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APC Microbiome Ireland @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

A clearer way to describe microbial habitats helps researchers compare #microbiome data. A new paper in #𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 introduces microntology: 148 terms and curated annotations for 305,626 #metagenomic samples. @tsbschm.bsky.social @embl.org @vishnuprasoodanan.bsky.social 📰 buff.ly/FD1SYYJ

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APC Microbiome Ireland @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Most microbial diversity is still missing from genome catalogues. A new paper in @natmicrobiol.nature.com analysed 92,187 metagenomes and found that most discoverable bacterial and archaeal lineages sit in unbinned contigs. 📰 buff.ly/Q5XREM7 #Microbiome #Metagenomics @vishnuprasoodanan.bsky.social

The ongoing census of microbial life is hampered by disparate sampling across Earth’s habitats, challenges in isolating uncultivated organisms, limited resolution in taxonomic marker gene amplicons and incomplete recovery of metagenome-assembled genomes. Here we quantify discoverable Bacterial and Archaeal diversity in a comprehensive, curated cross-habitat dataset of 92,187 publicly available metagenomes.

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Vishnu Prasoodanan, PhD @vishnuprasoodanan.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Happy and grateful to have contributed to this work. Excited to share a new publication from the Sebastian Group at APC Microbiome Ireland. Many thanks to @tsbschm.bsky.social for the guidance and continued support. Congratulations to all co-authors

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Michael Kuhn @biocs.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

We hope many of you will find it useful, and will continue to add data. Here's the preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... - hopefully coming soon to a NAR Database Issue near you 😅 Thanks to everyone in the @borklab.bsky.social @embl.org who contributed to this! 7/7

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Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples

Metagenomic sequencing enables the in-depth study of microbes and their functions in humans, animals and the environment. While sequencing data is deposited in public databases, the associated context...

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Vishnu Prasoodanan, PhD @vishnuprasoodanan.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

🚀 Excited to be part of this study! 🧪 Our research shows that a milk-derived peptide✨ can boost intestinal mucus function even with low fiber intake 🌾⬇️ — opening the door to a potential new prebiotic 🌱 for supporting gut health 💪🩺.

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Vishnu Prasoodanan, PhD @vishnuprasoodanan.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Our latest work is now online! Explored how obesogenic diets, obesity, and key experimental factors (mouse vendor, sex, microbiota) influence intestinal antimicrobial peptide (AMP) expression

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Vishnu Prasoodanan, PhD @vishnuprasoodanan.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

New Preprint Alert! 🌍🧬 We’re thrilled to share our latest study tackling one of the biggest question.. "How many prokaryotic species, genera, and deeper lineages actually exist on Earth?"

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Vishnu Prasoodanan, PhD @vishnuprasoodanan.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Had a wonderful opportunity to attend the Infection Biology Across Scales workshop at Umeå University! The event, organized by EMBL, SciLifeLab, and MIMS, brought together researchers to explore cutting-edge advancements in microbiome research, multi-omics, mucus biology, antimicrobial resistance.

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