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Saarland Informatics Campus @saarland-informatics-campus.de · 25/09/2026

And that's a wrap on the #GermanConferenceonBioinformatics 2026! We were happy to gather the international bioinformatics community at SIC on the 40th anniversary of GCB and the 25th anniversary of the Center for Bioinformatics at @uni-saarland.de. See you next year at @unituebingen.bsky.social! 👋

Photo collage from GCB 2026 at Saarland Informatics Campus. The top row shows FaBi Dissertation Award winner Hufsah Ashraf speaking, a poster session, Stanford University’s Nima Aghaeepour giving a talk, and Fawaz Dabbaghie holding his Poster Award certificate. The center image shows participants during the PhD networking session, while the bottom images show a conference talk and the audience in a lecture hall.

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German Conference on Bioinformatics #GCB2026 @gcb-bioinformatics.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

🧬🖥️ Call for Posters! Join us in celebrating 40 years of the German Conference on #Bioinformatics (#GCB2026) 🎉 📍 Saarbrücken | 🗓 22–25 Sep 2026 Submit your research & shape the future of Bioinformatics! Deadline Poster: 6 Aug 2026 👉 gcb2026.de

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Igor Martayan @imartayan.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Congrats to @leoackermann.bsky.social on winning RECOMB's best poster award for his work on compressing pairwise distance matrices! Check it out here: lacker.gitlab.io/pdf/research...

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bioRxiv Bioinfo @biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Fast Set Operations for Compact k-mer Sets www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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arXiv cs.DS Data Structures and Algorithms @csds-bot.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Kamila Szewczyk, Sven Rahmann: Hecate: A Modular Genomic Compressor arxiv.org/abs/2603.15390 arxiv.org/pdf/2603.15390 arxiv.org/html/2603.15390

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Bede Constantinides @bede.im · 03/03/2026

Deacon can now run in the browser using WebAssembly. Sequence data never leaves your machine. It currently supports FASTA/Q filtering using indexes up to 1GB in size. Demo: bede.im/deacon

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albi-uds.bsky.social @albi-uds.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

At the start of January, Johanna, @rorak.bsky.social and Sven traveled to Vancouver where Johanna presented our paper "Smaller and More Flexible Cuckoo Filters"(epubs.siam.org/doi/abs/10.1...) at the ALENEX 2026. (1/4)

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German Conference on Bioinformatics #GCB2026 @gcb-bioinformatics.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

🧬🖥️ Call for Abstracts OPEN! Join us in celebrating 40 years of the German Conference on #Bioinformatics (#GCB2026) 🎉 📍 Saarbrücken | 🗓 22–25 Sep 2026 Submit your research & shape the future of Bioinformatics! Deadlines Workshops: 31 Mar 26 Talks: 3 May 26 Poster: 6 Aug 26 👉 GCB2026.DE

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Jens Zentgraf @rorak.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

We are excited that our paper "Cleanifier: Contamination removal from microbial sequences using spaced seeds of a human pangenome index" is now published at Bioinformatics (doi.org/10.1093/bioi...). You can find it at gitlab (gitlab.com/rahmannlab/c...) or install it via PyPI or Bioconda.

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Cleanifier: Contamination removal from microbial sequences using spaced seeds of a human pangenome index

AbstractMotivation. The first step when working with DNA data of human-derived microbiomes is to remove human contamination for two reasons. First, many co

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RECOMB Conference Series @recombconf.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

#RECOMB2026 will be in Thessaloniki, Greece on May 26-29, 2026. Satellites on May 24-25. Save the date! Το συνέδριο #RECOMB2026 θα πραγματοποιηθεί στη Θεσσαλονίκη, στις 26-29 Μαΐου 2026. Οι δορυφορικές εκδηλώσεις θα διεξαχθούν στις 24-25 Μαΐου 2026. Σημειώστε την ημερομηνία!

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Johannes Köster @johanneskoester.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Next year in march, the 2nd #Snakemake hackathon, this time at the #TUMunich in Germany, will take place. If you are interested in participating, follow the link on snakemake.github.io and check out the details!

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bioRxiv Bioinfo @biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Cleanifier: A fast and lightweight k-mer based tool to remove contamination in microbial sequence data www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Felix Wiegand @fxwiegand.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Excited to share that our preprint, Datavzrd: Rapid programming- and maintenance-free interactive visualization and communication of tabular data, is now up on bioRxiv! 🎉 #datavzrd

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bioRxiv Bioinfo @biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Datavzrd: Rapid programming- and maintenance-free interactive visualization and communication of tabular data www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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