The ERC Project MATRIX explores one of the big questions in our past: how Neanderthals disappeared as modern humans spread across Europe. Meet the team behind it and learn more about our research on sediments, ancient DNA, proteins, lipids & human evolution 👉 matrix.icarehb.com

You like phages ? In this publication, we use metaHiC and our new version of the MetaTOR pipeline to challenge the traditional view of phages with a narrow host range. @rkoszul.bsky.social @natmicrobiol.nature.com @cnrs.fr @institutpasteur.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

💧🌊 What happens when freshwater bacteria meet their salty counterparts? Our new preprint explores the ecological factors driving community coalescence 👉https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.09.675091v1 @bedutilh.bsky.social @microverse.bsky.social

Happy Birthday, Goethe! 🌿 Though he never saw microbes under a microscope, his holistic view of nature still inspires us today. At the #Microverse, we explore how microbial worlds shape life’s balance – just as Goethe imagined nature as one interconnected whole. Illustration: AI-generated

The microbial composition of metagenomes is identified in seconds by profiling against large databases go.nature.com/3BBVqDC rdcu.be/eCbj4

Plus, it's heaps good timing with preprints for our phage annotation tools Phynteny and Phold coming out in the past few weeks! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Stoked to finally have a preprint out for Phold, our tool that uses protein structural information to enhance phage genome annotation #phagesky 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚨 New preprint 🚨 My phage annotation tool, Phynteny, finally has a preprint and a brand new version powered by a cool AI transformer architecture and protein language models! #phagesky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Interested in a tool that aligns millions of proteins in minutes with quality similar to or better than the state-of-the-art utilities? Please take a look at our FAMSA2 paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... and GH repo: github.com/refresh-bio/...

We (with Clement Coclet, not on Bsky) had the chance to work on a broad "state of viromics" review. We tried to use this to give an overview of how the field changed over the last ~ 15 years, and also what we think are some of the major remaining challenges. Full-text access at -> rdcu.be/excHt

New sylph pre-built databases + taxonomy available for: - GTDB-R226 (143k prok. species) - GlobDB-R226 (>300k prok. species, thanks @daanspeth.bsky.social ) - UHGV (Unified Human Gut Virome Catalog, thanks @apcamargo.bsky.social ) Must update sylph-tax; see docs (sylph-docs.github.io/sylph-tax/)

Faster && more accurate virus sequence clustering with Vclust! Thanks to Andrzej, Sebastian, et al. for the great collaboration. The author list also includes @prozwalak.bsky.social from the VEO Group.