Need to identify viruses in ancient sequenced samples? You may want to try FALCON2 💻🦠🧬👨‍🔬👩‍🔬

doi.org/10.1093/bioi...

github.com/cobilab/FALC...

#bioinformatics #aDNA #viruses #metagenomics

EMOBON microbiomes: 16S & 18S insights across European seas Next Wednesday, the 8th of April, CCMAR Seminar will feature Dr. Andrzej Tkacz who has analysed 420 sediment and water samples from the Mediterranean, Baltic, Arctic, Red, Adriatic and Atlantic (incl....

🌊 Dive into marine microbiomes with Andrzej Tkacz (CCMAR)!

Discover patterns across European seas based on 420 samples 🌍 incl. Ria Formosa

💡 Includes an interactive data tool
📅 April 8 | Hybrid | Free (registration required)
🔗 tinyurl.com/54avxwxv

#MarineScience #Metagenomics #OpenScience

Discover insights from the human gut: Novogene's webinar explores how shotgun & ITS sequencing, metabolomics & single-cell RNA-seq unveil species, metabolites & immune signatures tied to cancer progression. #Microbiome #Metagenomics #CancerResearch https://tinyurl.com/3u9pa453

A new study in press at 𝗡𝗣𝗝 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗺𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀, led by APC Microbiome Ireland, uncovers thousands of previously unknown bacteriophages in food systems from >3,000 metagenomes.

#Microbiome #Phages #Metagenomics #FoodScience
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Genome-centric metagenomics reveals electroactive syntrophs in a conductive particle-dependent consortium from coastal sediments - Nature Communications In this study, the authors provide a genomic blueprint for a conductive particle-dependent environmental consortium from coastal sediments and use long-read metagenomics to show how syntrophic partner...

Genome-centric metagenomics reveals electroactive syntrophs in a conductive particle-dependent consortium from coastal sediments
#microbiology #methane #methanogens #metagenomics #MicroSky
@natcomms.nature.com
doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Capture Everything. Microbiome.

Get accurate multiomic insights from stool with DNA & RNA sample collection and preservation technologies designed to maintain microbial integrity from collection to analysis.

Learn more: https://ow.ly/rxzk50YyNGb

#Microbiome #Metagenomics #RNAseq #Multiomics

Abstract submission for #SPAAM8 is now officially OPEN! 🚀

Don't miss the opportunity to share your work and join us in Stockholm on June 22nd 🇸🇪
Online presentations are also possible! 👩🏻‍💻

Submit your abstract: forms.gle/psw9GS3ZyrLV...

Deadline: May 1st
#aDNA #Metagenomics #seDNA

151 - Deacon part 1 In this Software Deep Dive episode, we talk with Dr. Bede Constantinides (University of Birmingham) about Deacon, a tool for removing host DNA reads from metagenomic datasets. We discuss why host read

Host read removal sounds simple. It's not. 🧫

Ep. 151 of #microbinfie: we talk with @bede.im about Deacon — why alignment-based approaches fall short, the sensitivity/specificity tradeoff, and what it takes to remove host reads at scale. Part 1 of 2.

#metagenomics
on.soundcloud.com/gEm7QyaTauvd...

Metagenomic approaches identify diverse tick-borne viruses in Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia.
doi.org/10.15212/ZOO...
#TickBorneViruses #Metagenomics #Virology #PathogenDetection

Microbial Ecological Signatures Predict Pathogen Emergence and Multidrug Resistance in Cystic Fibrosis Airways up to a Year in Advance Chronic infections in cystic fibrosis (CF) emerge from gradual ecological transitions in the airway microbiome, yet early predictive markers remain poorly defined. We developed a new autoencoder-based...

Check out our preprint on airway microbiome CF

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Q: Can we predict clinical outcomes before the clinic?
A: Yes!

🦠 Microbiome predicts Pseudomonas colonisation & AMR early
🦠 Resistance mechanisms mirror those seen in lab!

#Microbiome #CysticFibrosis #Metagenomics

🧠 Big idea: a feedback loop 🔁
More recovered genomes → better databases → better future recovery → more discovery

This could reshape metagenomics workflows:
from “assemble → bin → classify”
to “assemble → explore graph → extract genomes”

#eDNA #metagenomics #Biodiversity #Genomics
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🚀 The result?

✔️ Full genomes recovered from water samples without culturing
✔️ Species-level identification
✔️ Hidden diversity uncovered

…including a potentially new diatom lineage

#eDNA #metagenomics #SpeciesDiscovery
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NEW PAPER ALERT FROM OUR GROUP! What if you can discover previously hidden microeukaryotic diversity at high taxonomic resolution? OUR LATEST WORK DIVES DEEP INTO eDNA OF EUKARYOTES https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1755-0998.70128

🚀 New paper alert
🙏 Massive shout-out to everyone involved! New collabs and old ones growing stronger.

🔥 Proud moment for the team
PhD paper by Manon Geerts showcases the innovation of our eDNA research, especially in metagenomics of eukaryotes

#eDNA #metagenomics #MolecularEcologyResources
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#metagenomics reveals the functional profiles of #soil microorganisms and nutrient cycling under long-term #grass vegetation cropping

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #OpenAccess #microbiota #MicroSky

Today at #MBTL2026 during Session 13: Computational, Integrative and AI Tools for Meta-Omics

🦠 Riccardo Vanini will talk about the gut microbial proteases in inflammatory bowel disease

🤝 Nicola Segata will give a keynote on human-to-human microbiome transmission

#metagenomics #MicrobiomeToLife

Very excited for this MASSIVE #metagenomics project and can't wait to see everything that will be discovered! #longreads

Bioinformatics seminar this Friday 🧬

Join Sarah Shah (@sagenomicscentre.bsky.social) as she turns 💩 into data… and somehow makes it impressive

🗓 Friday, March 20th
⏰ 1.00pm – 2.00ish

DM for zoom / location details

#Bioinformatics #Metagenomics #Genome #Poo

Metagenomic insights into tick-borne viral diversity in Inner Mongolia reveal potential novel public health threats.
doi.org/10.15212/ZOO...
#Metagenomics #TickBorneViruses #InnerMongolia #Surveillance

💬 "Our aim is to help researchers make the most of real-time #nanopore #sequencing by providing an accessible, flexible, and open-source framework for metagenomic analysis."

Discover how software tool MARTi powers real-time classification and visualisation of #metagenomics. 💻 🧬

👉 buff.ly/iurkZDC

Water mass specific genes dominate the Southern Ocean microbiome - Nature Communications Southern Ocean microbial communities are less well studied. Here, the authors generate a circumpolar-scale gene catalog from 218 metagenomics samples revealing broadscale uniqueness and water-mass–spe...

A new study showcasing how the Southern ocean is filled with novel genetic content that is partially shared with the Arctic but largely endemic.

Thd study also provides the Antarctic circumnavigation metagenomic dataset!

#polar #marinemicrobes #metagenomics

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A Tale of Two Lenses: #Emergency department indoor - #air hybrid-capture #metagenomics complements #wastewater by adding a human-focused respiratory #virus perspective

A Tale of Two Lenses: #Emergency department indoor - #air hybrid-capture #metagenomics complements #wastewater by adding a human-focused respiratory #virus perspective, etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/03/a-ta...

<RSG Korea 2026 1st Webinar>

Human Reference Microbiome for the Era of Microbiome Medicine
Prof. Insuk Lee (Yonsei University)

March 24th, 2026, 17:00-18:00 (KST)

Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The Zoom link will be emailed before the webinar.

#Microbiome #Metagenomics

A new metagenomic study reveals 99 viral families interacting with pathogens across full-scale treatment systems. Some viruses help degrade pollutants, but they may also spread antibiotic resistance.
#Wastewater #Microbiome #EnvironmentalScience #Metagenomics
www.maxapress.com/article/doi/...

Our new preprint on quantifying microbial sample diversity/complexity in a way that accounts for both metagenome architecture and taxonomic composition is now live on bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#metagenomics #bioinformatics #dataanalysis #graphdata

Frontiers | Diversity of DNA viruses in the atmosphere of sub-Antarctic South Georgia Studying airborne viruses in remote environments like the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia offers key insights into viral ecology, diversity, and their ...

Airborne DNA virus communities over sub Antarctic South Georgia show unexpected diversity and oceanic links, with many virus sequences related to marine phages and extremophile associated viruses. 🌊🦠#Virology #Metagenomics
📄 https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2025.1726848
👤 EVBC member: Janina Rahlff

Home - The Microbiome Throughout Life - 19-21 March 2026 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE THE MICROBIOME THROUGHOUT LIFE Translating new science into clinical practice 19 – 21 March 2026 – Belgrade, Serbia Register Counting down Time left until the event date Days ...

March 21, Session 13:
🎤 Nicola Segata will give a keynote on human-to-human microbiome transmission: from research to clinical applications

If you're attending, come find us and let's connect! 👋
🔗 microbiometolife.com

#Microbiome #Metagenomics #Bioinformatics

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CRESSENT: a bioinformatics toolkit to explore and improve ssDNA virus annotation ssDNA viruses are important components of diverse ecosystems; however, it remains challenging to systematically identify and classify them. This is partly due to their broad host range and resulting genomic diversity, structure and rapid evolutionary rates. In addition, distinguishing genuine ssDNA genomes from contaminating sequences in metagenomic datasets (e.g. from commercial kits) has been an unresolved issue for years. Here, we present CRESSENT (CRESS-DNA Extended aNnotation Toolkit), a comprehensive and modular bioinformatic pipeline focused on ssDNA virus ‘genome-to-analysis’ and annotation. The pipeline integrates multiple functionalities organized into several modules: sequence dereplication, decontamination, phylogenetic analysis, motif discovery, stem-loop structure prediction and recombination detection. Each module can be used independently or in combination with others, allowing researchers to customize their analysis workflow. With this tool, researchers can comprehensively and systematically include ssDNA viruses in their viromics workflows and facilitate comparative genomic studies, which are often limited to dsDNA viruses, therefore leaving behind a crucial component of the microbiome community under study. Benchmarking analyses demonstrated that CRESSENT efficiently processes ssDNA virus datasets of varying scales, completing small family-level analyses within minutes and moderate comparative genomics studies within hours using standard computing resources. Its modular, parallelized design ensures scalability and low memory usage, making it accessible to research groups with diverse computational capacities.

🔬 New #ssDNA virus annotation toolkit CRESSENT accelerates #viromics & ecosystem virus discovery with modular, scalable analyses for decontamination, structuring & phylogeny. 🧬💻#Virology #Bioinformatics #Metagenomics
📄 https://doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.001632
👤 EVBC member: Matthew Sullivan

Recent Microbial Evolutionary Insights From Metagenomics Abstract. Microorganisms have profoundly shaped Earth's biological and geological history, from the origins of oxygenic photosynthesis to present-day globa

Recent Microbial Evolutionary Insights From Metagenomics
#microbiology #evolution #metagenomics #MicroSky
doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...

🇮🇹 The Novogene Italian Sequencing Project Awards 2026 awarding 4 Italy-based researchers with:

🧬 mRNA-seq (DGE + enrichment + NovoMagic) OR 🦠 Shotgun metagenomics with full bioinformatics

Enter here! tinyurl.com/4x78a8uw

#NGS #Genomics #RNAseq #Metagenomics #Bioinformatics #LifeSciences

SPAAM Blog Post Competition · SPAAM Community Standards, Precautions, and Advances in Ancient Metagenomics

📢 A gentle REMINDER from the #SPAAM Steering Committee! 🚨 The deadline for the #Blog Post #Competition is approaching (16 March) 📝. We are looking forward to receiving your submissions! :)
www.spaam-community.org/news/2025/11...
#ancientDNA #metagenomics #palaeogenomics #science #communication