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RdRp Summit

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A discussion-centric event that aims to foster reproducibility, collaboration & interoperability in omics-derived RNA virus discovery. 2nd RdRp Summit - May 11 & 12 2025. RdRp.io

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RdRp Summit @rdrpsummit.bsky.social · May 11

Lunch breaks are for good food and even better (RdRp) conversations! ❣️💃🏻
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Tatiana Demina @deminatanja.bsky.social · May 15

Many thanks to all who contributed to #RdRpSummit2025 & #ViBioM2025, making these meetings such great platforms for sharing #virus research insights and new #bioinformatics tools! An amazing week of networking & (a bit of) sightseeing in beautiful Lisbon ❤️ @rdrpsummit.bsky.social @evbc.bsky.social

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RdRp Summit @rdrpsummit.bsky.social · May 12

Closing remarks by our lead organizer Ingrida Olendraite :'(
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RdRp Summit @rdrpsummit.bsky.social · May 12

Alexander Lucaci kicks off the second RdRp Summit consensus statement!

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RdRp Summit @rdrpsummit.bsky.social · May 12

Spyros Lytras introduces the community project on structure based phylogeny and function prediction!

RdRp Summit @rdrpsummit.bsky.social · May 12

Thomas Krannich is introducing the community project on benchmarking various aspects of RNA viral discovery.
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RdRp Summit @rdrpsummit.bsky.social · May 12

Tatiana Demina discussing the initiative on RNA virus journal club!
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RdRp Summit @rdrpsummit.bsky.social · May 12

Rachid Tahzima's presenting the community project start-up on RNA virus host inference!

RdRp Summit @rdrpsummit.bsky.social · May 12

Finding new viruses is cool, but Gytis Dudas highlighted everything one can do with viruses we already know!
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RdRp Summit @rdrpsummit.bsky.social · May 12

You can read about BVFD here doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

RdRp Summit @rdrpsummit.bsky.social · May 12

Our next keynote speaker, Rachel Kim, introduces us to BVFD. Now we know what the "F" stands for :)
Truly FANTASTIC work!
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RdRp Summit @rdrpsummit.bsky.social · May 12

Lucaprot increases the known diversity of RNA viruses!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Using artificial intelligence to document the hidden RNA virosphere

A deep learning algorithm (LucaProt) that integrates both sequence and predicted structural information was employed to identify highly divergent RNA viral “dark matter” in 10,487 metatranscriptomes f...

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RdRp Summit @rdrpsummit.bsky.social · May 12

Unravelling the viral dark matter! Our first keynote speaker Xin Hou works with transformer-based AI models for structural prediction, helping detect highly divergent RNA viruses! @xinhou.bsky.social

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RdRp Summit @rdrpsummit.bsky.social · May 12

Our sponsor @peercommunityin.bsky.social is here to talk all about shunting the exploitative publishing culture.

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RdRp Summit @rdrpsummit.bsky.social · May 12

Introducing PREDICTORix to predict spillover risk to cause potential pandemics.
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RdRp Summit @rdrpsummit.bsky.social · May 12

Searching through uncharacterized proteins to find endogenous viral elements. You can read all about it here- doi.org/10.1101/2024...

Uncovering hundreds of exogenous and endogenous RNA viral RdRp sequences amongst uncharacterised sequences in public protein databases

Public databases of protein sequences, such as the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Protein repository and UniProt, contain millions of proteins identified in samples from specific...

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RdRp Summit @rdrpsummit.bsky.social · May 12

Detecting endogenous viral elements in characterized proteins by Katy Brown

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Spyros Lytras @spyroslytras.bsky.social · May 12

Great time in Lisbon so far at @rdrpsummit.bsky.social ! Looking forward to another day of great talks and discussing the future of RNA virus discovery!

+ #ViBioM2025 starting tonight! Can't wait to see lots more friends! 😁😁

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RdRp Summit @rdrpsummit.bsky.social · May 12

Wanna read the Logan preprint? You can do it here!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Logan: Planetary-Scale Genome Assembly Surveys Life’s Diversity

The NCBI Sequence Read Archive (SRA) is the largest public repository of DNA sequencing data, containing the most comprehensive snapshot of Earth’s genetic diversity to date. As its size exceeds 50.0 ...

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RdRp Summit @rdrpsummit.bsky.social · May 12

Logan's the perfect way to kick-start the second day!
Thank you, Rayan Chikhi @rayanchikhi.bsky.social

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RdRp Summit @rdrpsummit.bsky.social · May 12

Are you ready for day 2 of the #RdRpSummit2025??

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RdRp Summit @rdrpsummit.bsky.social · May 11

SAMEEEEEE!! 🌈🌈

RdRp Summit @rdrpsummit.bsky.social · May 11

You can find RdRpCATCH here
github.com/dimitris-kar...

GitHub - dimitris-karapliafis/RdRpCATCH: A community effort to create a shared resource for HMM-based RdRp discovery

A community effort to create a shared resource for HMM-based RdRp discovery - dimitris-karapliafis/RdRpCATCH

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RdRp Summit @rdrpsummit.bsky.social · May 11

Introducing RdRpCATCH- mining RNA viruses using RdRp HMMs!
Dimitris Karapliafis is here to talk about the community project we took up during the 2023 RdRp Summit!
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RdRp Summit @rdrpsummit.bsky.social · May 11

We were happy to have you here with us. Definitely looking forward to the MIUVIG2 and happy to brainstorm as a community together! :)

RdRp Summit @rdrpsummit.bsky.social · May 11

You can read all about their study here -
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Detection of viral sequences at single-cell resolution identifies novel viruses associated with host gene expression changes

Nature Biotechnology - A workflow using conserved amino acid domains identifies viruses in sequence data at single-cell resolution.

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