A journal trialled paying their reviewers and found it led to faster first editorial decisions – and increased review quality go.nature.com/3RcRfpY

A newly released AI tool has generated an atlas of more than one billion predicted protein structures and billions more protein sequences. go.nature.com/4wS3Pen

🔥🔥🔥PREPRINT OUT🔥🔥🔥 microRNA annotation gets much easier!!! MirMachine 2 is out! Preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202...

Happy to share that our work with Ekaterina Osipova, @maggiemcko.bsky.social, Tim Sackton, Maude Baldwin & fantastic collaborators on convergent and lineage-specific genomic adaptations in sugar-feeding birds is published in Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... While high sugar intake ...

Happy to present TOGA2, developed by Yury Malovichko @ymalovichko.bsky.social, the faster, memory-efficient & more accurate TOGA1 successor (github.com/hillerlab/TO...). And annotations, orthologs & gene loss/dup data generated with 4 references for 883 placental mammal and with 5 refs for 676 ...

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So happy to see this paper out in @natecoevo.nature.com. Huge congrats to the whole team, and especially to @fany-real.bsky.social, @dariloops.bsky.social, @stemundi.bsky.social, Magdalena Schindler & Christian Feregrino. Ever wondered how bats develop wings from their hands? 🦇 Enjoy the read ;) 👇

Succes!! We tested the @10xgenomics.bsky.social new Visium HD 3' kits on our beloved bats🦇Big thanks to @cyrildegletagne.bsky.social @crcl-research.bsky.social Clara Renou Marie-Laure Schneider and Carole Audoynaud for making it possible! New results to come for NOVELTEETH :) @erc.europa.eu

A news article for a lay summary also: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Our paper is out in @nature.com nature.com/articles/s41.... We contribute to understanding how #bats are unique, particularly immune system adaptations. @hillermich.bsky.social @batresearch.bsky.social @virology.bsky.social @DGKontopoulos.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social ++++