Today we had a nice presentation by Isabel Monte @isabelmonte.bsky.social at IBMCP seminar. She presented about evolution of receptor kinase-mediated immune signaling in plants. SERKs regulate conserved processes in land plants. Their ECD diversified their role in reproduction but loopB in immunity.

We close the #JABI2026 with. A plenary presentation by Francisco J. Veredas which will talk about large language models (LLM) in #bioinformatics.

Alicia Paredes opens the last sesión at the #JABI2026 about the use of #AI and #data_science in bioinformatics and biomedicine. She presents about cardiac insufficiency phenotype identification using AI.

Martin Garrido-Rodríguez brings us a great presentation about #descriptive_multiomics and predictive #systems_biology in today’s plenary at #JABI2026.

Last day at the #JABI2026 starts with a presentation by Maria Angeles Vargas-Perez which will be presenting about the mitochondria variant analysis of cloned horses.

Maria Toro closes the second #JABI2026 day with a presentation about microbiomes, genomes and how the scientific data is integrated in a genomic health platform.

#JABI2026 Session 4 (microbial #bioinformatics) starts with a presentation by Ana Lasa about the analysis of the rhizosphere of the melojo oak.

We come back after the #JABI2026 coffee break with #bioinformatic platforms, resources, and outreach with a presentation by Rocio Bautista about the Picasso supercomputer.

Fatima Sanchez follows the clinical bioinformatics session at #JABI2026 with a plenary presentation about about #digitsl_twins applied to cardiovascular research.

After a wonderful first day, we come back to the #JABI2026 with the clinical #bioinformatics session opened by Ignacio Garach.

I have some news! Fabio Fornara and I published a book! We are very happy of it!

The IV Andalusian Bioinformatics Days (JABI2026) starts with the wonderful introduction by the coordinator Jose V. Die.

We have done our first @protocolsio.bsky.social. Are you interested about #genome_annotation quality evaluation? We have developed a tool called #GAQET2 (github.com/victorgcb198...) which runs several tools like #AGAT, #BUSCO, and many other tools. You can find it at www.protocols.io/view/structu...

This week I have the wonderful opportunity to present our results for the @catbiogenoma.bsky.social at the @iec.cat in Barcelona with many students and colleagues that I appreciate and admire. For a #genobotanist like me always amazed me #biodiversity in all its forms. Thanks!!! 🌿🌾🍄‍🟫🐚🪸🐊🐟🦀🦑🦎🐍🦋🪱🦉

Day 2 on #BCBGENO2025 course has been focused on the genome assembly, from reads to the contigs. Algorithms, methodologies, programs, a little bit of history and many many exercises... up to 16 different ones exploring short, and specially long read assemblies, from #ONT to #PBHiFi.

A good HMW DNA extraction can safe you a lot of time during the genome assembly. @tank-silvia.bsky.social (from @irnasa.bsky.social) explained on the first day at #BCBGENO2025 course about #experimental_design, #HMW_DNA extractions, and #DNA_sequencing.

A Kmer profile can give you a lot of information for your genome before you perform the #genome_assembly. At the end of the first day at the #BCBGENO2025 course, I asked the student to interpret the following #Kmer_profiles for 8 different datasets. Would you be able to make sense of these profiles?

We have started a new online course #BCBGENO2025 about #genome #assembly, #annotation & #analysis by @csic.es, @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social & @segenetica.bsky.social. Two months with 9 days of 4 hours sessions, and many many activities focused in #skill_development. conexion-bcb.csic.es/microcredenc...

We close the #biodiversity25 conference with a keynote presentation by Ute Hentschel Humeida about the basis of #sponge #symbiosis. “Life has evolved in a sea of microbes”. Microbial diversity already existed before the diversification of Eukaryotes. Host-microbes symbiosis appeared early in time.

Sam Speak closes the session at the #biodiversity25 with a presentation about #tilapia and the gene positive #selection for saline environments. There are 70 tilapia species with variation in saline tolerance. They sequenced several genomes within this group finding twelve positive selected genes.

Beam Danneels continues at the #biodiversity25 with a presentation about resistant chemical pollutants and induced defenses in #marine_mammals (#chemical_defensome, Chad). Cetaceans lost 2 keys TF involved in the ChD. They have developed a different path. Comparative genomics gave us some insights.

Ashwini V. Mohan follows at the #biodiversity25 presenting about the #limbless Layard’s snake skink. Snakes and caecilians lost their limbs due variations in one gene, but limbless #lizards have multiple evolutionary paths. They sequenced the Nessia layardi genome (1.55Gb) native to SriLanka.

Amanda Gardiner follows at the #biodiversity25 with a presentation about #genetic_diversity in sharks, rays and other vertebrates. She analyzed ROH, homozygous regions in vertebrates genomes produced by the VGP. Critically endangered species have more frequently long ROH than other species.

Niklas Wahlberg opens last day session at the #biodiversity25 with a wonderful presentation about diversification in #Lepidoptera. More than 1000 Lepidoptera #genomes have been sequenced! Some families have more than 100 reference genomes. They have been able to learn many things from them.

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Simona Buonanno closes the 2nd day session at #biodiversity25 presenting benthic genomes in #ascidians. Botryllus schlosseri is a #species_complex. They sequenced 9 ascidian species, including 2 clades of B. schlosseri. BUSCO was higher than 90% for all the genomes.

Elisa Ramos brings us a presentation about #gulls at the #biodiversity25. The large white-headed gulls lineage has one of the faster #radiation processes of the birds of the northern hemisphere. LarOmics project aims to elucidate the genetic base of the gull #evolution.

Callum Thomas follows in the afternoon session at #biodiversity25 talking about the development of a #black_soldier_fly #pangenome. They can be used to produce protein for animals feeding. They can be fed by food waste. They are building a pangenome with individuals from different populations.

Camilla Mazzoni follows at the #biodiversity25 with a presentation about #sloths. Analysis of these genomes revealed that sloths have the higher content of LTR/copia in mammals, some impacting metabolic mitochondrial genes. Genomic studies can help to implement more efficient conservation actions.

Claire Merot opens the afternoon session at the #biodiversity25 with a presentation about the structural genetic diversity across the tree of life. Structural variants (SVs) are in order de magnitude higher than SNPs. TEs accounts for many SVs. SVs are different across different lineages.