-mer content but some important historical facts (: Thanks @rayanchikhi.bsky.social !

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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · May 24

This is for sure my fav book. This is why I am going through it slowly. Thanks to Bluey (: can read it for a bit on a Saturday morning:).

"Promoting opportunity depends not only upon an open road, but upon an equal start" / R.H. Tawney "Equality" 1930.

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Nick Loman @pathogenomenick.bsky.social · May 22

And founding ARTIC member @ian-goodfellow.bsky.social (@uniofcam.bsky.social) will build innovative portable and low-cost laboratory solutions and training packages to accompany them, now working with new ARTIC investigator Jenny Molloy who will develop open-source wet lab reagents for sequencing

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Nick Loman @pathogenomenick.bsky.social · May 22

Absolutely thrilled to announce the launch of ARTIC2 - a £5.5M 5 year project funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social to build on the ARTIC approach of low-cost, globally accessible genome sequencing for surveillance of outbreaks, epidemics and endemic diseases: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/am...

Ambitious project to develop low-cost genome sequencing for pathogens known and unknown - University of Birmingham

Project will build on research that helped diagnostic labs to adopt sequencing capacity for COVID-19 and permit characterisation of future infectious threats

www.birmingham.ac.uk

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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · May 21

These avatars are so 😍 cute! Thanks for organising!

Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · May 21

Wellcome Genome campus started to feel like home :)
back for some bioinformatics talks, information, discussions... on microbes and public health. #ABPHM25

last week: info on RNA viruses, then: all viruses at ViBioM2025, today: microbes :)

🎊 90 countries >600 attendees!
Science is global! 🌏🌍🌎

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Oxford Martin School @oxmartinschool.bsky.social · May 15

What turns a virus spillover into an epidemic? 🌍🦠
Join leading experts to explore how AI, genomics & ecology shape epidemic forecasting.

📍Oxford Martin School & Online
⏰ May 19 5–6:15pm

Register here: https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/what-turns-spillovers-into-epidemics

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David Bikard @dbikard.bsky.social · May 18

I will be recruiting new postdocs with start dates end 2025 - early 2026. If you'd like to work at the Pasteur Institute in the heart of Paris surrounded by amazing scientists, reach out to discuss possible projects on SynBio / Bacterial Immunity!

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