Save the date! The 17th DrosEU workshop will be held in České Budějovice on the 24th to 26th May 2027. Thanks to @janhreck.bsky.social for hosting us! #Drosophila #genomics
The concise history of modeling character evolution. Handy timeline.
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🧪 #EvoBio #Paleobio
This is really big (if it works!)—a big limitation for the use of R in simulation up to this point has been memory bloat. I’ve had to turn off parallel processing/reduce the number of workers many times in my {targets} workflows due to OOM errors. Hopefully this will solve that problem
#RStats
Pine Processionary Moth chromosome-level #genome Assembly by @mgda76.bsky.social, @prrnhd.bsky.social et al. in Journal of Heredity @theaga.bsky.social. 615.9 Mb 50 pseudochromosomes 12,898 annotated genes @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jhered/artic...
Recipe for a Good π. How to Properly Estimate Population Genetics Summary Statistics and Why we Should Systematically Report Them academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
The Drosophila melanogaster Genetic Reference Panel, Version 3 (DGRP3) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.29.728783v1
Current bwa-mem users are encouraged to try minibwa as minibwa is planned to replace bwa-mem (but not minimap2).
Source code:
* minibwa in C: github.com/lh3/minibwa
* minibwa-rs (Rust rewrite by AI): github.com/henriksson-l...
David Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolution • "Instead of being quiescent, natural selection is everywhere."
Minibwa is a hybrid of bwa-mem and minimap2 and the successor of bwa-mem for short-read mapping. ~4X/2.5X as fast as bwa-mem/bwa-mem2 for WGS reads at comparable accuracy. Native support of directional bisulfite-seq. Applicable to long reads. Preprint at arxiv.org/abs/2606.15357
Abstract. Many long-standing questions in population genomics can now be addressed through comparative analyses and by leveraging the vast amount of genomi
