Grandchamp, @drdomain.bsky.social et al. publish a new Review on commonly used methods for de novo gene detection, address the limitations of nomenclature and detection methods, and establish a de novo gene annotation format to standardize reporting 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf197 #genome #evolution

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Sign up today to receive the monthly newsletter from the ERGA European Reference Genome Atlas to learn about #biodiversy #genomics initiatives in #Europe, courses, jobs, conferences, & more www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYL9...

🧩 Thrilled to share our new paper in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social ! We present a comprehensive review of de novo gene emergence — providing a classification of current detection methods and a roadmap for addressing major challenges in the field of gene birth from non-genic sequences.

🚀We’re excited to share our new paper in Bioinformatics! We introduce a user-friendly toolkit that implements our novel DeNoFo file-format for standardised annotation of de novo gene detection workflows — enabling reproducible methodology descriptions and easier dataset comparison across studies.

PhD position available in evolutionary genomics/bioinformatics (hoehnalab.github.io/job_adverts/...). Topic: analyzing gene expression evolution across several firefly species and linking expression changes to genomic architecture. The position is jointly supervised with @anaevolcatalan.bsky.social

The DeNoFo format & toolkit for annotating, assessing and comparing the tools and tresholds used in studies of de novo evolved genes is out now in Bioinformatics! Great effort led by @drdomain.bsky.social and Anna Grandchamp! academic.oup.com/bioinformati...

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)

I’ll be advertising a post-doc position (up to 3 year) soon. It will be for somebody that is a good programmer, interested in evolution & is keen to learn new machine learning & AI approaches. I don’t have a link to a job advertisement yet. The post will be hybrid working and based at U of Liverpool

Going into my last week @uni-muenster.de and was really happy to have a final meeting with so many awesome people from @gevol.bsky.social . Good luck to all of you for your second phase projects, a great time and hopefully I'm crossing paths with some of you in the future! ☺️

Only 10 days left to apply: We are searching for a senior postdoc (3 +3 years) in the field of theoretical ecology and evolution. The position provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects. Please RT. Details 👇: shorturl.at/iiiOv

Robert Waterhouse at #ESEB2025 - PIs/Profs please give your students a break when they're doing orthology, ancestral state reconstruction, gene/species tree reconciliation work - it's not an overnight process, there are no push-button tools, and fast doesn't equal correct! Love this :-)

Me and my group are searching for a senior postdoc (3 +3 years) in the field of theoretical/ computational biology. The position provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects. Please RT. Deadline: 11/09/2025 Details 👇: shorturl.at/iiiOv

If you want to discuss #networks in #evo-devo, you should join this year's satellite symposium of the @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social organized by the developmental biology section (@marketa-kau.bsky.social, Benjamin Naumann, Alexander Klimovich). I will talk about gene regulatory networks.

I am excited to announce that the position of a senior postdoc (3 +3 years) in the field of theoretical biology is available in my group. The position provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects. Please RT. Details 👇: shorturl.at/iiiOv

OrthoFinder just dropped a major update It’s faster, more accurate, and ready for thousands of genomes Let’s break it down (1/10) github.com/OrthoFinder/... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

BUSCO v6.0.0 has been released. busco.ezlab.org

🚨 Abstract deadline approaching! 🧬 Are you passionate about decoding life through genomics and cutting-edge science? 📅 Don’t delay—register today and submit your abstract! 🚨LINK to apply 👉 bit.ly/4n9AuqN

🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 🔬 Ever wondered how new genes emerge from scratch? Meet DESwoMAN, a fully automated pipeline to detect and analyze newly expressed ORFs (neORFs) from transcriptome data — giving us a window into the earliest stages of de novo gene emergence! (Thread 🧵👇)

📖 SMBE journals on Bluesky Interested in learning the latest advances in evolutionary biology, genomics, and molecular biology? Follow the SMBE sister journals MBE and GBE here on Bluesky and get updates on new articles coming out. MBE: @molbioevol.bsky.social GBE: @genomebiolevol.bsky.social

Recently I developed several Snakemake workflows for tasks related to Cactus and HAL files, including whole genome alignment and pangenome inference. The goal was to perform these tasks efficiently on SLURM-based (or possibly other) clusters. I hope they are useful! github.com/harvardinfor...

YUP. Made an error in the very first post. Correct link is: github.com/mol-evol/gcua

The WorkflowHub registry has a global reach, with hundreds of research organisations involved, and more than 800 workflows registered. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #bioinformatics #FAIR

Welcoming @lassemiddendorf.bsky.social as Mayor of iGEM’s Biomanufacturing Village. This Village explores how we can grow the medicines, materials and commodities of the future using synthetic biology- powered by shared tools, scalable ideas and practical roadmaps. villages.igem.org

RAxML-NG v2.0 beta is here github.com/amkozlov/rax... Features 1. Difficulty prediction academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... 2. Adaptive search academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... 3. Early Stop www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 4. Model selection 5. Rapid bootstrapping academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

We are pleased to announce that the next speaker in the ProSE seminar series will be Dr. Klara Hlouchova with a talk on "Protein Structure Before LUCA" May 13, 4PM CET Registration link: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar4 Please share!

⏩ Is your institute part of the @elixir-europe.org Network? ⏩ Do you work with #biodiversity #data? The ELIXIR #Biodiversity Community 🟢 Recommendations: f1000research.com/articles/10-... 🟦 Goals: elixir-europe.org/communities/... 🟢 Community: f1000research.com/articles/12-...

🎓 #PhD in Evolutionary Ecology @UniBayreuth 🇩🇪 Parental care vs microbe communities in burying beetles 🪲🧫 ERC-funded | 3 years | behavioral ecology & metabarcoding Details: tinyurl.com/CareVsMicrobes Apply by May 16, start in September #AcademicSky #Microbiome #SocialEvolution #Insects

Do you use Darwin Tree of Life (DToL) genomes for your work or grant applications? If so, can you please fill out this form? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... We are gathering info on how DToL genomes are used. It will help us raise money to continue producing publicly available high-quality genomes.

A trove of new termite genomes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #biodiversity #genomics

How #genome-wide sequence divergence maps to species status www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #biodiversity #genomics

De novo genes research community 🧬 - please consider using for your future or past work our new methodology annotation format for better comparability of studies and higher reproducibility. (1/3)

Dear Blueskye-verse, I have a question: We are about to buy a new 96-well microplate-reader that we want to use for measuring OD and fluorescence in long-term-cultivation experiments inside the platereader (to e.g. measure growth rate). Which instruments/ brand can you recommend?

🧪📣Course alert!📣🧪 Applications are open for the new edition of the @EMBO.org course on Genome assembly and downstream analysis in Florence 🇮🇹. We can’t wait to welcome a new group of participants after the success of🇧🇪 & 🇪🇸 editions. 🗓️ Apply by May 31. 🧪🧬🖥️ #EMBOgenomeSeq #ScienceTraining

Check out the recent "Genetics" paper by our Gevol members Pete Czuppon and Daniel Omole: "Maintenance of long-term transposable element activity through regulation by nonautonomous elements" doi.org/10.1093/gene...

Join us this August in Barcelona for the @eseb2025.bsky.social. In "The Future Meets The Beginning: Synthetic Biology, Evolution & Origin of Life," we will explore the connections between these topics. Submit your abstract before the 25th of April! #evolution #science #synthetic_biology

Marie, Sarah, Bharat and Lars (@lacholt.bsky.social) presented their research last week at the Münster Evolution Meeting 2025!

We are looking forward to your abstracts for our Syposium #29 Genomic Basis of Evolutionary Innovations @eseb2025.bsky.social in 🌞Barcelona this August ➡️ eseb2025.com/list-of-symp...

Excellent first day (and finish) at MEM25 :) with @drdomain.bsky.social and @joskramer.bsky.social & @kathrinaotte

The AI tools in the study could one day be used to design enzymes capable of entirely new chemical reactions that do not exist in nature, says @noeliaferruz.bsky.social in @nature.com. “The limitations are just basically your imagination; you can design anything.”

I am trying to find everyone working on plant genomics: go.bsky.app/NqARJ7V Please let me know who is already on @bsky.app, but missing in this #PlantGenomics starter pack

Deadline for abstract submission is this Friday! Hope to see many of you (n=40) this June in Tübingen!

Post-doc opportunities! Wet/dry/hybrid projects available in my group. Drop me an email with CV if interested. www.scilifelab.se/research/pul...

Resulting from an @snsf-ch.bsky.social SPARK grant this took some time to mature, but the outcome is very imformative and builds a foundation for where to head next - how to liberate facts/information locked in the published literature www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #textmining #biodiversity