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📢 Are you at #VAAM2026? 👉 Stop by the NFDI4Microbiota booth to learn how we can support you with training, data analysis, and making your microbiome research easier to share, reuse, and scale. And don’t miss today’s panel discussion at 1:30 in Lecture Hall B! We’d love to meet you 👋!

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Strain diversity influences microbiome functions, and can be assessed with metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs). But many MAGs are inaccurate! Benchmarking of shotgun sequencing by ⭐ @treichelnicole.bsky.social ⭐ with @nfdi4microbiota.bsky.social , in @natmicrobiol.nature.com 👉 rdcu.be/feAWc

Check out our work on E. coli capsules! Including a 3x extended catalog of capsule loci from >37K genomes, a scalable tool to type them in silico (kTYPr) and new associations with ecology and disease! A joint effort from @microbiomeresearch.bsky.social @mucosalimmunology.bsky.social at @ethz.ch.

📝 Only a few days left to submit your abstract! Take the opportunity to present your research, workflows, tools, and #FAIR data management approaches at the Boosting Biodata Bootcamp 2026! 👉 Abstract submission: events.hifis.net/event/3702/a... 📅 Submission deadline: 1 June #biology #rdm #nfdi

Are you at #DGE26? 👋 So are we! Stop by the NFDI4Microbiota booth to explore how we can help make your microbiome research FAIR and easier to share, reuse, and amplify. Let’s connect, exchange ideas, and talk data. We’d love to meet you! #microbiome #NFDI #FAIR #rdm

In my latest column, I explain some of my reasons for being deeply skeptical about AI models that claim to understand DNA, genes, and genomes: stevensalzberg.substack.com/p/ai-is-star...

Nature Microbiology - A comparison of sequencing of complex mock communities performed at multiple depths and analysed using different methods establishes minimum standards that can ensure the...

So happy to see this out 🎉 it all started with a discussion group of ECR brought together by the NCCR Microbiomes and cumulated in this primer on microbial community ecology. This was such a fun group project, where I learned a lot about how cool both microbial and human communities are 🤩

Out Now! In silico typing maps the natural diversity of Escherichia coli transporter-dependent capsules #MicroSky

Nature Microbiology, Published online: 24 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41564-026-02344-0Shotgun metagenomic sequencing is a comprehensive untargeted next-generation sequencing method that enables culture-independent analysis of complex microbial communities. Comparing the results of several metagenome-based analyses at various sequencing depths for known input illustrates which methods and amounts of data are most suitable for determining microbial composition, accuracy of metagenome-assembled genomes and functional coverage.

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Nature Microbiology, Published online: 23 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41564-026-02323-5Escherichia coli ABC transporter-dependent capsule gene analysis alongside the development and application of the kTYPr in silico capsule typing tool uncovers E. coli capsule diversity across environments.

The Cluster of Excellence EXC 2124 “Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections” (CMFI) at the University of Tübingen invites applications for Indepen...

Delighted to see this out in its final form! doi.org/10.1093/isme... We established a discussion group focussed on the history of community ecology and how it informs our understanding of microbiota. This review distils those discussions to provide a guide for microbiologists entering the field

Abstract. Many microbiological outcomes are shaped by the determinants of community composition, including the factors that allow pathogens to invade healt