Tessera
Folgen

Sam Williams

@samwill.bsky.social

NNF Postdoctoral Fellow at DTU in the Weber lab Hunting for new antibiotics by hunting for novel resistance #metabolomics #genomemining #secmet

54 Posts792 Follower831 Folgt
Sam Williams@samwill.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Check out our paper in @asm.org Applied and Environmental Microbiology 🍾 OSMAC guided bioprospecting of Atlantic sponges reveals novel bacterial species and the antimicrobial thiazole alkaloid agrochelin II | Applied and Environmental Microbiology journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... #secmet #microsky

OSMAC guided bioprospecting of Atlantic sponges reveals novel bacterial species and evidence for the antimicrobial thiazole alkaloid agrochelin II | Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Bioactive microbial natural products remain the preeminent source of new lead compounds for drug development. Due to the increasingly high levels of strain and compound rediscovery from terrestrial en...

journals.asm.org

Oliver Schwengers@oschwengers.bsky.social · last yr.

We happily present: “Bakta Web – rapid and standardized genome annotation on scalable infrastructures” @OxUniPress NAR’s Web Server issue doi.org/10.1093/nar/... Easy to use, no registration, fast, scalable, various visualizations, in sync with Bakta CLI: bakta.computational.bio (1/5)

Bakta Web – rapid and standardized genome annotation on scalable infrastructures

Abstract. The Bakta command line application is widely used and one of the most established tools for bacterial genome annotation. It balances comprehensiv

doi.org

Doug Parr@dougparr.bsky.social · last yr.

89% of world’s people want stronger action on climate but mistakenly believe they're in a minority 69% willing to contribute 1% of their income to the climate fight, & more than 50% in all but a few countries, but believed only a minority would also be willing www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Activate climate’s ‘silent majority’ to supercharge action, experts say

Making concerned people aware their views are far from alone could unlock the change so urgently needed

theguardian.com

ASM@asm.org · last yr.

📢 Call for papers! Submit your research to #mSystems' new collection on Microbial Ecology and Evolution. Contribute systems-level insights into microbial communities, evolution and ecosystems. Submit now: asm.social/2mq

New call for papers from mSystems! Submit your research on Microbial Ecology and Evolution.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last yr.

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards

Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.

washingtonpost.com

Simon Evans@drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · last yr.

The crisis for UK steel is exposing another – perhaps even bigger – crisis for the UK Our news media seems incapable of even the most basic factchecking YES energy for UK steelmakers is costly NO it's not due to net-zero YES it is due to GAS Here's what UK media isn't telling you🧵

Bild
Jake Williams@malwarejake.bsky.social · last yr.

I've answered consulting client questions dozens of times over the years to the effect of "should I force my users traveling to China to take burner devices to safeguard our IP?" It's amazing that in just a few short months, the US is on par with China for many countries' espionage concerns.

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · last yr.

Breaking news: The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China www.ft.com/content/20d0...

Old mobile phones and keyboards. Overlaid text reads: FT Exclusive: EU issues US-bound staff with burner phones to avoid espionage
Atin Sharma@atinsharma.bsky.social · last yr.

Fancy yourself as an editor at Nature Microbiology? This is your chance! Come work with us at @natmicrobiol.nature.com and @naturecomms.bsky.social

Nature Microbiology@natmicrobiol.nature.com · last yr.

📢We are #hiring a full time editor to handle areas including microbial ecology & plant microbiology🦠🌱 This position will work closely with @naturecomms.bsky.social #microsky #microbiomesky #ecologysky 🧪 Available in NYC, Madrid, or other US offices Read more & apply here: shorturl.at/yvdYJ

James Milner@jameslmilner.com · last yr.

One thing maybe not discussed enough is the long term opportunity cost of not investing and supporting open source software. Imagine the more and better Blenders, GIMPs, Firefoxs, InkScapes, QGISs etc we would of had (+ could have) if open source was taken more seriously by government and businesses

Joe Greener@jgreener64.bsky.social · last yr.

This has been a long journey, but it's now out in final form. @kjamali.bsky.social academic.oup.com/bioinformati...

Fast protein structure searching using structure graph embeddings

Abstract . Comparing and searching protein structures independent of primary sequence has proved useful for remote homology detection, function annotation,

academic.oup.com

Joe Greener@jgreener64.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Progres method for fast protein structure searching is now available as a web server (progres.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk) and has the option to split query structures into domains with Chainsaw. An alternative to Foldseek for searching the AlphaFold database in < 1 second. (1/2)

Natural Product Reports@natprodreports.rsc.org · last yr.

Be sure to read in our latest issue this review from István Molnár, Peng Xu, Bo-Bo Zhang & co. at Shantou University on harnessing microbial co-culture to increase the production of known secondary metabolites #secmet #natprod Find it here🔽

Harnessing microbial co-culture to increase the production of known secondary metabolites

Covering: 2019 to 2024 Secondary metabolites (SMs) are naturally occurring defense or signaling molecules that are also utilized as human and animal drugs, crop protection agents, and fine chemicals.…

pubs.rsc.org

Brendan Maher@bmaher.bsky.social · last yr.

OK. I don't need to explain the importance of 'blue-sky' research to people on here, but this story in @nature.com is so cool! The area of research that delivered CRISPR gene editing has exploded and is turning up all kinds of cool tools for molecular biology. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Microbial warfare brought us CRISPR. What big breakthroughs could be next?

Gene editing and many other useful biotechnology tools came from studies of bacteria fighting off viral invaders. But scientists have only begun to unlock the secrets of this ancient arms race.

nature.com