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jenarna.bsky.social @jenarna.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks for an inspiring and fruitful @nfdi4microbiota.bsky.social Annual Conference last week 💛
Our team of the #VirJenDB (Noriko, Sharam, Kilian) contributed with a poster💬 and a workshop with demo🤝 about this comprehensive virus sequence database 🦠 🧬 💻 #FAIRdata #metadata #viromics
➡️ virjendb.org

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jenarna.bsky.social @jenarna.bsky.social · 12d

ℹ️ This Wednesday at #DGHM2025 in Jena, Noriko gave a workshop on "Navigating #microbiomes through the lens of NFDI4Microbiota Services"! 🦠💪 #VirJenDB
Glad to have contributed to this year’s program - it was a great opportunity to share insights and exchange with the community!

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jenarna.bsky.social @jenarna.bsky.social · 12d

Big thanks to @linsalrob.bsky.social for a great and inspiring lunch yesterday during his visit to Jena! 🥗🥘🤝
Great conversation, fresh perspectives, and some ideas to take forward. 🧬🖥️🦘
#research #collaboration #bioinformatics

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jenarna.bsky.social @jenarna.bsky.social · 13d

Daria, Maria, Tom, and Kilian had a great time at the #GCB2025 in Düsseldorf this week, gaining many valuable insights to follow up 💪 and enjoying fruitful discussions about their posters
#MethylationBiomarkers #SugarTool #microsynteny #VirJenDB 🧬🔧🦠 👏

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jenarna.bsky.social @jenarna.bsky.social · 13d

👏Alex reported about our work in the Center for Early Pregnancy and Reproductive Health (CEPRE) at the @leibnizfli.bsky.social Seminar on Tuesday - "RNA sequencing and metagenomics for the analysis of patient-derived materials" 🧬 🩺
👉 www.uniklinikum-jena.de/cepre/en/SP+...

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jenarna.bsky.social @jenarna.bsky.social · 15d

📢 Tomorrow, Manja will speak at the LOEWE Research Cluster CoroPan Symposium about "Full #RNA viral #GenomeAlignments with conserved RNA #SecondaryStructure annotations", excited to discuss latest coronavirus research (besides SARS-CoV-2) and to meet good friends again!
🔗 eveeno.com/internationa...

LOEWE Research Cluster CoroPan Symposium

International Symposium on Coronavirusues LOEWE Research Cluster CoroPan

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jenarna.bsky.social @jenarna.bsky.social · 19d

📢 Part of our group will go to @gcb-bioinformatics.bsky.social next week! Join us at our posters to learn & discuss about:
🧬methylation biomarker detection in cancer research (P032)
🔧the tool sugar (P036) and it's application for identifying micro #synteny (P073)
🦠our virus database #VirJenDB (P109)

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jenarna.bsky.social @jenarna.bsky.social · 19d

🧾 Great paper by our doctoral researcher Maria and her collaboration partners from Belgium 🇧🇪 on the identification and functional genomic analyses of #Bartonella isolates from honey bees, and reassessment of the #taxonomy of the genus Bartonella 🐝

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jenarna.bsky.social @jenarna.bsky.social · 19d

🥳New publication by Manja and coauthors:
#Go game capture and reconstruction of missing moves using #DeepLearning techniques
🔗 doi.org/10.1109/CoG6...

Go Game Capture and Reconstruction of Missing Moves Using Deep Learning Techniques

Recording and broadcasting Go games in real time remains a challenging task, as traditional methods rely on electronic boards or manual transcription, both of which have limitations in cost, convenien...

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jenarna.bsky.social @jenarna.bsky.social · 19d

Our group #retreat was full of discussions, collaboration, inspiration, and laughter (plus plenty of snacks and board games) 👩‍💻🗣️👏🍪🎲
A great 4 days with the team! #sciencelife #teamwork #bioinformatics

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jenarna.bsky.social @jenarna.bsky.social · 19d

The summer semester is coming to an end and students are completing their final projects for the #Python lecture. Jan developed a smart energy management system to make optimal use of the energy generated by your solar cells 📉🌞🏡 #smarthome

➡️ janvogt06.github.io/SolarFlow-Sm...

SolarFlow - Smart Energy Manager

Smart Energy Manager - Maximize your solar self-consumption automatically

janvogt06.github.io

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jenarna.bsky.social @jenarna.bsky.social · Sep 5

Another busy bee 🐝 from the Marz group:
Nori presented the #VirJenDB at #CORDi 2025 (Conference on Research Data Infrastructure) last week in Aachen! 👏🖥️
🔗 virjendb.org

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jenarna.bsky.social @jenarna.bsky.social · Sep 5

Maria had a great time at the Microbes & RNA 2025 Meeting in #Strasbourg where she presented her #poster about #SweetSynteny, a #nextflow pipeline for nonambiguous identification of #ncRNA paralogues 👏🦠🧬📊 #MicrobialRNAs #conference

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jenarna.bsky.social @jenarna.bsky.social · Sep 2

Learn more about #SweetSynteny, a #nextflow pipeline for nonambiguous identification of #ncRNA paralogues
– Visit #poster WE-41 of our doctoral researcher Maria at the Microbes & RNA 2025 Meeting in #Strasbourg tomorrow! #MicrobialRNAs #conference 🦠🧬🇫🇷
microbialrnameeting.com/program/

Program – Microbes & RNA 2025

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jenarna.bsky.social @jenarna.bsky.social · Aug 29

🪢Viren falten ihre #RNA-Genome!
Wir haben alle #Pestivirus Genome untersucht und 32 gefaltete Strukturen entdeckt - Das könnte neue Wege eröffnen, Infektionen bei 🐖🐄🦇🐪🐭🐑🦒 zu bekämpfen.
➡️ Ganze Story im Blog: www.rna.uni-jena.de/unveiling-th...

Unveiling the genome of pestiviruses and its hidden potential for antiviral strategies

Some viruses affect us humans, like the now all-too-familiar coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, while others mainly affect animals, such as pestiviruses that can infect pigs, cows, and even wild animals. And …

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jenarna.bsky.social @jenarna.bsky.social · Aug 14

🎉Congratulations to our group member Alexander Eberhardt for the successful defense of his dissertation and throwing the flower wreath onto Hanfrieds sword🎓💪
He studied gene regulation mechanisms in cancer cells in the Bierhoff group at @leibnizfli.bsky.social and gave great insights into his work🧬⚕️

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jenarna.bsky.social @jenarna.bsky.social · Aug 2

📢 Fresh paper alert!
🧊 Tom wrote a Python framework called sugar, which aims to facilitate rapid application development in bioinformatics.
📖 Check it out here: joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21...
#python #bioinformatics

Sugar: A Python framework for bioinformatics

Eulenfeld, T., (2025). Sugar: A Python framework for bioinformatics. Journal of Open Source Software, 10(111), 8122, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.08122

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jenarna.bsky.social @jenarna.bsky.social · Jul 21

We had the pleasure of hosting Anne Pohlmann from the Lab for Biocuration of the FLI last week. She shared insights from huge (open) surveillance datasets of influenza virus outbreaks. One being that these are very hard to predict! Thank you Anne!
#research #avianflu #virus #surveillance

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jenarna.bsky.social @jenarna.bsky.social · Jun 26

Big thanks to our guest visitor Prof Horacio Guzman, head of the Biophysics & Intelligent Matter Lab at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid.
Great to meet you last week and hear about the work happening in your lab! #rnaproteininteractions #rna3dstructure #virus #capsids
@gocompmodeling.bsky.social

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jenarna.bsky.social @jenarna.bsky.social · Jun 14

🐝🐝🐝 Congrats to Maria, Manja, Jelle and co-authors on your new publication! Throrough phylogenetic analysis and classification of a Bee bacterial pathogen group, Bartonella, led to a proposal for taxonomic reclassification! Read more here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Identification and functional genomic analyses of Bartonella isolates from honey bees, and reassessment of the taxonomy of the genus Bartonella

We used matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry and whole-genome sequence analyses to identify 90 Bartonella isol…

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jenarna.bsky.social @jenarna.bsky.social · Apr 28

Check out our recently published paper about identifying RNA modifications from raw Nanopore data: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Congrats to Jannes, Manja and all the co-authors!

The RMaP challenge of predicting RNA modifications by nanopore sequencing - Communications Chemistry

RNA modifications play critical roles in gene expression regulation, RNA stability, and translation efficiency, however, the detection of RNA modifications by various sequencing approaches may present...

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jenarna.bsky.social @jenarna.bsky.social · Mar 7

Congrats to our #PhD student Sandra! She shared her discovery of conserved #RNA #secondarystructure features in the #Pestivirus family using a full genome alignment method at the #GfV2025 with an informative #poster

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jenarna.bsky.social @jenarna.bsky.social · Mar 6

☀️ Greetings from #Hamburg! Smiles from our #NFDI4Microbiota virus database team's booth at the #GfV2025.
Curious?
✅️ Check out the beta version of the #database for and by #virus researchers at virjendb.org!

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jenarna.bsky.social @jenarna.bsky.social · Mar 6

Hi everyone! We have recently moved here similarly to @uni-jena.de and look forward to sharing the scientific and fun news from our RNA Bioinformatics lab!

More at: rna.uni-jena.de

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