I'm happy to announce the latest release of the GlobDB, available at globdb.org. The GlobDB is a database of "species dereplicated" microbial genomes, and as of release 226 contains twice the number of species-representative genomes (306,260) than the latest GTDB release.

We have a new 3-year postdoc position in our group at the @hifmb.de to study plasmids and plasmids systems of the marine environment to survey their utility in microbial responses to environmental change. Please see the official job ad here, and spread the word: jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/20...

New #MicrobiomeDigest: microbiomedigest.com/2025/04/30/a... •Herrgårds cheese @jrotwitguez.bsky.social‬ •Asian Skin Microbiome Program @cherrychengchenli.bsky.social ‬ •long-read assemblers @floriantrigodet.bsky.social •argNorm @vedanthramji.bsky.social CU next week at @microbiomevif.bsky.social!

Genomes from long-read metagenomic assemblies contain rampant errors, highlighting the pressing need for stricter evaluation methods in long-read assembly algorithms. Read more in our paper with the Eren group. @floriantrigodet.bsky.social @merenbey.bsky.social

I am very happy (and anxious) to share with you our most recent work in which we evaluated four of the most popular long-read assemblers, www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... and tell you just a little bit about it in the following 🧵

Unique investigation of some errors in long read assemblers. In particular these remarkably chimeric contigs are 😱, if rare.... Improving long read assemblers is definitely the space to be in when it comes to the future of metagenomics, as short reads won't be part of it 😉

A blog post on the #anvio workshop that took place last week at the @hifmb.de in Oldenburg with photographs and participant survey results 😇 anvio.org/blog/oldenbu...

A reminder for ECRs who are looking for an opportunity to form their own group to study contemporary questions in marine sciences in Germany with 5-years of support: hifmb.de/focus-group-...