Still processing the news of Peer Bork’s passing. During TREC and TARA projects in Estonia, I witnessed firsthand his scientific depth and human warmth. His legacy will echo through generations of microbiome research. RIP.

very sad news. Peer Bork was one of the leaders of our field, a wonderful scientist, and he's much too young to be gone. www.embl.org/news/embl-an...

🧬 Long-read metabarcoding is powerful, but chimera filters can trash good reads. Our new study benchmarks three algorithms on full-length ITS and shows how false positives distort results. 🔗 peerj.com/articles/204... #Metabarcoding #LongRead #Bioinformatics #Chimeras

Fungal phylum-level classification update now available! Used "innovative taxonomy" to describe >100 taxa, from species to phylum, based on long reads, characteristic nucleotides and env-samples. mycokeys.pensoft.net/article/1616... #fungi #taxonomy #PacBio #classification #eDNA

New #metagenome assembly comparison of PacBio, ONT, and Illumina in human gut #microbiomes. - "HiFi generated more cMAGs than ONT at every depth with either assembly method" - "HiFi cMAGs had significantly higher completeness and lower contamination than ONT" doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

Read more from here: ERC grant will support placement of tens of thousands of previously unknown fungi on evolutionary tree ut.ee/en/news/erc-...

Looking for a database to functionally assign your 18S (terrestrial)data to trophic groups? Look no further! Our article is published here: doi.org/10.1111/1755... and you can find the database here as a R package: github.com/lentendu/Euk... #soils #eukaryotes #protists #fungi

Do you (like me) create a bunch of conda environments, then later forget what they're for, when they were last updated, or which tools are in them? If so, you might this little project: github.com/rrwick/conda...

While oil palms and pastures alter tropical stream microorganisms, riparian buffers offer a lifeline. 🚑💧 Saving biodiversity could depend on protecting these green corridors. 🔗 Read more: doi.org/10.1111/fwb.... #eDNA #FreshwaterBiology #conservation

EUKARYOME v1.9.3 now available in eukaryome.org A special release of long reads of marine microeukaryotes

I started an #eDNA starter pack as one didn’t exist yet. Feel free to message me to get your name added. Open to all! go.bsky.app/U2vgV5Q

End-to-end simulation of nanopore sequencing signals with feed-forward transformers https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/advance-article/doi/10.1093/bioinformatics/btae744/7930676 🧬🖥️🧪 https://github.com/ZKI-PH-ImageAnalysis/seq2squiggle

New preprint led by Ruben Gonzalez-Miguens for a new coi database that should be useful to annotate metabarcoding datasets with protists. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...