So enjoyable to work with both @bkoskella.bsky.social & @dholtappels.bsky.social on this project! Which started as a brilliant idea from Britt at the Wiko, and has continued remotely since (ft also a lovely trip to Berkeley!) ☺️ yay for team science!

COBRA improves the completeness and contiguity of viral genomes assembled from metagenomes www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧬🖥️ github.com/linxingchen/...

Revised preprint: Phage predation is a biomarker for disease severity and shapes pathogen genetic diversity in cholera patients. To support major conclusions, we repeated key analyses using qPCR instead of metagenomics to quantify phage ICP1 and V. cholerae www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Nice to see how the arbitrium story evolves!

Fabulous work by my colleagues - Stick'em with the pointy end ... UNLESS ...??? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our paper looking into the phenomenon of domain mosaicism in phages is now out in Nature Communications. Work led by Bogna Smug together with Krzysztof Szczepaniak, @epcrocha.bsky.social and @staszekdh.bsky.social. See a short thread. 1/7 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Microsky #Phagesky Interesting "primer for evolutionary biologists interested in studying social evolution in viruses" 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...