RNA virus Journal Club is on!
🌳March 17th | Tuesday, 10 AM Berkeley time / 18 PM CET 🕰️

You've probably heard about the meta-virus resource? We will get to dive into metaVR database & huge viral diversity within thanks to @mattlabguy.bsky.social 🥳

All welcome! Details ⬇️
@rdrpsummit.bsky.social

what can be better than global RNA virome and Dolja?
Nothing for me.. :)
Join RNA virus club (by @rdrpsummit.bsky.social ) already tomorrow:
Thu, Feb 12, 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US 🇺🇸, Canada🇨🇦)
(or 7pm London time 🇬🇧)

for an hour with one and only Prof. Valerian Dolja (Oregon State University)

Meta-virus resource (MetaVR): expanding the frontiers of viral diversity with 24 million uncultivated virus genomes Abstract. Viruses are ubiquitous in all environments and impact host metabolism, evolution, and ecology, although our knowledge of their biodiversity is st

🦠🧪🧬🚨 New paper and database alert: the new IMG/VR release is now MetaVR ! We have a new website - meta-virome.org - with quick search capabilities for the >24M viruses, >12M vOTUs, and >42M protein clusters (including >790k with predicted structures !). academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

detectEVE: Fast, Sensitive and Precise Detection of Endogenous Viral Elements in Genomic Data Endogenous viral elements (EVEs) are fragments of viral genomic material embedded within the host genome. Retroviruses contribute to the majority of EVEs because of their genomic integration during t...

It's today! December 11th

Finding endogenous viral elements in genomic data 🧑‍💻
by Sebastian Lequime (University of Groningen @rug.nl )

Time: 2pm EST🇺🇸 / 8pm CET 🇪🇺 / 4am JST 🇯🇵

Join @rdrpsummit.bsky.social RNA Virus Journal Club talk & discussion: oregonstate.zoom.us/j/9164101918...

#rdrpsummit

A Cell So Minimal That It Challenges Definitions of Life | Quanta Magazine The newly described microbe represents a world of parasitic, intercellular biodiversity only beginning to be revealed by genome sequencing.

A newly discovered archaeal cell has a tiny genome and can’t metabolize biomolecules. It’s upending biologists’ definition of a living thing. “These types of organisms have been found before, but not as extreme as this,” said microbiologist Thijs Ettema.

Phishing site : minimap2.com · Issue #1316 · lh3/minimap2 Not sure how to label this one, but I have come across a website minimap2.com which appears to be AI generated but is serving it's own copy of the Github repository. If you search the address or em...

minimap2.com is potentially a phishing site. Please don't use anything from that website.
github.com/lh3/minimap2...

Great to see you, too!

Thanks a lot, same from my side! 😉

#GRS and #GRC #Archaea in the Swiss Alps: great meetings and location! Many familiar and even more new faces. Going home with exciting ideas and collaboration initiatives on exploring #archaeal #viruses in #soil! Thanks to everyone 😉

You can learn more about virus research conducted with JGI support by checking out:

🦠Our Viral Genomics group (led by @simrouxvirus.bsky.social): jgi.doe.gov/who-we-are/p...

🦠Our Metagenome Science Program: jgi.doe.gov/science-prog...

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Beneath the surface: Unsolved questions in soil virus ecology Soil virus ecology is an exciting but still nascent field of research in soil microbiology. While there has been a recent surge in soil virus research…

Our perspective on soil virus ecology research is out!

Fantastic collab with
@christinahazard.bsky.social @karthik-a.bsky.social @lukehillary.bsky.social @urineri.bsky.social @simrouxvirus.bsky.social @gtrubl.bsky.social @KurtWilliams @jeffinerca.bsky.social @graemenicol.bsky.social @JoanneEmerson

Tatiana Demina introduced #esm2025 community novel Tunturi virus isolates from Finnish Arctic tundra soils.

Hello everyone! I am pleased to share information on the first ever Computational Structural Virology Symposium, conducted August 4th on zoom and highlighting work in this emerging field. You can register for this event here: forms.gle/CNiqskMwQEuV.... Please re-post!

New pre-print out \o/ All about CRISPR, metagenomes, and what you learn when you collect (a lot of) spacers from natural communities, with @apcamargo.bsky.social @urineri.bsky.social @lhug.bsky.social but also Uri Gophna, Nikhil George (not on Bsky I think) & others at JGI doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Many thanks to all who contributed to #RdRpSummit2025 & #ViBioM2025, making these meetings such great platforms for sharing #virus research insights and new #bioinformatics tools! An amazing week of networking & (a bit of) sightseeing in beautiful Lisbon ❤️ @rdrpsummit.bsky.social @evbc.bsky.social

Lunch breaks are for good food and even better (RdRp) conversations! ❣️💃🏻
#RdRpSummit2025

If you use Kraken for profiling microbial / environmental / ancient metagenomic data, please check this preprint where I benchmark filtering strategies of Kraken outputs on simulated microbial and environmental metagenomic samples, and provide recommendations for optimal filtering thresholds

EXCITING NEWS🥳! @isme-microbes.bsky.social is now sponsoring 3 travels grants worth EUR 500 each to support early career researchers presenting at the #RdRpSummit2025.
Abstract submissions & registrations are still open!✍️
More info at RdRp.io

Tunturi virus isolates and metagenome-assembled viral genomes provide insights into the virome of Acidobacteriota in Arctic tundra soils - Microbiome Background Arctic soils are climate-critical areas, where microorganisms play crucial roles in nutrient cycling processes. Acidobacteriota are phylogenetically and physiologically diverse bacteria tha...

Interested in #soil #viruses? We are! Excited to share our study on #Acidobacteriota #phages in #Arctic #tundra #soils being now published together with an easy-to-follow video abstract: microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

MIUViG Update Survey Since the development of the Minimum Information about an Uncultured Viral Genome (MIUViG) standard (Roux et al. 2019), there has been an explosion in the number of genomic data generated on unculture...

We're looking for suggestions on how to update and adapt the Minimum Information about an Uncultured Viral Genome (MIUVIG) reporting standard. What works? What needs updating? Check out the survey forms.gle/DPHvMFe8Gsdj... 🧵

Going to #ViBioM2025 ? Interested in discovery of RNA viruses? Consider joining us 2 days early (May 11-12) in Lisbon for the 2025 RdRp summit @rdrpsummit.bsky.social ! Program and abstract submission will be available soon.
We'll talk advances in methodology from isolation to bioinformatics.

🚨 🌟 Submissions & Registrations Open for #ViBioM2025! 🌟 🚨
Join us 13–15 May 2025 in Lisbon, Portugal! 🦠💻 Present your research, connect with global experts, and shape the future of #Virology & #Bioinformatics.

📅 Details & links: evbc.uni-jena.de/events/vibio...

It's been a wonderful month at @jgi.doe.gov in @simrouxvirus.bsky.social group studying the effects of #reindeer grazing on #soil #viruses, a project by @jennihultman.bsky.social. Highly recommend MVP by Clement Coclet!
Many thanks to JGI folks for warm welcoming! Take care and see you!

Many thanks to all co-authors and funding agencies! @igorspp.bsky.social @simrouxvirus.bsky.social @jennihultman.bsky.social

Tunturi virus isolates and metagenome-assembled viral genomes provide insights into the virome of Acidobacteriota in Arctic tundra soils bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

#Acidobacteriota is one of the most abundant bacterial phyla in #soil, yet extremely little is known about their #viruses. New insights into Acidobacteriota-associated #virome in #climate-critical #Arctic #tundra #soils in our preprint!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Enjoying amazing #VoM2024 in Australia, Queensland, the Sunshine State! @vom2024.bsky.social #VoM2024PhotoChallenge
P.S. Welcome to my poster 008 tomorrow! ☀️

Isolaateista löytyi odottamattomia loisia - tutkimus on yllättävä matka Koko tutkijanurani ajan olen keskittynyt viruksiin. Viruksia on runsaasti kaikissa soluja sisältävissä ympäristöissä. Virusten morfologinen ja geneettinen monimuotoisuus on valtavaa ja virusten ...

Challenged myself with writing a blog post for the Nessling Foundation in Finnish:) Briefly, we unexpectedly isolated new Bdellovibrio-related bacteria while trying to isolate viruses from tundra soils. Research is exciting! Thanks to @jennihultman.bsky.social & @johannaosvath.bsky.social for help!