🚨Abstract submission & registration for #MicroSeq2025 is OPEN! 🚨Get in quick! The first 50 registrations are FREE for PhD students and ECRs who are current ASM members, thanks to @aussocmic.bsky.social. Head to our website to register now 👇 www.microseqconference.com/registration...

Google Slides has a new "Stock images" option when you "Insert Image" - you get these two options for the search term #bioinfortmics ...

🚀 Pushed some updates to taxonomy.onecodex.com - Example queries to help you get started - Summary section for easier interpretation - Perf. improvements

You might be wondering why we haven't updated outbreak.info for months. Well, the reason is that GISAID cut our access in January - as they did others. Without telling us. After a ♾️ back and forth, that is now permanent. More on that soon - and why GISAID should not be trusted with critical data.

On more than one occasion I've thought of a cool idea for a bioinformatics program only to realize @torstenseemann.bsky.social already wrote it a decade ago.

The 1973 edition of Google Maps. #nostalgia #Melbourne

🚀🧬 MY former colleague @micamer.bsky.social who I worked with in the early years of my career has released a BLAST service (GUI + API options) which replicates the NCBI services but with faster response times.

The 10-millionth job run on Galaxy Australia turned out to be my Abricate tool, which itself has been run nearly 500K times. 🤯 If only I had a dollar for every run! 😜

While browsing for a new place to rent I came across this bathroom tile design. Makes me want a pixel-art shower one day. Or a valid QR code?

🦘✂️ Thanks to @cziscience.bsky.social , @wytamma.bsky.social and I are writing the next version of the Snippy bacterial variant calling pipeline. We want your input on what features s it will have. Please fill out this (longish) survey to help make Snippy great again! forms.gle/YJP6WQjsk8KK...

Big thanks to @torstenseemann.bsky.social for hosting me at the Centre for Pathogen Genomics. It was lovely to meet everyone and see the awesome binfo work happening in Asia-Pacific! #Austrakka #Bioinformatics #PublicHealth

Want to help build capacity public health pathogen bioinformatics in the Asia Pacific region? 🦘 Based in Melbourne Australia with me ✈️ Travel to and work internationally 🧠 Lead strategy, training & infrastructure Applications close soon! jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/9...

Don't know who to follow for the best in microbial bioinformatics? This is the Starter Pack you need! bsky.app/starter-pack...

Really hoping there isn't a Y2.25K bug we missed.

When blue screens were what made kids dream.

Love this poster on the Mandelbrot Set

🌟 Excited to share my latest preprint with @lachlanjmc.bsky.social on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social: "Genome size estimation from long read overlaps”! 🚀 Check it out here: doi.org/10.1101/2024... And find the code here: github.com/mbhall88/lrge 🧵👇

I just made a first release of TNA - new tool to compare 2 bacterial genomes. Is shamelessly inspired by ACT, but should be simpler to use. Drag-n-drop two genomes: it runs BLAST for you and then you can visualize. For Mac, Windows 11, Linux tna.readthedocs.io

I nominate this for #bioinformatiocs tool name of the year. I love it when Aussie home grown software have some "Australiana" in them! 🇦🇺 github.com/AroneyS/binc...

Today I discovered that there is a street near my house named "Nullarbor Pl". I could take my laptop down there and run "nullabor.pl" at Nullarbor Pl. #coincidence