🥁 NEW: Commentary in @cellcellpress.bsky.social! by @msabrysarhan.bsky.social Giacomo Antonello @whansi.bsky.social @cengoni.bsky.social @dmascalzoni.bsky.social @leviwaldron1.bsky.social Nicola Segata, Christian Fuchsberger www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 1/4

Excited to share our MicrobiomeBenchmarkData preprint, addressing compositional data analysis for microbiome DA. This Bioconductor package features 3 datasets with biological ground truths. Spoiler: simple methods like LEfSe, Wilcoxon, RNA-seq methods performed well www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Today we asked our #outreachy applicants: What's the best/most fun and least fun part while BugSigDB-ing? Their answers are beautiful!

Very kind blog post from my Outreachy mentee Peace Sandy about the journey to closing her first issue on an open-source software project! peacesandy.hashnode.dev/my-outreachy...

Reported a duplicated figure to PubPeer - discovered via bugsigdb.org which re-codes published signatures in an analyzable format. Identical signatures are easy to spot as outliers as typical overlap between independently discovered signatures is nowhere near 100% pubpeer.com/publications...

So impressed by outreachy.org 's reach and competitive applicant screening that connected me with a remarkably talented and hard-working intern from Nigeria for a highly productive 3-month paid internship. Recommend to any open-source/open-science projects blog.bioconductor.org/posts/2024-0...

Microbiome Virtual International Forum is a free, monthly 3-hour mini-conference with a keynote talk, short talks, and 1-minute highlights, repeated for accessibility in all time zones. Mar. 20-22 features Curtis Huttenhower; see www.microbiome-vif.org to register and for timing in your time zone

Read a very first blog by Esther Afuape, a #BugSigDB intern: kunmiwrites.wordpress.com Much more to come from Esther and her #BugSigDB curations! #proudmentor cc @leviwaldron1.bsky.social

Chioma Onyido, an Outreachy intern, wrote about core values, how she applied for internship & why did she choose the Microbiome Study Curation project. Stay tuned for more Chioma’s stories, tips & tricks on #BugSigDB-ing! cc @leviwaldron1.bsky.social chiomaonyido.wordpress.com/2023/12/18/m...

Peace Sandy just started her Outreachy journey (together with Chioma Onyido and Afuape Esther) of contribution and growth while curating microbiome studies Read Peace's point of view on #BugSigDB-ing! cc @leviwaldron1.bsky.social peacesandy.hashnode.dev/kicking-off-...

Two positions available at CUNY SPH working with myself & Nicola Segata to understand roles of the microbiome in Parkinson's Disease, in collab with the Michael J Fox Foundation ASAP network. $75-85K/yr, conference travel, 1 mo/yr in the Segata lab in Italy. In-person or remote work possible.

In NEW Nature Reviews Microbiology article, @fasnicar.bsky.social Andrew Maltez Thomas, Andrea Passerini @leviwaldron1.bsky.social and Nicola Segata cover the aspects that they consider most important to enable microbiologists to use machine learning. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/2