Reposted by romain derelleOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is so very funny youtu.be/SHUvSffmLIQ?...youtu.beMost TV is Just This NowYouTube video by Michael Spicer 55961305
romain derelle @rom12relle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Happy to share that our paper describing kamino, a new variant-calling tool, has been accepted for publication in MBE @molbioevol.bsky.social. Big thanks to @johnlees.bacpop.org and Leonid Chindelevitch. academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...academic.oup.comKamino: fast proteome-wide variant calling for amino acid phylogenomicsAbstract. Amino acid-based phylogenetics usually relies on first clustering and aligning orthologous proteins. This approach is powerful but computationall 022
Reposted by romain derelleKristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Controversial, not so controversial, take - the dangers posed by AI are real, current, and well-documented. Those do not include human extinction within a decade, nor do they include AI-manufactured-printed-out-in-the-lab bioweapons, yet, those are the ones we chose to focus on. Good lord. 411018
Reposted by romain derelleJohn Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 03/09/2026I hereby declare the "learn to code" era officially dead: Big declines in the number of people studying computer science in the last year or two 📉 Chart from this week’s edition of our newsletter on AI and the labour market www.ft.com/content/9183... 68946236
Reposted by romain derelleJoshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 07/09/2026I found the best book: a 1963 dictionary of Italian hand gestures 842683492
romain derelle @rom12relle.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I revised our kamino manuscript to introduce v2 and add more analyses: comparisons with OrthoFinder, direct phylogenetic validation using MTBC lineages and GTDB taxa, and a mammalian analysis. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.orgkamino: fast proteome-wide variant calling for amino acid phylogenomicsAmino acid-based phylogenetics usually relies on first clustering and aligning orthologous proteins. This approach is powerful but computationally demanding. Here, we present kamino, a reference- and ... 000
Reposted by romain derelleZeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 02/09/2026August 2026 was the warmest August on record in the the Copernicus/ECMWF ERA5 dataset, at 1.65C above preindustrial levels. This beat the prior record set in August 2024 by a fairly wide margin (~0.14C). 417186
Reposted by romain derelleFlower Power @flowerpowaaa.eurosky.social · 29/08/2026Story of my life (mais avec des BD) 0102
romain derelle @rom12relle.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Our paper describing the CABBAGE database (AMR genotype–phenotype database) is now published in NAR: academic.oup.com/nar/article/...academic.oup.comA comprehensive AMR genotype–phenotype database (CABBAGE)Abstract. Addressing the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) requires the development of large-scale resources that link bacterial genomic dat 020
romain derelle @rom12relle.bsky.social · 24/06/2026I released a new version of kamino (v2) which is much more efficient: faster and using less memory. Try it out — it’s quite fun exploring phylogenetic relationships in seconds 🙂 github.com/rderelle/kam...github.comRelease v2.0.0 · rderelle/kaminoSame idea, no graph — welcome to v2. This version uses the k-mer occupancies (i.e. the number of samples in which k-mers are present) estimated during the 1st pass over the proteome files to infer ... 010
Reposted by romain derelleConor (Conchúr) Meehan @conmeehan.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Coming close to the abstract deadline (July 1st) for our conference on Sept 8th at Nottingham Trent University! If you work on phage, microbiomes relating to pathogens, antibiotic alternatives or anything related, submit an abstract. Please spread the word! microbiologysociety.org/event/biotic...microbiologysociety.orgBiotic Control of Bacteria 022
Reposted by romain derellePierre Peterlongo @pierrepeterlongo.bsky.social · 03/06/2026🌎 🧬 🖥️ logan-search.org the tool to query all SRA sequences (Dec 2023 snapshot) — just got major updates. Here's what's new. 🧵 1/12 13626
romain derelle @rom12relle.bsky.social · 29/05/2026I’ve seen “amid an ongoing ceasefire” used to describe attacks and deaths far too many times. At some point, it stops being a ceasefire. 000
Reposted by romain derellebioRxiv Bioinfo @biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social · 25/05/2026kamino: proteome-wide variant calling for amino acid phylogenomics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 011
Reposted by romain derelleReese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 21/05/2026@johanduchene.bsky.social @sholtodavid.bsky.social Spent the last hour looking, found ten more apparently manipulated Western blots in Thermo Fisher's antibody verification data (across eight different catalogued products). Thread below. www.thermofisher.com/antibody/pro... 1517388
Reposted by romain derelleAlejandro Montenegro @aemonten.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Would I have called it reverse translation? No. Do I think it is? Also no. Is it cool? Heck yes. www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comSingle-molecule peptide sequencing through reverse translation of peptides into DNA - Nature BiotechnologyPeptides are sequenced by converting each amino acid into amplifiable DNA barcodes. 24114
romain derelle @rom12relle.bsky.social · 19/03/2026an excellent article about the war in Iran.economist.comAmerica’s friends must help extricate it from an unlawful warBadr Albusaidi argues that America and Iran's national interests lie in ending hostilities and resuming nuclear negotiations through regional dialogue. 000
romain derelle @rom12relle.bsky.social · 17/03/2026The rise of tabular foundation models open.substack.com/pub/mindfulm...open.substack.comThe rise of tabular foundation modelsHow Prior-Data Fitted Networks might change tabular ML 002
romain derelle @rom12relle.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Happy to share kamino, a Rust tool that builds amino-acid alignments in a reference/alignment-free way from a set of proteomes for phylogenomic analyses. Well suited for datasets with moderate evolutionary divergence (eukaryotes and prokaryotes). #phylogenomicsgithub.comGitHub - rderelle/kamino: Build phylogenomic datasets in seconds.Build phylogenomic datasets in seconds. Contribute to rderelle/kamino development by creating an account on GitHub. 020
Reposted by romain derellePapa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken @papawoof.bsky.social · 20/01/2026 125657
romain derelle @rom12relle.bsky.social · 17/01/2026Love the certificate @academic.oup.com, but a proper compensation for reviewers would be even better. ;) 000
romain derelle @rom12relle.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Birmingham (UK), January, 11 pm. Shouldn’t the sky be darker than this? 000
Reposted by romain derelleJohn Lees @johnlees.bacpop.org · 25/11/2025Nice to see some of our tools getting used in public health (in this case PopPIPE, which is downstream subclustering/transmission tool to be run on PopPUNK data) 0182
romain derelle @rom12relle.bsky.social · 22/11/2025Only November and already humming We Three Kings all the time. 010
Reposted by romain derelleEMBL-EBI @ebi.embl.org · 18/11/2025Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing health threat, making infections harder to treat and complicating routine medical care. EMBL-EBI’s new AMR portal brings together laboratory resistance data and bacterial genomes in one open platform. #WAAW2025 #ActOnAMR www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/t... 🧬💻ebi.ac.ukA new gateway to global antimicrobial resistance dataNew online portal connects bacterial genomes with experimental resistance data to support antimicrobial resistance research. 13618