Tatta Bio

tattabio.bsky.social

20 October 2026 22:53

Through the SeqHub API, you can now search 130,000+ microbial genomes for the combination of features you care about. Combine proteins, Pfam domains, and Rfam families, and get back the contigs where they occur together. Get started by creating a token from your SeqHub Dashboard. docs.seqhub.org

Ioanna Chatzigiannidou

ioannachatzig.bsky.social

19 October 2026 16:57

I see your point but all this information is available as supplementary tables in our manuscript, and as the ENA submission system for genomes is really not optimised for submitting this amount of MAGs (time-consuming and requires a lot of manual curation), it will not be a priority at the moment.

fseersholm.bsky.social

17 October 2026 19:03

Do you like riddles(and molecular biology)? Maybe you can help me solve this one. We’ve found a short piece of DNA (a plasmid) present in almost all plague samples from the Second Plague Pandemic (1338-1840), but absent in all earlier or later plague cases. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Richard Sever

richardsever.bsky.social

17 October 2026 15:16

"Because manuscripts reflected real progress towards our field’s goals, our assessment systems began relying on them as primary metrics...which is obviously flawed...Generative AI has broken this already-flawed proxy completely" journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

bioRxiv Microbiology

biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social

13 October 2026 00:58

Maintenance of restriction-modification system diversity creates pan-immunity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.09.757998v1