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RootPath @rootpath.com · 23/09/2025

The results are in! Here are the five winners of the 1st cycle of Megabase Spark to receive 100 kb of rBlocks™ synthetic DNA: 🏆 @emcrae.bsky.social (Houston Methodist) 🏆 @osn-scott.bsky.social 🏆 Cholpisit Ice Kiattisewee 🏆 @hansgerstmans.bsky.social 🏆 ‪‪@hannevdc.bsky.social‬ Follow for cycle #2!

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Masschelein Lab @masscheleinlab.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

... Dries De Ruysscher, @hansgerstmans.bsky.social, Giel Vanreppelen, Laura-Lynn Huybrechts

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Mitja M. Zdouc @mmzdouc.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Have you ever used a #bioinformatics #database and were frustrated by its lack of coverage? Did you ever think about starting your own resource? We just published a new strategy for community-driven #biocuration, based on our experiences with the #MIBiG database (1/8)! doi.org/10.1093/bib/...

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Strategies for community-sourced biocuration in bioinformatics: a case study on MIBiG 4.0

Abstract. Biocuration is essential to transform molecular sequence data into standardized, machine-readable resources. Such curated datasets enable compara

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RootPath @rootpath.com · 16/07/2025

We are excited to share another #MegabaseSpark submission, from @hannevdc.bsky.social: "Breaking Protein Interactions for Drug Discovery" (detail in reply) Like and repost if you like this idea! #SynBio #SyntheticBiology

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RootPath @rootpath.com · 17/07/2025

We'd like to share another bid for 100 kb of free DNA, as part of our 3 Mb give-away initiative called #MegabaseSpark. Here submission from @hansgerstmans.bsky.social: "Refactored BGC for Potent Breast Cancer Therapy" (details below). Like and repost if you like this idea! #SynBio #SyntheticBiology

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Mitja M. Zdouc @mmzdouc.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Are you working on natural products? We’ve just released version 4.0 of the MIBiG data standard and repository! It now includes 3059 biosynthetic gene clusters, thanks to the combined efforts of 288 expert contributors. A thread: (1/8) academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

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MIBiG 4.0: advancing biosynthetic gene cluster curation through global collaboration

Abstract. Specialized or secondary metabolites are small molecules of biological origin, often showing potent biological activities with applications in ag

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