Fungi play pivotal roles in terrestrial ecosystems as decomposers, pathogens and endophytes, yet their significance in marine environments is often understudied. Seagrasses, as globally distributed ma...

PacBio had a major shakeup early this month. First came a large round of layoffs, which caught several individuals who were very much the fa...

I wish to highlight an interesting new preprint from a group at Danish Technical University which explores the schmutz in PCR reactions, d...

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AbstractMotivation. Oxford Nanopore sequencing enables long-read analysis for diverse applications, but artefacts introduced by Nanopore barcoding are poor

A standalone Streamlit app that collects community priority weights over fourassembly-QC metrics ...

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La Jolla, California—April 29, 2026—The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) announced that J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., the Institute’s founder, board...

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In this Software Deep Dive episode, we talk with Dr. Bede Constantinides (University of Birmingham) about Deacon, a tool for removing host DNA reads from metagenomic datasets. We discuss why host read

Symbiotic bacteria can have exceedingly small genomes. This study finds that ancient bacterial symbionts of planthoppers have repeatedly evolved the smallest known genomes, losing most biosynthetic fu...

Bioactive microbial natural products remain the preeminent source of new lead compounds for drug development. Due to the increasingly high levels of strain and compound rediscovery from terrestrial en...

Abstract The crisis of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is escalating while the antibiotic pipeline remains stagnant. Our bibliometric analysis of eight decades of literature reveals a critical imbalanc...

This is the twelfth minor release (v1.12) providing more than 10 minor improvements and many bug fixes improving runtime stability, IO compatibility, and last but not least user experience. Compati...

Abstract. Here, we present the first complete, fully phased diploid genome of type strain Yarrowia lipolytica YB-423 (=ATCC 18942™), constructed using a co

Oxford Nanopore has a serious case of user community unrest, triggered by the announcement that the P2 Solo (aka P2s) will be phased out sta...

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