Rob Edwards
linsalrob.bsky.social
Rob Edwards
@linsalrob.bsky.social
Bioinformatician and microbiologist at Flinders University in Adelaide. @linsalrob on all your socials
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Perfecting bacterial genome assembly with Autocycler - from the one and only Ryan Wick #ABACBS2025
November 26, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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@rrwick.bsky.social solving all of our problems in long-read bacterial genome assembly with Autocycler. 😃🧬🦠 #ABACBS2025
November 26, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Loved hearing Dr. Ryan Wick’s talk on genome assemblies with Autocycler. Really amazing hearing from him as I use a lot of his tools in my every day work!

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November 26, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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iplotx by Fabio Zanini supports visualising any network or tree analysis library. Can’t wait to visualise assembly graphs with iplotx! 🤩💻 #ABACBS2025 @abacbs.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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It was great to present TRECA at ABACBS 2025 as a lightening talk.

Come find my poster #21.

#ABACBS2025 @abacbs.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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With Slorado, now you have more choices for GPUs when basecalling @nanoporetech.com sequencing data. This is a work we collaborated on with AMD, led by
PhD candidate @bonson-wong.bsky.social (poster at #abacbs2025) and great to see being highlighted in the AMD blog: www.amd.com/en/blogs/202...
www.amd.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Keeping the naming convention - PholdAPhage - great work Renee github.com/reneegreen81... #ABACBS2025
November 24, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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A great discussion today at #ABACBS2025 on the evolving landscape of research funding in Australia. Insightful perspectives, thoughtful questions, and a much needed conversation for our research community. @abacbs.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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In case you didn’t know your name badge folds out with more details on the program #ABACBS2025
November 24, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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Time for @zaminiqbal.bsky.social ‘s keynote #ABACBS2025
November 25, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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Great talk from Michael Payne at #ABACBS2025 on DAMPA - tool for designing probe panels for targeted metagenomics using pangenome graphs! Captures all diversity efficiently, uses fewer probes than competitors. Critical for syndromic surveillance! 🧬🔬 #Metagenomics
November 25, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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10 incredible years of bioinformatics and computational biology community building by @abacbs.bsky.social - enjoying catching up with old friends at #abacbs2025 🥂
@aliciao.bsky.social @nadia-davidson.bsky.social @shazanfar.bsky.social @ellispatrick.bsky.social Jean Yang Belinda Phipson Milica Ng
November 25, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Very excited to be in Adelaide to attend #ABACBS2025 . Australia is a powerhouse of microbial genomics, and indeed of bioinformatics, so am very much looking forward to meeting everyone, old friends and new, and speaking tomorrow!
November 24, 2025 at 12:11 AM
"anything [in the INSDC] from >10 years ago is such a small blip, it would take you longer to find it and delete it than its worth, you might as well leave it be".

Sequence data production is exponential!

Dr Joanna McEntyre, EMBL-EBI

#ABACBS2025
November 24, 2025 at 11:23 PM
@ebi.embl.org serves an incredible amount of data to support biological sciences

Exabytes of data but the biggest growth nowadays is imaging data

Dr Joanna McEntyre. Interim Director, EMBL-EBI

#ABACBS2025
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Amazing way to start the conference on beautiful Kaurna Country
A beautiful Welcome to Country by Robbie Young and Acknowledgment of Country in language by the Governor of SA @abacbs.bsky.social #ABACBS2025
November 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
This is fantastic work #phagesky
🚀New preprint from our lab!
I am very excited to finally share what has been the main focus of my PhD for the past almost 3 years! It is about viral dark matter and a powerful tool we built to shed light on it. 🧬💡
Continue reading (🧵)
November 21, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I worked with the Australian Science & Maths School to design new Year 10–12 curricula: phage hunting, of course! The students discovered & sequenced a new jumbo phage, and will present their work at @abacbs.bsky.social in Adelaide next week. Proud of these young scientists!

#phage #ABACBS2025
November 19, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Also, hurry up and book a hotel room already!
Only 13 days, 12 hours, 45 minutes, and 5 seconds until #ABACBS2025!

Check out the full program and you can still register (dinner & workshops are almost sold out though!) www.abacbs.org/abacbs2025
ABACBS 2025 Conference
Adelaide, South Australia. Nov. 24-
www.abacbs.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Only 13 days, 12 hours, 45 minutes, and 5 seconds until #ABACBS2025!

Check out the full program and you can still register (dinner & workshops are almost sold out though!) www.abacbs.org/abacbs2025
ABACBS 2025 Conference
Adelaide, South Australia. Nov. 24-
www.abacbs.org
November 10, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Expressions of interest are now open to host the @isvm-society.bsky.social #VOM28 conference.

Let us know if you'd like to host the world's leading conference on viruses of microbes!

isvm.org

#phagesky #virus
ISVM – International Society for Viruses of Microorganisms
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November 3, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Day 31, Costume. Phage-inducible chromosomal islands (PICIs) use the proteins of incoming phage that infect the they inhabit. These phage proteins allow the PICI to package its own DNA and infect a new host. www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
October 31, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Congratulations to Dr. @npbhavya.bsky.social and bon voyage. Good luck in your new adventures in Europe

(Featuring #phagesky artwork by @elliejameson.bsky.social )
October 30, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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@prczhaoyansong.bsky.social’s deep dive into the dark matter of compost communities is now out 🎉 Genomic islands hijack jumbo phages—whose capsids enable transfer of large tracts of DNA—shedding new light on the scale & scope of phage-mediated gene flow 😎

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Jumbo phage–mediated transduction of genomic islands | PNAS
Bacteria acquire new genes by horizontal gene transfer, typically mediated by mobile genetic elements (MGEs). While plasmids, bacteriophages, and c...
www.pnas.org
October 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Day 21, Secret. Prophages hidden within bacteria can confer genetic gifts on their host and protect them from further phage infection. #Drawtober #SciArt #PhageSky
October 21, 2025 at 8:25 PM