Our work exploring host-microbial co-metabolism of bile acids in patients with alcohol-related liver disease (ALD) has been published in the JHEP Reports: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🪐 A big thank you to everyone involved, to the GALAXY and MicrobLiver consortia who made this possible! 🙌

New in @natgenet.nature.com: a moving obituary for Peer. Francesca Ciccarelli, Jan Korbel & Christian von Mering reflect on his scientific vision, from protein domains and genome evolution to metagenomics, and on his generosity as a mentor and friend to so many. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our study describing `microntology` and annotations for >300k metagenomes is now online in Bioinformatics @academic.oup.com : academic.oup.com/bioinformati... Congratulations to @fullam.bsky.social @vishnuprasoodanan.bsky.social & @biocs.bsky.social ! See the thread below for more details.

GUNC pre-processed databases are now also on zenodo thanks to @fullam.bsky.social : zenodo.org/records/1963...

Due to some IT problems, the Bork group homepage and various services such as SPIRE and Metalog are unfortunately going to be unavailable for a couple of days. We're sorry for that and hope that the outage can soon be resolved!

@fullam.bsky.social has given the SPIRE website a bit of an overhaul: improved pages, nice new options to navigate, improved search, streamlined genome, study and sample pages, tidied up Downloads page, etc. Go check it out: spire.embl.de

Our work on 'hidden diversity' in unbinned contigs is now published in @natmicrobiol.nature.com : www.nature.com/articles/s41... See the linked threads for more details!

There is a lot of undescribed prokaryotic diversity in existing whole-genome metagenomic data! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@fullam.bsky.social has pushed a new #GUNC release, v1.1.0: github.com/grp-bork/gun... It fixes some bugs, updates some underlying databases and brings new features (e.g. you can now BYODB – bring your own database). GUNC v1.1.0 is also live on #bioconda .

It has been two weeks since the unexpected death of Peer Bork, and all of us in his research group are deeply missing him. His scientific vision brought us together as a team, and we are immensely grateful for the time we spent together. 🧵

GUNC v1.0.6 has just been released! This version is a minor release with some small bugfixes and a fix for compatibility with pandas v2. Changelog here: gunc.embl.de/changelog.html The next release is already underway - with more substantial feature additions.