Introducing Microbiome Repo, a catalog of every public human gut metagenome (>500k samples) with metadata pulled straight from sequence archives, papers, and supplements! olmlab.github.io/microbiome_r... Published gut metagenomes? Search your name and see if it got your study! Feedback welcome

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Guardian obituary for biochemist and crystallographer Ada Yonath, née Lifshitz (1939-2026) who won a Nobel Prize for mapping the ribosome #chemsky 🧪 www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

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LoL-align is out in @natmethods.nature.com! It aligns protein structures without superposition. More sensitive than TM-align and DALI, producing better alignments 5–20× faster. Now available in Foldseek! 📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 💾 github.com/steineggerlab/foldseek 🌐 search.foldseek.com

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A hidden archaeal lineage with an ultra-reduced genome retaining only its replicative core www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #jcampubs

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How the discovery of microbial opsins led to the development of optogenetics www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Here is a nice article on the origin of optogenetics in microbial rhodopsins, and first of all were the haloarchaea:

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