| github | https://github.com/hyphaltip |
| github lab | https://github.com/stajichlab |
| lab website | https://lab.stajich.org |
Here's a #BioPerl blast from the past @hyphaltip - https://github.com/OBF/wp-content/blob/gh-pages/uploads/2006/01/bioperl_graffiti.jpg
(Spotted while working with @gedankenstuecke et al on the trial @OpenBio website migration from WordPress to Hugo on GitHub Pages)
From my collaborator, who has front row seats to the gutting of a university:
https://twitter.com/imperfectfunguy/status/1702757943681192227?s=46
TGIF? Not quite here at @WestVirginiaU where our BOG just voted to eliminate 143 faculty positions & 28 academic programs incl. ~20 positions across @wvudavis & 9/21 (43%) of faculty from the Div. of Plant & Soil Sciences where I am housed. I’m gutted & so is @WVU_PSS. #WVU
Counting dots or counting reads? Complementary approaches to estimate virus-to-microbe ratios
Roux, S., Brum, J.R.
ISME J (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-023-01468-z
A new high resolution microbial time #tree calibrated using the Great Oxidation Event (GOE) ~2.33 billion years ago highlights the evolution of aerobic lifestyles in #bacteria. Most bacteria were ancestrally anaerobic (Bacillota/Firmicutes are the oldest) and the transition to an aerobic lifestyle was initiated by Cyanobacteria, which seeded #oxygen production and consumption capabilities to the broader bacterial tree over hundreds of millions of years.
@ottiswimmers @marshomics we actually published a calibrated tree of life using similar approaches recently
https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/88268v1
We received some pushback for using the GOE for calibration (all reviews and responses are public). It will be interesting to see how that plays out here.
The renewal of #VEuPathDB & #FungiDB contract is in preparation. The success is likely to depend on strong support from users worldwide.
Consider signing the support letter by Deb Bell-Pederson & the Fungal Genetics Policy Committee:
https://tinyurl.com/support4FungiDB
Responses must be received by 8 Aug 2023.
N.b. the team asks for signatures onky from lab heads. VEuPathDB users may wish to add their name to other community letters:
https://sites.google.com/view/VEuPathDB
Peter Cock
bioRxiv
Ben de Bivort
Mike Blazanin
James Marsh
Frank Aylward
Naupaka Zimmerman