Peter Menzel

enclose.horse A puzzle game about enclosing horses.

Got a perfect score for the first time 😎
enclose.horse Day 33
💎 PERFECT! 💎 100%

URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯

Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.

This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.

RNA Resources Project Leader About the team/job We are recruiting a Project Leader to spearhead the development of the RNAcentral and Rfam databases. Rfam and RNAcentral are key resources for RNA Biology that serve tens of thousa...

An opportunity to run the greatest little RNA Databases that can, Rfam & RNAcentral: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
The only downside is you have to live near Cambridge in the UK.

Limited value of Nanopore adaptive sampling in a long-read metagenomic profiling workflow of clinical sputum samples https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.25.645176v1

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

Our new GenSpectrum.org dashboard has finally launched! Using Influenza H5N1, RSV and SARS-CoV-2 data from INSDC and West Nile virus data from @pathoplexus.org, it enables fast and interactive analyses of genome sequencing data similar to CoV-Spectrum. 1/5

Great three-part blog post by James Fellows Yates about adding software to bioconda: ubinfie.github.io/2024/08/16/a...

Variability and bias in microbiome metagenomic sequencing: an interlaboratory study comparing experimental protocols - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Variability and bias in microbiome metagenomic sequencing: an interlaboratory study comparing experimental protocols

Variability and bias in microbiome metagenomic sequencing: an interlaboratory study comparing experimental protocols www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Snakemake workflows for long-read bacterial genome assembly and evaluation in @gigabytejournal.bsky.social: gigabytejournal.com/articles/116

Great news! btw, the link to microbiologyresearch.org/journal/mgen/scope on the page is broken (and leaks a user name).

Comparative Genomics of Pandoraea, a Genus Enriched in Xenobiotic Biodegradation and Metabolism Comparative analysis of partial gyrB, recA and gltB gene sequences of 84 Pandoraea reference strains and field isolates revealed several clusters that included no taxonomic reference strains. The gyrB...

P. commovens was first described in 2019 by Peeters et al. in www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

Outbreak of <em>Pandoraea commovens</em> among Non–Cystic Fibrosis Intensive Care Patients, German... <em>P. commovens</em> among Non–Cystic Fibrosis Patients

New paper about a nosocomial outbreak of Pandoraea commovens: wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...