Announcing taxburst, an update of the Krona software for taxonomy exploration
<p>Announcing taxburst for metagenome taxonomy!</p>...
Hunting collisions with ntHash
<div> <nav id="TableOfContents"> <ul> <li><a href="https://bacpop.org/blog/index.xml#a-quick-introduction">A quick introduction</a></li> <li><a href="https://bacpop.org/blog/index.xml#the-ultravio...
A recap of virtual cell releases circa June 2025
In October 2024, I twote that “something is deeply wrong” with what we now call virtual cell models. A lot has happened since then: modelers are advancing new architectures and mining new sources of i...
The Future of At-Home Oncology Testing: Tiny Drops, Big Insights?
<p>The journey for an oncology patient often involves a relentless cycle of clinic visits, treatments, and crucially to the work I am involved with, blood draws for diagnosis, monitoring and MRD. This...
2025 Molecular Ecology Prize goes to Rosemary Gillespie, for harnessing molecular phylogenetics to understand community assembly and ecology
The Molecular Ecology Prize Committee has announced the 2025 recipient of the award, which recognizes an outstanding scientist who has made significant contributions to the still-young field of molecu...
What have you done to your keyboard?! Hands Down Promethium on a MacBook
<p>There were a few stickers on the lid, but <i>why</i> does my laptop look like this now? In short, I'm learning to touchtype a non-qwerty layout.</p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cell...
2025 Harry Smith Prize awarded to Óscar Romero-Báez for landscape genomics work that “sets a new standard”
The 2025 Harry Smith Prize, which recognizes the best paper published in Molecular Ecology or Molecular Ecology Resources in the previous year by an early career scholar, has been awarded to Óscar Rom...
Linear Regression Made Simple (and Sketchy!)
<p>Hi everyone! How are you doing? Today the sun is shining, and after some gym time and work, I finally found a moment to write a long article I’ve been wanting to share on my blog. You know, Andrew ...
Short RNA-seq read alignment with minimap2
<p><strong><em>TL;DR:</em></strong> <em>the new preset <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">splice:sr</code> in minimap2 can align short RNA-seq reads. It is similar to STAR in resource ...
Dive into pre-transcriptional regulation analysis
<p>Hello. How are you? I'm a little sad. These days I had an idea of applying ML models in bioinformatic field. The idea is good but moving from idea to practical application is always complex and oft...