Every handful of soil & every bucket of seawater is akin to a bustling city 🦠 Thanks to our @mgnifydb.bsky.social metagenomics database, we’re learning how to map these hidden communities. Explore our catalogues of richly annotated, microbe-derived genomes. www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/t...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing health threat, making infections harder to treat and complicating routine medical care. EMBL-EBI’s new AMR portal brings together laboratory resistance data and bacterial genomes in one open platform. #WAAW2025 #ActOnAMR www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/t... 🧬💻

A new gateway to global antimicrobial resistance data

New online portal connects bacterial genomes with experimental resistance data to support antimicrobial resistance research.

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Excited to share our preprint led by Carlos Voogdt et al We developed new genetic tools & genome-wide libraries for species of the Bacteroidales order; constructed saturated barcoded transposon libraries in key representatives of three genera. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Sometimes you meet absolutely incredible bioinfo-magicians. It was a huge privilege when @shenwei356.bsky.social joined our group for a year on an @embl.org sabbatical. While here, he developed a new way of aligning to millions of bacteria, called LexicMap 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Efficient sequence alignment against millions of prokaryotic genomes with LexicMap - Nature Biotechnology

LexicMap uses a fixed set of probes to efficiently query gene sequences for fast and low-memory alignment.

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We're very happy to release our new database Metalog metalog.embl.de ! It offers manually curated and harmonised contextual data for 110k metagenomics samples across the globe, incl. precomputed taxonomic profiles, for interactive browsing and for download 🧵 1/7 #microsky

MGnify are at ISMB/ECCB 2025 this week! Catch our talks on Wednesday to learn about our latest services and tools. 👇 #ISMB2025 #ISMBECCB2025

With the addition of the soil genome catalogue, MGnify now hosts over half a million genomes - exciting milestone for the resource.

@mgnifydb.bsky.social · last yr.

The genome catalogue for the soil microbiome is now live on MGnify! Built from MAGs & isolate genomes across 21 studies (including the recently published SMAG and Microflora Danica catalogues), it features 19,472 species.

The GIBA network will be launching on September 22nd with an in-person event in Southampton. Do come along to hear and share your thoughts on our plans to drive innovation in the gut-immune-brain axis field in the UK. Sign-up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/uk-giba-ne...

UK GIBA Network+@ukgibanetwork.bsky.social · last yr.

Are you interested in the gut-immune-brain axis (GIBA)? 🧠🔬 Researchers and stakeholders from all disciplines and backgrounds are invited to join the launch event for our UK GIBA Network+. 📅 Monday 22nd September 📍 Southampton Harbour Hotel Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-giba-ne...

MGnify genome catalogues have close to 0.5 million genomes sourced from 12 biomes #WorldMicrobiomeDay

@mgnifydb.bsky.social · last yr.

Microbes can be difficult to culture in the laboratory. To tackle this we assemble their genomes directly from metagenomic data. These are called MAGs: metagenome-assembled genomes. Explore the novelty of uncultivated microbes in our biome-specific genome catalogues. www.ebi.ac.uk/metagenomics...

It’s #WorldMicrobiomeDay! This year’s theme is Microbiome 101: What You Need to Know — here we present MGnify’s guide to microbiome data! 🔬

Are you interested in learning more about the tools, processes and analysis approaches used in the field of genome-resolved #metagenomics? Then this course is for you! www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve... Limited financial assistance is available. See course page for more info. 🧪🧬🖥️

Our paper describing mettannotator, a new prokaryotic annotation pipeline, is out: academic.oup.com/bioinformati... 📝 Mettannotator generates comprehensive structural & functional annotations ⚙️ Built with #Nextflow — scalable, no installation needed