Associate Professor of Digital Biology, @royalsociety.org Wolfson Fellow at Faculty of Life Sciences @dundee.ac.uk‬, Fellow of @camphilsoc.bsky.social. Former Group Leader at @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social and PostDoc at @cam.ac.uk‬ & Trinity College Cambridge.
Hajk-Georg Drost
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EMERALD-UI is now officially published in Bioinformatics 🎉
👉 EMERALD-UI Paper: lnkd.in/eAzPMunF
👉 Web-Interface: lnkd.in/edFmUPYu
👉 EMERALD Command Line Tool: lnkd.in/eUNMfEtK
EMERALD-UI is an interactive platform to explore what we call the alternative alignment space of (divergent) proteins.
DIAMOND DeepClust: an ultrafast clustering method for organizing the protein universe of life.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🌱 We’re excited to launch the BBSRC-funded UK Plant Epigenetics Network (UK-PEN) with our inaugural workshop (free!):
“Plant Epigenetics: From Model to Crop Species”
📅 11–12 June 2026
đź“Ť Uni of Dundee (hybrid)
We look forward to welcoming you!
Feel free to repost to help us reach the community
The real question now is not can we compute this,
but what will we build on top of it?
We particularly thank @plantevolution.bsky.social and Max Planck Computing and Data Facility (MPCDF) for their generous sponsorship and extraordinary support of this work.
I am extremely grateful to receive a Research Leadership Award from the Leverhulme Trust to study the epigenetic mechanisms underlying environmental stress memory in crops @dundee.ac.uk and @hutton.ac.uk 🍓🍅🌱
I’ll be advertising positions in our group soon - stay tuned!
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Congratulations to @caroleduchene.bsky.social and all the authors on this beautiful work exploring the inheritance of endogenous viral insertions in algae. It was a pleasure to contribute to this study and I am sure this is only the beginning of many exciting discoveries! 🌿 @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social
New Pre-Print Alert!
Evolving initial conditions: an alternative developmental route to morphological diversity
with Shannon Taylor and @jamesehammond.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
This was an enormous team effort with @bbuchfink.bsky.social, @emile3203.bsky.social, @haimashkenazy.bsky.social, Klaus Reuter & John A Kennedy who built a powerful discovery system to inspire protein biology research at tree of life scale.
How much protein diversity can Life on Earth actually generate?
With DIAMOND DeepClust, we show how billions of proteins across the tree of life can be clustered at low-identity for downstream analytics tasks.
đź“šPaper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
đź’»Code: github.com/bbuchfink/di...
