Reposted by Jens Zentgrafalbi-uds.bsky.social @albi-uds.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Last week, our group as part of the Center for Bioinformatics Saar organized the German Conference on Bioinformatics in Saarbrücken with around 300 participants. 152
Reposted by Jens ZentgrafSaarland Informatics Campus @saarland-informatics-campus.de · 25/09/2026And 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! 👋 033
Reposted by Jens ZentgrafGerman 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 016
Reposted by Jens ZentgrafIgor Martayan @imartayan.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Congrats 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...lacker.gitlab.io 0165
Reposted by Jens ZentgrafbioRxiv Bioinfo @biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Fast Set Operations for Compact k-mer Sets www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 01510
Reposted by Jens ZentgrafarXiv cs.DS Data Structures and Algorithms @csds-bot.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Kamila Szewczyk, Sven Rahmann: Hecate: A Modular Genomic Compressor arxiv.org/abs/2603.15390 arxiv.org/pdf/2603.15390 arxiv.org/html/2603.15390 054
Reposted by Jens ZentgrafBede Constantinides @bede.im · 03/03/2026Deacon 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 13010
Reposted by Jens Zentgrafalbi-uds.bsky.social @albi-uds.bsky.social · 03/02/2026At 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) 272
Reposted by Jens ZentgrafGerman 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 166
Jens Zentgraf @rorak.bsky.social · 27/11/2025Cleanifier is a fast and memory-frugal tool to remove host contamination from microbial sequence data. We build a pangenome gapped k-mer index using a probabilistic Cuckoo filter ( doi.org/10.48550/arX..., @Alenex 2026) for low memory requirements and fast queries. 020
Jens Zentgraf @rorak.bsky.social · 27/11/2025We 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.doi.orgCleanifier: Contamination removal from microbial sequences using spaced seeds of a human pangenome indexAbstractMotivation. The first step when working with DNA data of human-derived microbiomes is to remove human contamination for two reasons. First, many co 1129
Reposted by Jens ZentgrafRECOMB 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! 02313
Reposted by Jens ZentgrafJohannes Köster @johanneskoester.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Next 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!snakemake.github.ioSnakemake 053
Reposted by Jens ZentgrafbioRxiv Bioinfo @biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Cleanifier: A fast and lightweight k-mer based tool to remove contamination in microbial sequence data www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202… 053
Reposted by Jens ZentgrafFelix Wiegand @fxwiegand.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Excited to share that our preprint, Datavzrd: Rapid programming- and maintenance-free interactive visualization and communication of tabular data, is now up on bioRxiv! 🎉 #datavzrd 001
Reposted by Jens ZentgrafbioRxiv Bioinfo @biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Datavzrd: Rapid programming- and maintenance-free interactive visualization and communication of tabular data www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202… 022
