Michael Roach 🦠

@[email protected]
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Research Fellow (bioinformatics) at Flinders University; enthusiast brewer and certified beer judge; running stuff on your head node.
Bloghttps://bioinf.cc
GitHubhttps://github.com/beardymcjohnface
Flinders Accelerator for Microbiome Explorationhttps://fame.flinders.edu.au
Michael Roach 🦠Feb 27, 2024
JOSSFeb 27, 2024
Just published in JOSS: 'Koverage: Read-coverage analysis for massive (meta)genomics datasets' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.06235
Michael Roach 🦠Sep 26, 2023
Vijini MallawaarachchiSep 26, 2023

I'm very excited to share that our bacteriophage recovery tool, Phables has been accepted for publication in the OUP Bioinformatics journal.

Publication: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btad586
GitHub: https://github.com/Vini2/phables

A big thank you to everyone at FAME for supporting this work.
@BeardyMcJohnFace @npbhavya @griggo_grig @GB13Faithless @AbbeyHutton @Sassel1985 @linsalrob

#bioinformatics #metagenomics #bacteriophages #assembly #assemblygraph #graphtheory #flownetworks

Phables: from fragmented assemblies to high-quality bacteriophage genomes

AbstractMotivation. Microbial communities have a profound impact on both human health and various environments. Viruses infecting bacteria, known as bacteriopha

OUP Academic
Michael Roach 🦠Apr 5, 2023
Vijini MallawaarachchiApr 5, 2023

The preprint of Phables is up on biorxiv! Phables can resolve high-quality bacteriophage genomes from fragmented metagenome assemblies using assembly graphs.

Preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.04.535632v1
GitHub: https://github.com/Vini2/phables

@BeardyMcJohnFace @npbhavya @griggo_grig @GB13Faithless @AbbeyHutton @linsalrob

#bacteriophages #phages #metagenomics #bioinformatics #software

Michael Roach 🦠Mar 8, 2023
Nice work @npbhavya et al. on the preprint! https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.03.05.531146v1
Michael Roach 🦠Mar 8, 2023
bioRxivMar 6, 2023
Novel crAssphage isolates exhibit conserved gene order and purifying selection of the host specificity protein https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.03.05.531146v1?med=mas
Michael Roach 🦠Dec 18, 2022
New paper is out! Writing research software is hard, so why make it harder than it needs to be? https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010705 Thank you to all my amazing collaborators @[email protected] @bioinforad @vijinim @npbhavya @ctb @[email protected] @linsalrob #bioinformatics
Ten simple rules and a template for creating workflows-as-applications

Michael Roach 🦠Dec 9, 2022
Vijini MallawaarachchiDec 9, 2022
Getting ready for a phage-tastic Christmas with Rudolph the red-nosed phage-deer 🎄🤩
@linsalrob @BeardyMcJohnFace @npbhavya @griggo_grig @Sassel1985 @AbbeyHutton
Template credits go to Dr Siân V. Owen https://scholar.harvard.edu/sianowen/paper-bacteriophage-template
#phages #bacteria #microbes #Christmas
Paper bacteriophage template

Printable template for making paper bacteriophage models. Tip: using thick sturdy paper yields the crispist phage

Michael Roach 🦠Dec 5, 2022
It's an incredible honour to receive the @[email protected] and @[email protected] inaugural @[email protected] Outstanding Bioinformatics Software Developer Award for 2022. I'm especially #chuffed as like many binfies, Torsten was my inspiration for publishing my first bioinf pipeline (in Perl!). 1/3
Show threadMichael Roach 🦠Dec 5, 2022
I'm excited to see what the future holds for the ABACBS and ARDC awards, and I can only hope to one day inspire as many new binfies as Torsten has.
Show threadMichael Roach 🦠Dec 5, 2022
It was great to hear from @[email protected] on why the ARDC is supporting the ABACBS awards. Finding the time and money to develop and maintain bioinf software is hard, but good tools can be just as transformative as any other scientific breakthrough. 2/3