#Phages

As promised, a thread on our [@StanleyHoBio @milja001] preprint: 'Comprehensive benchmarking of tools to identify phages in metagenomic shotgun sequencing data' https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.12.438782v1 https://twi
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Online today in #MGen : How we can use transcriptomic data to reveal new temperate phage biology https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/mgen/10.1099/mgen.0.000330 This started with a simple idea and became a nice proof of
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What happens to a paper submitted to a top journal?Among a set of manuscripts sent out for review by Cell in 2018:-33% were published in Cell-26% were published in another
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Wow, it's finally out!It took so long but here is my work on gut #phages. Inspired by @implosian I'm going to try this paper thread thing below. Please read it
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I'm very excited to finally share the preprint for a project I've been working on for >4 years! Here's a thread with some of the highlights:https://twitter.com/biorxiv_micrbio/status/1282926532848214021 In a previous study
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It's Friday evening, I've my red wine, and we just got a new pre-print out, which means it's thread time \o/ Disclaimer: this thread doesn't contain any Covid-19 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.01.020958v1 @jgi
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Stoked to report in @nature the discovery of prokaryotic viperins, which naturally produce diverse anti-viral molecules ! After providing us with antibiotics, bacteria might become sources of novel anti-viral drugs.
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Happy to share our new preprint about how we solved the mystery of some of the coolest bacterial elements:Retrons function as anti-phage defense systems!https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.06.21.156273v1See thread below by the 3 of
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Homes have walls. Walls need art. All the coolest people have Walls with Science Art.Let’s go shopping (a thread)https://www.microbeartwalk.com #MicrobeArtWalk #ASMCUE #ASMCUE2020 For the master bedroom:Bacterophage Painting by @art
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1) "The Initiators of the Corona Crisis Have Been Clearly Identified - Virologists - who claim the existence of disease-causing viruses are committing scientific fraud and must be be prosecuted"Translation
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Masks Masquerading as ScienceTM.I spent a good part of my career engineering emulsion PCR and Nebulization equipment for DNA and RNA shearing. I have a very different view on this
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