Here's a link to a quick article I wrote about how we're making changes to the #qiime2 documentation ecosystem, and introducing the #qiime2 Library "Stacks".

This announcement is a little late (we're just starting to use bluesky), but #QIIME 2 2024.10 was release this October! Lots of exciting new features with many more still on the way! forum.qiime2.org/t/qiime-2-20... #microbiome #bioinformatics #microbiomesky

Reposting, to share on #microbiomesky.

My lab has some publications and pre-prints out on a new-to-us topic: microbiomes of Human Excrement Composting (yep, you read that right: 💩➡️🌻). If you're interested, start here with a two-page editorial introducing the topic and why we care: microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Do you use Zenodo for archiving QIIME 2 data for publications? We now support loading QIIME 2 Results (Artifacts and Visualizations) directly from Zenodo with QIIME 2 View. Check out the links in this Zenodo record, which references data from a new @cap-lab.bio pub: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

I'm excited to share a new pre-print (𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐨𝐭𝐚 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭; arxiv.org/abs/2404.07325) by Chloe Herman et al. which discusses approaches that have been applied to quantify donor #microbiome engraftment extent and presents recommendations for your #FMT work.

Happy Monday! Start your week off w/ a new QIIME 2 release: @qiime2 2024.2. There's a lot in this one, including new parallel actions in the shotgun distribution, a fancy new visualizer (summarize-plus), for summarizing feature tables & performance enhancements and minor fixes throughout. Enjoy!

The course lectures & symposium talks from the 2023 @isbsci.bsky.social Virtual Microbiome Series are now edited & posted to YouTube! If you have students who need a crash course in 16S data analysis or community-scale metabolic modeling, send them here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Provenance is so important

Ever wonder how your collaborators analyzed your data? Maybe pull out your hair trying to reverse-engineer their code? Never fear, Provenance Replay is here! (Please process your microbiome data responsibly.) 🦠🧪🧬🖥️ #metasci

QIIME 2 Provenance Replay auto-generates the code for creating QIIME 2 results from QIIME 2 results & builds "bioinformatics reproducibility supplements" for your papers. Our goal is to make it easy for you to perform reproducible, replicable & robust bioinformatics. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Exciting times to be at NAU! This semester we shared that we're creating a School of Medicine & will begin recruiting MD students & in 2025 we will be an R1! Many new faculty, PhD, & other open positions on the horizon - keep NAU on your radar if you're looking! news.nau.edu/r1-designati...

Currently reading The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles nand2tetris.org. This is the most fun I've had with a computer in a long time. 6 projects down, 6 to go, and I've already learned so much.

Hello BlueSky! It seems like a lot of folks I follow share their birding pics here, so I figured I may as well start there (even though I'm not really a birder). This is a California Condor I spotted at Grand Canyon, and thanks to its tag (01) and condorspotter.com I know it's a 12 year old male.