Been working on a browser version of BRIG. No install. Interactive. Looking for beta testers; message me if you're interested.

BRIG Is a visualisation tool that draws circular genome comparison plots. The user provides a reference genome and a set of query genomes which are aligned using BLAST. Genomes are bacteria sized (< 20Mbp). Colour gradient shows alignment identity. Users can also provide tables of coordinates for their own annotations on the plot.

I'm talking tomorrow at the festival of genomics and biodata in London.

https://festivalofgenomics.com/london/

If y'all around, would be great to meet up.

If you find me, you get a sticker.

Folks been asking for a searchable catalogue for microbinfie podcast. With a 147 episodes, and 78+ guests its getting hard to find episodes of your interest.

anyway, i wrote a catalogue

https://www.happykhan.com/microbinfie

see all our lovely guests at https://www.happykhan.com/microbinfie/guests

Come see my poster at #IMMEM XIV Poster 151.

🔬 QualiBact – provides robust, data-driven QC thresholds for 304 bacterial species, built from >2.4M assemblies (AllTheBacteria + RefSeq).
⚙️ SpecCheck – an open-source command-line tool that applies these standards using existing outputs (QUAST, CheckM, ARIBA, Sylph) to generate clean, reproducible QC reports.

https://happykhan.github.io/qualibact/species/

https://github.com/happykhan/speccheck

If you're at #IMMEM XIV . please come by and see "my" poster on vaccines.watch

Otherwise please read the preprint.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.13.659488v1