Our paper identifying a stop codon reassignment in Eggerthellaceae species found in mammalian guts is now out! Great collaborative effort with Pierre Chaumeil, Maria Chuvochina, and Phil Hugenholtz (@xrefugee13.bsky.social). www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour... @microbiologysociety.org

Stop codon reassignment to tryptophan in members of the bacterial phylum Actinomycetota

Reassignment of stop codons is a significant evolutionary event with recoding of UGA to tryptophan being previously identified in only three bacterial phyla, the Bacillota, Pseudomonadota and Verrucom...

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Genome Taxonomy Database @xrefugee13.bsky.social is a finalist in the @ardc.edu.au Eureka Prize for Excellence in Data Platforms. Learn more: youtu.be/1nztCU6Oz-E #EurekaPrizes

GTDB release 11 based on RefSeq 232 (R11-RS232) is live at gtdb.ecogenomic.org. This release covers 901,341 genomes (23% increase) and has 199,923 species clusters (39% increase). Release notes at: forum.gtdb.ecogenomic.org/t/announcing.... Release statistics at: gtdb.ecogenomic.org/stats/r232.

I’m please to announce that our research on a faecal mNGS assay has been published. Our findings highlight the potential for mNGS to improve clinical diagnostics by providing a high-resolution view of rare pathogens and AMR genes in a single test. www.frontiersin.org/journals/cel...

Frontiers | Metagenomics enables parallel detection of 176 clinically relevant targets from faecal samples

BackgroundRobust identification of pathogens is essential for managing patients with symptomatic infection, yet conventional diagnostic methods focus on a su...

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