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Juan Manuel Trinidad Barnech

@jtrinidad13.bsky.social
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PhD. Bioinformatic. Evolutionary biologist. Kinetoplastid research.

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Casey Dunn @caseywdunn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
My new book, Phylogenetic Biology, is now published. Available online for free at dunnlab.org/phylogenetic... . Physical copies can be purchased at shop.lightningsource.com/b/085?params... or your favorite bookstore.
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Claudia Alvarez Carreño @claudiaalcar.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
TEDLH is out! 🎉 A library of 900K+ HMMs for sensitive protein domain searches, built from TED and mapped to CATH (@cathgene3d.bsky.social). Give it a look! #Bioinformatics #ProteinDomains Paper: doi.org/10.1093/bioi... Library: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
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TEDLH: domain HMMs for sensitive detection of remote homologues
AbstractMotivation. The Encyclopedia of Domains (TED) provides domain annotations for proteins in the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database (AFDB) using a c
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Juan Manuel Trinidad Barnech @jtrinidad13.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
So happy to see our work finally published in @pnas.org! 🥳 This project was a deep dive into convergent evolution, HGT, and gene fission. It shows how messy and beautiful evolution can be. Huge thanks to the amazing team involved! Read the full paper here: 🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Irene del Rey Navalón @irenedelrey.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
✨Our preprint about the evolution and origins of the aerobic plasmalogen biosynthesis pathway is now published in @pnas.org ! 🧫Our beloved myxobacteria share more than we think with eukaryotes Great collaboration with @multicellgenome.bsky.social and @jtrinidad13.bsky.social
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Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo @multicellgenome.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
It was a pleasure working with such a group of people lead by Montse with @jtrinidad13.bsky.social @irenedelrey.bsky.social @konsmitsi.bsky.social @sebasn1.bsky.social and others!
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Juan Manuel Trinidad Barnech @jtrinidad13.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Wrapping up an incredible final day at the APSPM meeting! Huge thanks to the organizers @cpuentelelievre.bsky.social @proteinmechanic.bsky.social Jordan Douglas and all the speakers for the brilliant talks and rich discussions. Beautiful Brisbane! #StrPhy #StrPhy26 #StructuralPhylogenetics
Brisbane night
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Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo @multicellgenome.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Indeed! Very nice collaboration with @irenedelrey.bsky.social @sebasn1.bsky.social @konsmitsi.bsky.social @jtrinidad13.bsky.social Montse Elias, Padhu & others to decipher the origin of the #plasmalogen biosynthesis pathway. @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @icreacommunity.bsky.social @csic.es
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Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦 @martinsteinegger.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
MMseqs2-GPU sets new standards in single query search speed, allows near instant search of big databases, scales to multiple GPUs and is fast beyond VRAM. It enables ColabFold MSA generation in seconds and sub-second Foldseek search against AFDB50. 1/n 📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 💿 mmseqs.com
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GPU-accelerated homology search with MMseqs2 - Nature Methods
Graphics processing unit-accelerated MMseqs2 offers tremendous speedups for homology retrieval from metagenomic databases, query-centered multiple sequence alignment generation for structure predictio...
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Rosa Fernández @rosafernandez.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
FANTASIA's paper is finally out! Check it out if you're interested in alternative methods to homology for functional annotation in nonmodel organisms 🦐🐙🪱🧬🐝🪲 @gemmaeling.bsky.social @amrojasm.bsky.social @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social @csic.es www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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FANTASIA leverages language models to decode the functional dark proteome across the animal tree of life
Communications Biology - FANTASIA, a protein language model-based tool, enables large-scale functional annotation across ~1000 animal proteomes, revealing novel gene functions in both model and...
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Yo Akiyama @yoakiyama.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Excited to share work with Zhidian Zhang, @milot.bsky.social, @martinsteinegger.bsky.social, and @sokrypton.org biorxiv.org/content/10.1... TLDR: We introduce MSA Pairformer, a 111M parameter protein language model that challenges the scaling paradigm in self-supervised protein language modeling🧵
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Scaling down protein language modeling with MSA Pairformer
Recent efforts in protein language modeling have focused on scaling single-sequence models and their training data, requiring vast compute resources that limit accessibility. Although models that use ...
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Sebastian Deorowicz @sdeorowicz.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Interested in a tool that aligns millions of proteins in minutes with quality similar to or better than the state-of-the-art utilities? Please take a look at our FAMSA2 paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... and GH repo: github.com/refresh-bio/...
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FAMSA2 enables accurate multiple sequence alignment at protein-universe scale
We introduce FAMSA2, an algorithm that produces high-accuracy multiple protein sequence alignments with unprecedented speed. Across structural, phylogenetic, and functional benchmarks, FAMSA2 matches ...
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georghochberg.bsky.social @georghochberg.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
New paper from the lab from Sriram Garg in my group. We introduce a general substitution matrix for structural phylogenetics. I think this is a big deal, so read on below if you think deep history is important. academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...
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A general substitution matrix for structural phylogenetics.
Abstract. Sequence-based maximum likelihood (ML) phylogenetics is a widely used method for inferring evolutionary relationships, which has illuminated the
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EMBL-EBI @ebi.embl.org · 12/06/2025
InterPro just got one of its biggest updates ever. Now with 1.8 billion AI-driven protein annotations, AlphaFold-based TED domains, and viral proteins from the Big Fantastic Virus Database (BFVD). See it all at www.ebi.ac.uk/interpro 🖥️🧬 @interprodb.bsky.social
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Juan Manuel Trinidad Barnech @jtrinidad13.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Excited to share the results of my PhD! Using advanced protein structure comparisons, we uncovered remote homologs and revealed essential eukaryotic genes “lost” in kinetoplastids – what I like to call the “missing gears.” Discover more: journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
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Expanding kinetoplastid genome annotation through protein structure comparison
Kinetoplastids are a group of parasites that cause severe diseases in the poorest regions of the world. Despite the increasing amount of genomic information available on these parasites, predicting th...
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Matthew Hahn @3rdreviewer.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Not really my announcement to make--I am but a lesser co-author--but IQ-TREE 3 has just been released! (Most credit to Minh Bui and @roblanfear.bsky.social and their labs) ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
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IQ-TREE 3: Phylogenomic Inference Software using Complex Evolutionary Models
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Laura Eme @lauraeme.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 A robustly rooted tree of eukaryotes sheds light on their deep evolutionary ancestry—suggesting that the Last Eukaryotic Common Ancestor (LECA) may have had an excavate-like cell architecture. 🧵🔬 (1/) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A robustly rooted tree of eukaryotes reveals their excavate ancestry - Nature
The root of the eukaryote Tree of Life is estimated from a new, larger dataset of mitochondrial proteins including all known eukaryotic supergroups, showing it lies between two multi-supergroup assemb...
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EMBL-EBI @ebi.embl.org · 03/03/2025
🚀 #AlphaFold Database update AlphaFold DB now integrates The Encyclopedia of Domains (TED) – a resource designed to systematically identify & classify structural domains within AlphaFold-predicted protein structures. www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/u... @pdbeurope.bsky.social
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Polarization has become a serious threat to shared reality, democracy, and even health "Thousands of people were dying needlessly because they didn’t trust medical advice, or their government, or mainstream media” Reducing partisan animosity is doable, but tricky: www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....
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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
📜 Yerba mate (Ilex paraguariensis) genome provides new insights into convergent evolution of caffeine biosynthesis 🧑‍🔬 Federico A. Vignale, Andrea Hernandez Garcia, Todd J. Barkman, Adrian G. Turjanski, et al. 📔 @elife.bsky.social 🔗 elifesciences.org/articles/104... #️⃣ #PlantSciene #PlantMetabolism
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Yerba mate (Ilex paraguariensis) genome provides new insights into convergent evolution of caffeine biosynthesis
DNA sequencing of the yerba mate (Ilex paraguariensis) genome reveals convergent genomic changes, biochemical pathways, mutations, and substrate-binding orientations responsible for caffeine biosynthe...
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Di Jiang @dijiang319.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
This week @science.org Sarfatis, Moffitt et al. from @bostonchildrens.bsky.social @harvardmed.bsky.social @broadinstitute.org Highly multiplexed spatial transcriptomics in bacteria | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #microsky #microbial #microbiology #genomics #transcriptomic 🦠🧫
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Highly multiplexed spatial transcriptomics in bacteria
Single-cell decisions made in complex environments underlie many bacterial phenomena. Image-based transcriptomics approaches offer an avenue to study such behaviors, yet these approaches have been hin...
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Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦 @martinsteinegger.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
The Foldseek webserver for fast protein structure searches now features a Sankey tree taxonomy visualization and filter, allowing to subset hits by clades. Developed by my talented student @sunjaelee.bsky.social. Try it out! 🌐 search.foldseek.com
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