URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯 Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below. This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.

An opportunity to run the greatest little RNA Databases that can, Rfam & RNAcentral: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j... The only downside is you have to live near Cambridge in the UK.

Limited value of Nanopore adaptive sampling in a long-read metagenomic profiling workflow of clinical sputum samples https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.25.645176v1

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

Our new GenSpectrum.org dashboard has finally launched! Using Influenza H5N1, RSV and SARS-CoV-2 data from INSDC and West Nile virus data from @pathoplexus.org, it enables fast and interactive analyses of genome sequencing data similar to CoV-Spectrum. 1/5

Great three-part blog post by James Fellows Yates about adding software to bioconda: ubinfie.github.io/2024/08/16/a...

Variability and bias in microbiome metagenomic sequencing: an interlaboratory study comparing experimental protocols www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Snakemake workflows for long-read bacterial genome assembly and evaluation in @gigabytejournal.bsky.social: gigabytejournal.com/articles/116

New paper about a nosocomial outbreak of Pandoraea commovens: wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...