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Todd J. Treangen

@treangen

Computational tools for microbial genomics, metagenomics, & public health πŸ§¬πŸ¦ πŸ”Ž Associate Professor of Computer Science, Rice University πŸ¦‰πŸ’» Treangen Lab website: www.treangenlab.com

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Our new preprint on quantifying microbial sample diversity/complexity in a way that accounts for both metagenome architecture and taxonomic composition is now live on bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#metagenomics #bioinformatics #dataanalysis #graphdata

13.03.2026 18:28 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Recent updates Contribute to treangenlab/emu development by creating an account on GitHub.

I enjoyed reading your post @jimshaw.bsky.social and learning about Savont, thank you for the comparison to Emu and kudos on your new tool!

relevant to points raised in the post, the Emu development team has compiled our follow-up thoughts here: github.com/treangenlab/...

13.02.2026 20:02 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Some of my work from the first year of my PhD is out as a preprint, please check it out!

Virus evolution is rapid and prolific both across and within individuals. However, a significant amount of variation remains hidden due to computational bottlenecks in read-alignment and variant calling

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08.12.2025 15:03 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Congrats to Bryce Kille on absolutely smashing his PhD defense at Rice today with advisor @treangen.bsky.social ! Collaborating with Bryce over the past few years has been an absolute delight πŸ‘πŸŽ‰πŸ‘πŸŽ‰

27.01.2025 20:56 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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We're hiring: Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology. Come join us: Excellent and supportive colleagues at a private university with a beautiful campus and great students! please RT
#RiceEEB #EEBjobs #phdchat #facultyjobs

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21.08.2024 14:54 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3
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Had a great lab retreat on Saturday at rice together with @svillapol.bsky.social and @treangen.bsky.social lab. Amazing talks, discussions and overlap of interests. Won't be the last one :)

29.04.2024 13:45 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

10 years on, @bkille.bsky.social @treangen.bsky.social and co. have refreshed Parsnp with a version 2! Build a core genome multi-alignment for 100k SARS genomes or 1k Mtb genomes in under an hour πŸ’¨

01.02.2024 13:26 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Great day in my life!! Finally defended my Ph.D.!
I can’t do this without the guidance of my Ph.D. advisor
@treangen.bsky.social and my co-advisor @sedlazeck.bsky.social ! I’ll soon join @sedlazeck.bsky.social ’s group at as an postdoc focusing on cancer genetics and cancer epigenetics.

28.11.2023 03:14 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Distinguished Lecture: Dr. Adam Phillippy A Ken Kennedy Institute Distinguished Lecture by Dr. Adam Phillippy, Senior Investigator at National Human Genome Research Institute, National Inst...

I was waiting for a great topic for my first Bluesky post, and I cannot thing of a better one: I’m thrilled to be hosting @aphillippy.bsky.social at Rice University today and looking forward to his talk at 4pm! events.rice.edu/event/345896...

14.11.2023 15:59 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

"Minmers are a generalization of minimizers that enable unbiased local jaccard estimation" aka MashMap3 with Bryce Kille, @erikg.bsky.social, and @treangen.bsky.social is now accepted in Bioinformatics! Many thanks to the reviewers for their very careful reviews doi.org/10.1093/bioi...

12.09.2023 19:43 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1