π Humbled to hit 1,000 citations on Google Scholar. Thank you to all the people who contributed, read, cited, challenged, and built on this work. #research #milestones #science
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Posts by Vijini Mallawaarachchi
π About the Phagefall game
In Phagefall, you control a bacteriophage inside a petri dish. The objective is to infect and lyse bacteria before they overrun the environment. (2/n)
Phold's manuscript is now available @narjournal.bsky.social thanks to @susiegriggo.bsky.social @npbhavya.bsky.social @vijinim.bsky.social @linsalrob.bsky.social @martinsteinegger.bsky.social @milot.bsky.social @eunbelivable.bsky.social & others not on bsky #phagesky academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
β The code is fully open-source here: github.com/metagentools...
(stars help others discover it). All feedback welcome! (4/n)
π Built using Pyodide + igraph + matplotlib β so Python + plotting logic all inside browser.
π‘ Great for researchers working on metagenomic binning with assembly graphs β gives a quick, visual way to inspect improvements. (3/n)
π Try it live: metagentools.github.io/graphbin-vis...
𧬠Upload your binning results + assembly graph files and instantly see before/after plots β your data never leaves your computer. (2/n)
#bioinformatics #metagenomics #binning #webapp #pyiodide #webassembly
π 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
This package to decompose weighted graphs into weighted paths by @alextomescu.bsky.social is going to be very useful. Can't wait to try it out in my viral metagenomic tools. π€©π§¬π₯οΈ
#bioinformatics #graphs #graph-algorithms #flow-decomposition #integer-linear-programming
github.com/algbio/flowp...
Long read Metagenomics, #phage and #prophage in the gut by Ami Bhatt's group. Beautiful data showing changes in phages over two years
#phagesky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Thanks to the amazing Adelaide Bioinformatics community for making #ABACBS2025 an amazing event. We couldnβt have done it without you. A few more days of workshops to go before the festival finishes for another year π
Congratulations Hiruna Samarakoon (yet to be on bluesky) for winning the #abacbs2025 βTorsten Seemannβ Outstanding Bioinformatics Software Developer Award!!! πππ
You can check out the agtools preprint on bioRxiv for more details and analysis.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
It was great to present TRECA at ABACBS 2025 as a lightening talk.
Come find my poster #21.
#ABACBS2025 @abacbs.bsky.social
iplotx by Fabio Zanini supports visualising any network or tree analysis library. Canβt wait to visualise assembly graphs with iplotx! π€©π» #ABACBS2025 @abacbs.bsky.social
@rrwick.bsky.social solving all of our problems in long-read bacterial genome assembly with Autocycler. ππ§¬π¦ #ABACBS2025
Thanks for the capture! π
𧬠Come check out my poster on agtools, an open-source Python framework for analysing and manipulating assembly graphs at #ABACBS2025 Poster #106
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π» Github: github.com/Vini2/agtools
π Preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110β¦
A gymnastic start to day 2 with a keynote from Ami Bhatt #ABACBS2025
Great opportunity! #ABACBS2025
What and incredible speaker! @zaminiqbal.bsky.social I really enjoyed learning all about bacterial plasmids and their evolution. PSA they are also recruiting in Bath UK - go talk to him for the deets #ABACBS2025
Excited to be at ABACBS 2025. Learning, connecting and growing. ππ§¬π» #ABACBS2025
MMseqs2-GPU sets new standards in single query search speed, allows near instant search of big databases, scales to multiple GPUs and is fast beyond VRAM. It enables ColabFold MSA generation in seconds and sub-second Foldseek search against AFDB50. 1/n
π www.nature.com/articles/s41...
πΏ mmseqs.com
π Exciting news! Weβre launching three fully-funded postdoc positions for "New Horizons for Synthetic Phagesβ
Join us in tackling antimicrobial resistance with cutting-edge synthetic biology + AI bioinformatics. Based at Flinders Uni in vibrant Adelaide.
π Read on for details!
#Phage
A big shoutout to my amazing co-authors @rrwick.bsky.social @gbouras13.bsky.social @susiegriggo.bsky.social @npbhavya.bsky.social and @linsalrob.bsky.social. (6/n)
agtools is open-source and ready to drop into your own pipelines β feedback, issues, and contributions very welcome.
Github: github.com/Vini2/agtools
All you need to know about agtools can be found in the online documentation with lots of examples at agtools.readthedocs.io (5/n)
agtools exposes a Python package interface to load, query and analyse assembly graphs from popular genome and metagenome assemblers. Now you don't have to write custom code to load assembly graphs into your analyses. (4/n)
agtools provides a command-line interface for tasks such as assembly graph format conversion, segment filtering, segment renaming, graph concatenation and component extraction. (3/n)
Assembly graphs power assemblers and have become increasingly important in downstream applications like metagenomic binning, plasmid & viral resolution, and haplotype phasing β but tools providing programmatic access to assembly graphs are scarce. agtools gives you a CLI + Python API for this. (2/n)
Excited to share our latest preprint on agtools, an open-source Python framework for analysing and manipulating assembly graphs. (1/n)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#Bioinformatics #genomics #assembly #assemblygraphs #software