Stats on the latest release

New GROND database release
• Updated to GTDB 226
• Streamlined database construction workflow
• Multiple de-replicated database sizes available
• Dual GTDB + NCBI taxonomy labels for the same genome set

(github.com/cazzlewazzle...)
(zenodo.org/records/1770...)

@secondcaptains.bsky.social Declan Rice halfway through a game of SOCOM

Delighted to be able to contribute (barely) to the Data Reuse Consortium. A great idea - looking forward to the DRI tag becoming standard in microbiome research

Timely reminder to add some art to the wall of my home office

First output of our collaboration with Australian Red Cross Lifeblood - using genomics and culturing to look at the impact of processing on microbial composition and viability in FMT products

Congrats Sai!

This paper has been a long time coming: We looked at the genomes of historical bacterial samples over a century to look for trends of antibiotic resistance genes, finding multiple instances of them in infections before the age of antibiotics, but an increase in both frequency and mobility after

Great job all! Really interesting project to be a part of.

Changes to the classification

Big news from Finnish publication forum. Almost all MDPI and Frontiers journals will be downgraded to level 0 and thus are not considered as properly peer reviewed trustworthy scientific journals.
julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/chan...

New Genus who dis?

Security pro tip: if you find a USB key on the ground somewhere, DO NOT plug it in to your home computer.

Take it to the office and plug it in there. They have way better software that will mitigate any threats.

I’m looking to recruit PhD candidates to work with me at Flinders University in #Bioinformatics. Details at the link below 👇 Please share to your networks!
www.flinders.edu.au/scholarships...

Our latest paper is out now. The brilliant Chris Connor’s entire PhD in one paper. And I hope a new avenue of research opened in MDR E. coli

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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Did a big thread on Twitter, but will keep it short here.

We have a new paper out! If you're into signal transduction, staph aureus, and/or nifty molecular biology then check it out.

journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...