I’ve been maintaining a list of shotgun #metagenomics tools and resources which I got Claude to turn into a GitHub repo. It has 300+ entries. Please share and tell me if I’ve missed anything! github.com/feargalr/Met... #microbiota #bioinformatics #microbiome #genomics

GitHub - feargalr/Metagenomics-tools-atlas: An inventory of tools and resources for short-read shotgun metagenomics.

An inventory of tools and resources for short-read shotgun metagenomics. - feargalr/Metagenomics-tools-atlas

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TaxSEA v1.4 is now available in the latest Bioconductor release. This adds single-sample TaxSEA (ssTaxSEA), extending enrichment analysis to individual #microbiome samples. feargalr.github.io/TaxSEA/ Examples 👇 #metagenomics #Bioconductor #microbiota #microbiology

Pesticides may wreak havoc on the gut microbiome Disruption of intestinal ecosystem could contribute to diabetes & other health issues, scientists say I enjoyed discussing our research on the impact of pesticides on the microbiome with Sanket Jain for @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

Very interesting read. www.asimov.press/p/bioinforma... (Thanks to @torstenseemann.bsky.social for sharing over on the #ABACBS slack)

A Brief History of Bioinformatics Software

How computer scientists on the fringes of biology made sense of sequencing data.

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Join my campaign to properly fund medical research in Australia 🔬 www.moniqueryan.com.au/medical_rese...

We are delighted to announce that #ABACBS2026 will be held at RMIT, Melbourne CBD campus from 16th to 20th November 2026. Big thanks to A/Prof. Sonika Tyagi and team for leading this years organising! More details and official conference launch to follow! #bioinformatics @combine1.bsky.social

If anyone waiting for NHMRC to announce investigator grants can tolerate a LOTR joke

@wytamma.bsky.social 's WASM tools have transformed my experience of teaching Python to first year undergraduate biologists this year. Since last year, I've been teaching ~400 undergrads how to code (functions, lists, dictionaries, loops) over (one hour intro lecture +) two 2-hour practicals. 1/n

#nhmrc Investigator grant anticipated outcomes Feb 202… Also 2pm Friday 27th Feb….waiting….

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Episode 1 - Jack Gilbert: "We are living in a microbial world"

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New paper out. Great collab with Hannah, Courtney & team bringing multi-omics into supportive care. Faecal and saliva samples show promise for predicting chemo-brain, a common side effect that deserves way more attention. #MultiOmics #SupportiveCare #Oncology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Pre-treatment Gut Microbiome and Salivary Metabolome Signatures Associate with Chemotherapy-Induced Cognitive Decline in Women with Breast Cancer: A Prospective Pilot Study

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🚀 Just launched: GraphBin Visualise (WASM) a browser-based visualisation tool for comparing initial metagenomic binning results vs refined results from GraphBin - all running in your browser, no backend required. (1/n) #bioinformatics #metagenomics #binning #webapp #pyiodide #webassembly

GitHub - metagentools/graphbin-visualise-wasm-app: GraphBin Visualise WebAssembly App

GraphBin Visualise WebAssembly App. Contribute to metagentools/graphbin-visualise-wasm-app development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Glad you enjoyed it 😁

@mattsnelson.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Grateful to have made it to my first #ABACBS2025 conference last week — though left each day feeling like my brain had exploded 🤯 Huge shoutout to @tuomasborman.bsky.social, @feargalr.bsky.social, Geraldine Kong, Vini Salazar and Don Teng for workshops that were insanely useful. @abacbs.bsky.social

That’s a wrap! Huge thank you to everyone who joined us for #ABACBS2025 & a big shout-out to the Adelaide bioinfo community who worked their butts off. Couldn’t have asked for a better crew or a better venue than Adelaide Oval. @wessidepraxis.bsky.social @linsalrob.bsky.social

What an amazing crew!!! #ABACBS2025

Jimmy Breen@wessidepraxis.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Thanks to the amazing Adelaide Bioinformatics community for making #ABACBS2025 an amazing event. We couldn’t have done it without you. A few more days of workshops to go before the festival finishes for another year 😀

SPECTACULAR first day for #ABACBS2025

Heading to Radelaide for #ABACBS2025 . Looking forward to catch up with old friends and nerd out on bioinformatics! Checkout PhD student Peiwen Liu's poster on connectomeDB2025 (Quality matters!) connectomeDB.org

– ConnectomeDB2025

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The view in this room is amazing! #ABACBS2025

Neglecting the bluesky account lately but that’s going to change with #ABACBS2025 tomorrow! Exciting to see old friends and make new ones! Are you going to be there? Let me know!

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

Swag! #ABACBS2025

Walkthrough of the conference centre ahead of #ABACBS2025 later this month. Bit overcast in Adelaide today but hoping for clear skies at the conference ☀️🕶️

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-

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🚀 TaxSEA v1.2 is now live in #Bioconductor release 3.22! TaxSEA brings enrichment testing to #metagenomics data. Just like GSEA does for transcriptomics making #microbiome & #microbiota results biologically interpretable, fast, and reproducible. We've added new DBs & features in 1.2 👇 🧵

We've rescued two former racers. Not ideal when your vet is on the news www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Vet sent greyhounds home with 'open wounds', SA parliament told

Staff at Greyhound Racing SA accuse the organisation of suppressing complaints about its preferred vet, according to documents and graphic photos tabled in state parliament.

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Very excited to share the latest work from our lab, which was published today in Nature! nature.com/articles/s41... PhD graduate and now post-doc Sofia Dahlman, along with co-senior author Sam Forster from The Hudson and other researchers from our lab and others.

Isolation, engineering and ecology of temperate phages from the human gut - Nature

Human host-associated cellular products may act as induction agents for bacteriophages.

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Awesome but brief trip to Dublin for #ICSB2025

Carefully reading the papers you cite is like a superpower. You might be surprised what you actually find! 😜

Fascinating! Genetic risk factors for disease susceptibility show little association with disease progression/mortality. Important as most individuals only approach the health care system after developing symptoms. #genomics www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Limited overlap between genetic effects on disease susceptibility and disease survival - Nature Genetics

Systematic comparison of genome-wide association results for disease risk and disease-specific mortality for nine common diseases across seven biobanks finds limited overlap between genetic effects on disease susceptibility and survival.

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#MVIF Season 5!

Microbiome Virtual International Forum@microbiomevif.bsky.social · 11mo ago

#MVIF Season 5 has started! Check out the program and feel free to join the keynotes by presenting your work–abstract submission is open: www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US/-/info...