Excited to have our new paper on phylogenetic marker genes online!

Augmenting microbial phylogenomic signal with tailored marker gene sets www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

ANCOM-BC in Python! scikit-bio 0.7.1 introduces a native implementation of this widely used differential abundance test. Same validated methodology, consistent results, and blazing fast! Scalable to very large datasets. Try it out: scikit.bio/docs/latest/... #Bioinformatics #Microbiome #OpenSource

(1/2) Announcing scikit-bio 0.7.0 (scikit.bio) -- A major upgrade for microbiome & multi-omics data science! Enhanced differential abundance testing, new sequence alignment engine, GPU-ready log-ratio transformations, scalable PCoA and PERMANOVA with binaries,...

Skin bacteria are subject to dispersal and chance across 22 amphibian species, yet contemporary and historical contingencies (e.g., #phylosymbiosis) leave strong signatures in their microbiomes even at large geographical scales. doi.org/10.1111/mec....

A decade of waiting has led to this!

Thrilled to share our new preprint on finer and flexible marker gene selection for microbial phylogenomics. Given any input genomes and an arbitrary number, it will find this number of useful markers. Effective with highly incomplete MAGs. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Check out raxtax, our new open-source tool for taxonomic classification of barcoding sequences, it's 2.7-1000 times faster than competing tools and also implements fancy uncertainty scores: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Metabuli App preprint is out! 💻Taxonomic classification & interactive visualization—right on your laptop 🛠️Create new databases or update existing ones with new sequences. 🧵1/5 github.com/steineggerla... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.10.642298v1

Happy to see a large chunk of my PhD work published today in Cell Host&Microbe: www.cell.com/cell-host-mi... We conducted fluorescence-activated single-cell sorting of active predatory protists in the ocean and recovered symbionts with cool evolutionary positions close to animal pathogens.

I'm pleased to introduce our new paper rooting the eukaryote Tree of Life (eToL) that resulted from a collaboration led by PhD student Kelsey Williamson and a large group of collaborators doi.org/10.1038/s415...htt

Thanks to @jay.bsky.team for writing the foreword for Bluesky for Dummies. We can’t wait until it’s out in the world. Pre-order now wherever you purchase books. Vancouver friends can order from independent shops like @bookwarehouse.bsky.social @crossandcrowsbooks.bsky.social @banyen.bsky.social

Awwww yeah, check this out: snowflake yeast making their cover debut! www.nature.com/nature/volum... We have two papers in this issue: 1) A paper examining whole genome duplication in the MuLTEE 2) A review of long-term experiments in evolutionary biology led by @jameststroud.bsky.social 🧪