Happy to announce VIRE, a planetary-scale database of >1.7M viral genomes reconstructed from 100k+ metagenomes across diverse environments! In collaboration with @fullam.bsky.social, @tsbschm.bsky.social, and @borklab.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/nar/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nar/gkaf1225/8356007

Nature research paper: Long-read metagenomics reveals phage dynamics in the human gut microbiome go.nature.com/44zgo1o

Preprint out for myloasm, our new nanopore / HiFi metagenome assembler! Nanopore's getting accurate, but 1. Can this lead to better metagenome assemblies? 2. How, algorithmically, to leverage them? with co-author Max Marin @mgmarin.bsky.social, supervised by Heng Li @lh3lh3.bsky.social 1 / N

We are happy to announce that our latest manuscript has been published in Nature Communications! We identified the highly abundant and prevalent (>70% in population) giant (Max. 395kb) extrachromosomal element in the human mouth, named "Inocle". www.nature.com/articles/s41...