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Martin Hunt

@martibartfast

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Deacon can now run in the browser using WebAssembly. Sequence data never leaves your machine. It currently supports FASTA/Q filtering using indexes up to 1GB in size.

Demo: bede.im/deacon

03.03.2026 14:30 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Release SeqKit v2.13.0 (10-year-old birthday version) Β· shenwei356/seqkit Changelog SeqKit is 10 years old! SeqKit v2.13.0 - 2026-02-28 seqkit: add support for reading and writing LZ4 compression format. new command: seqkit sample2: improved seqkit sample by @stahiga....

Can't wait to release a 10-year-old birthday version for SeqKit!

- 10 years
- 2 papers, 3500 citations
- 20 contributors
- 40 subcommands
- 880 commits
- 500 issues
- 685.5K Bioconda total downloads

Thank you all, dear contributors and users!
I'll keep maintaining it.

github.com/shenwei356/s...

27.02.2026 13:25 πŸ‘ 124 πŸ” 35 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1
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It sure is fun!

26.02.2026 23:38 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Overview β€” AllTheBacteria documentation

Courtesy of @martibartfast.bsky.social , we have a new release of AllTheBacteria which adds another 322,920 assemblies, covering all ENA (illumina, isolate) prokaryotes to May 2025.
allthebacteria.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ov...

26.02.2026 15:48 πŸ‘ 62 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3
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Addressing pandemic-wide systematic errors in the SARS-CoV-2 phylogeny - Nature Methods This Resource paper presents a global SARS-CoV-2 phylogenetic tree of 4,471,579 high-quality genomes consistently constructed by Viridian, an efficient amplicon-aware assembler.

A long time ago in a galaxy far away, there was a SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Our paper, led by @martibartfast.bsky.social
a) correcting errors in 4.5 million genomes & their phylogeny
b) improving representation of the Global South in public data
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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09.02.2026 15:16 πŸ‘ 137 πŸ” 66 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 6

What a day for Prog albums! Big Big Train, and the 13 year wait for new Karnivool is over. Both πŸ”₯

06.02.2026 20:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ziplign published in JOSS. Tool to easily interactively compare two bacteria genomes. Inspired by ACT, but easier to install and use. Drag and drop files, or download using accessions. It runs blast for you. No terminal needed. github.com/martinghunt/...

02.02.2026 08:55 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Delighted to see this paper from danderson123.bsky.social 's PhD out. We have been building tools for AMR gene detection for over a decade now, but multicopy genes remain challenging. Dan shows that with a gene-space de Bruijn graph and long reads, you can do well
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

19.05.2025 09:28 πŸ‘ 89 πŸ” 50 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 4

Is a great paper! I have vague memories of an option that meant you don’t get all the matches (not that you get zero matches), but irrelevant seeing as you’re getting the first hit

29.04.2025 15:42 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Three roles currently advertised, all to help us develop and validate genetic pipelines for processing pathogens with EIT Oxford.

RA/PDRA (Grade 6/7)
noon 10 Feb
bit.ly/4jANpAc

Senior Bioinformatician (G8)
12 Feb
bit.ly/4hcMB3b

Senior Medical Statistican (G8)
14 Feb
bit.ly/4hcMEfn

31.01.2025 11:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

I'm putting together a Microbial Bioinformatics starter pack to help get everyone connected in our community. Let me know if there are any bluesky users to be added and share so that twitter refugees can tune back in to the fantastic world microbes go.bsky.app/3ezLo7e

10.01.2025 09:38 πŸ‘ 107 πŸ” 61 πŸ’¬ 27 πŸ“Œ 0
One-page introduction of LexicMap, a sequence alignment tool scalable to millions of prokaryotic genomes.

One-page introduction of LexicMap, a sequence alignment tool scalable to millions of prokaryotic genomes.

We're thrilled to introduce LexicMap v0.5.0πŸŽ‰
It's more accurate and slightly faster!

LexicMap has helped some scientists align genes and plasmids in AllTheBacteria and GenBank, each has > 2 million prokaryotic genomes!

We'll provide an index for ATB on AWS later.

github.com/shenwei356/L...

19.12.2024 09:32 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

@julianparkhill.bsky.social I've added annotation (and sequence) search. It's in a the new release 0.2.0

16.12.2024 12:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Release Version 0.2.0 Β· martinghunt/tna Added: Option to download genomes instead of providing files Search for nucleotide sequence Search for annotation features Copy selected sequence to clipboard. Line length configurable in Settings...

πŸ“£ New TNA release 0.2.0. What's changed?

Search for sequence or annotation. Download genomes from NCBI. Copy/paste sequence. Better performance - can now handle large numbers of BLAST hits instead of freezing.

tna.readthedocs.io/en/v0.2.0/in...
github.com/martinghunt/...

16.12.2024 12:56 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Good news, Altmetric has now started watching BlueSky for mentions of publications. And by the way, provides an easy comparison between this and the old site for a recent preprint of mine which I posted simultaneousl at both. Numbers speak by themselves !

02.12.2024 18:35 πŸ‘ 846 πŸ” 221 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 18

🌟 Excited to share my latest preprint with @lachlanjmc.bsky.social on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social: "Genome size estimation from long read overlaps”! πŸš€

Check it out here: doi.org/10.1101/2024...
And find the code here: github.com/mbhall88/lrge

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03.12.2024 01:38 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Thanks! Good idea, I’ll add that to the list of features to implement

29.11.2024 15:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

You guessed it! Yes, that’s the acronym

29.11.2024 12:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

TNA is like a β€œminimal ACT”, but with extra features I’ve always wanted: easy Mac install, handle multi-FASTA files, run BLAST for you, show detailed alignment when zoomed in (SNPs/indels), easy contig revcomp/reordering, save/load to/from one file

29.11.2024 11:39 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
TNA documentation β€” TNA 0.0.1 documentation

I just made a first release of TNA - new tool to compare 2 bacterial genomes. Is shamelessly inspired by ACT, but should be simpler to use. Drag-n-drop two genomes: it runs BLAST for you and then you can visualize. For Mac, Windows 11, Linux tna.readthedocs.io

29.11.2024 11:38 πŸ‘ 175 πŸ” 69 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 8