New preprint! 🚨
Phage proteins don't act alone. Phages rely on homooligomerisation to assemble identical protein subunits into functional forms. But figuring out those exact configurations experimentally is tough. Learn about our approach in our new preprint! 👇 (1/n)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Thrilled that our paper "Eco-evolutionary dynamics of massive, parallel bacteriophage outbreaks in compost communities" is out! 🎉🦠🧬
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
w/ @paulbrainey.bsky.social, Petros Skiadas, Paulien Hogeweg, @bedutilh.bsky.social
If you do any work with DNA sequencing at some point, you need to assemble the reads.
Usually, we just use the contigs, but that ignores important evidence from your data, so @vijinim.bsky.social wrote agtools to explore the assembly graph and learn more!
academic.oup.com/bioinformati...
World-leading Aussie science fighting #AntimicrobialResistance!
PhD student George Bouras added 17M bacterial protein predictions to the #AlphaFold database.
This was made possible by a partnership between BioCommons & @pawseycentre.bsky.social to containerise #ColabFold on Setonix.
Read more 🔗
www.biorxiv.org
Language Modeling Materializes a World Model of Protein Biology https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.03.729735v1
🚨 Registration for VEGA26 is 👏 officially open 👏 🚨
The 5th edition of our Viral EcoGenomics and Applications symposium will be held November 18-19, 2026, on the UC Berkeley campus 🧬 🦠 🔬 🧫
Event website ➡️ jgi.doe.gov/work-with-us...
Registration link ➡️ cvent.me/e0RnA0
Susie Grigson
A single bacteriophage can dominate microbial communities yet only evolves when migration changes its ecological context.
AbstractMotivation. Assembly graphs are a fundamental data structure used by genome and metagenome assemblers to represent sequences and their overlap info
Australian researcher, George Bouras, has recently contributed an extraordinary 17 million protein predictions to the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database. This work was possible thanks to the availability of the ColabFold tool on Setonix AMD, the result of collaboration between BioCommons and the P
