Really exciting that the preprint on Barbell, a new demultiplexer, is finally out! It's the first tool that builds on Sassy, the approximate-DNA-searching tool that @rickbitloo.bsky.social and myself developed earlier this year, specifically with this application in mind.

Into natural product biosynthesis & tailoring enzymes? Frustrated by the lack of a dedicated resource to explore their functions? Tired of endless literature searches for reaction info? Meet the MITE database, freely available at mite.bioinformatics.nl. Preprint: doi.org/10.26434/che... (1/8)

Harnessing the phyllosphere microbiota of wild foxtail millet for designing beneficial cross-kingdom synthetic communities #ISMEComms by Xiaoyu Zai et al with @cmelkonian.bsky.social @vivianecordovez.bsky.social @marnixmedema.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

🚨 Open position We are hiring a PhD student to investigate the ecology and genomics of phyllosphere yeasts combining lab experiments with computational approaches. Joins us at @niooknaw.bsky.social in collaboration with @micropresearch.bsky.social @cmelkonian.bsky.social @marnixmedema.bsky.social

Exciting PhD opportunity with @vivianecordovez.bsky.social : www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/ph...

Excited to be hosting the Paired Omics Mining #community in #Wageningen this week with @marnixmedema.bsky.social! 😎 I hope you are all having safe travels here, and we just brought in some extra good care to make your stay an enjoyable one! 😃

📣 New, free webtool by the Snoek lab! Meet SpeSpeNet, an intuitive platform for automated network analysis of microbiomes to uncover complex interactions between microbes and their environments @ismepublications.bsky.social @isme-microbes.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/isme... #microsky #mevosky

It was a pleasure to speak at the Bioinformatics for Food Science Symposium—such an inspiring event! Great discussions and insights on the future of food science. Thank the organizers @cmelkonian.bsky.social and @marnixmedema.bsky.social for this amazing event!

www.linkedin.com/posts/jjjvan... #Bioinformatics #metabolomics #CompMetabolomics

www.linkedin.com/posts/jjjvan... With @mmzdouc.bsky.social

🚨 Last Call for the Bioinformatics in Food Science Symposium – Feb 24th! 🚨 We are almost at full house, approaching 110 attendees. Fortunately online participation is unlimited! Register here to receive the meeting link: lnkd.in/dfXTcrCa #Bioinformatics #FoodScience #Networking #Science

📢 Abstract Submission Extended Until January 12th. Don't miss your chance to present at the upcoming Symposium on Bioinformatics in Food Science! ☯️ We encourage abstracts from female speakers. Submit here: forms.gle/nA6b5zx9qv5K... ~80 in-person attendees registered, few spots still available!

Nora finished her paper with a sentence I like a lot "Our results show that even under extremely restrictive, competitive conditions, the simplest biological entities on Earth can still find paths to coexistence." There is a curious dichotomy in her experiments... 1/3 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A new #StarterPack with scientist specialized in microbial bioinformatics - #MicroBioInf. Please comment if you would like to be added: go.bsky.app/5h7VaGm Looking forward to the discussions!

Are you working on natural products? We’ve just released version 4.0 of the MIBiG data standard and repository! It now includes 3059 biosynthetic gene clusters, thanks to the combined efforts of 288 expert contributors. A thread: (1/8) academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

Here's a first: I'm hiring a PhD student. If you have (or know someone who has) a strong background and interest in computational (bio)chemistry or computer science (especially 3D computer vision), let's work together 😊 www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...

📢 Symposium: Bioinformatics in Food Science. Registrations are now open! Please repost to spread the word. 📅 The symposium is free of charge and will take place at February 24, 2025, at Omnia Auditorium, Wageningen Campus. 💻 Exciting speakers lined up - visit the link for details! lnkd.in/dkzfurdY

Exciting news! 🎉 My article is out in iScience presenting DNNGIOR, a deep learning tool advancing gap-filling in metabolic models. Huge thanks to co-authors @cmelkonian.bsky.social, @hariszaf.bsky.social, Daniel Garza, Andreas Haas and @bedutilh.bsky.social. Read at shorturl.at/REOm8

The RAT is out! 🐀 Our new Read Annotation Tool integrates taxonomic signals from MAGs, contigs, and reads from #metagenomics 🧬 into one microbial community profile with great sensitivity and precision. Read the article at www.nature.com/articles/s41.... 🧵 (1/5)

Taxonomic resolution of different 16S rRNA variable regions varies strongly across plant-associated bacteria #ISMEComms by Katarina Hrovat, Bas Dutilh, @marnixmedema.bsky.social and @cmelkonian.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

Standardization of metagenomics is (not) required! Join the symposium on 2 February in Utrecht: www.knvm.org/activities/6... with @cmelkonian.bsky.social @annecmg.bsky.social @aldertzomer.bsky.social and many more

My first post is a Christmas present to all the cheese lovers and microbiome enthusiast! The key message is that the cheese flavour is not the result of individual microbes alone but of the community. Fantastic teamwork and collaboration between industry and academia. 🎄🎁🧀 rdcu.be/ducw0