Congrats to @leoackermann.bsky.social on winning RECOMB's best poster award for his work on compressing pairwise distance matrices! Check it out here: lacker.gitlab.io/pdf/research...

Fast Set Operations for Compact k-mer Sets https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.24.727514v1

Kamila Szewczyk, Sven Rahmann: Hecate: A Modular Genomic Compressor https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.15390 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.15390 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.15390

Deacon can now run in the browser using WebAssembly. Sequence data never leaves your machine. It currently supports FASTA/Q filtering using indexes up to 1GB in size. Demo: bede.im/deacon

At the start of January, Johanna, @rorak.bsky.social and Sven traveled to Vancouver where Johanna presented our paper "Smaller and More Flexible Cuckoo Filters"(epubs.siam.org/doi/abs/10.1...) at the ALENEX 2026. (1/4)

🧬🖥️ Call for Abstracts OPEN! Join us in celebrating 40 years of the German Conference on #Bioinformatics (#GCB2026) 🎉 📍 Saarbrücken | 🗓 22–25 Sep 2026 Submit your research & shape the future of Bioinformatics! Deadlines Workshops: 31 Mar 26 Talks: 3 May 26 Poster: 6 Aug 26 👉 GCB2026.DE

We are excited that our paper "Cleanifier: Contamination removal from microbial sequences using spaced seeds of a human pangenome index" is now published at Bioinformatics (doi.org/10.1093/bioi...). You can find it at gitlab (gitlab.com/rahmannlab/c...) or install it via PyPI or Bioconda.

#RECOMB2026 will be in Thessaloniki, Greece on May 26-29, 2026. Satellites on May 24-25. Save the date! Το συνέδριο #RECOMB2026 θα πραγματοποιηθεί στη Θεσσαλονίκη, στις 26-29 Μαΐου 2026. Οι δορυφορικές εκδηλώσεις θα διεξαχθούν στις 24-25 Μαΐου 2026. Σημειώστε την ημερομηνία!

Next year in march, the 2nd #Snakemake hackathon, this time at the #TUMunich in Germany, will take place. If you are interested in participating, follow the link on snakemake.github.io and check out the details!

Cleanifier: A fast and lightweight k-mer based tool to remove contamination in microbial sequence data https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.24.661305v1

Excited to share that our preprint, Datavzrd: Rapid programming- and maintenance-free interactive visualization and communication of tabular data, is now up on bioRxiv! 🎉 #datavzrd

Datavzrd: Rapid programming- and maintenance-free interactive visualization and communication of tabular data https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.03.647146v1