Vijini Mallawaarachchi

39 Followers
35 Following
26 Posts
Research Associate at Flinders University | Bioinformatician exploring bacteria, phages and fungi in metagenomes ๐Ÿงฌ๐Ÿฆ  | Blogging at http://vijini.medium.com
GITHUBgithub.com/Vini2
agtools: a software framework to manipulate assembly graphs https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.14.676178v1?med=mas

๐Ÿงฌ Check out agtools, an open-source Python framework for analysing & manipulating assembly graphs.

๐Ÿ”— GitHub: https://github.com/Vini2/agtools
๐Ÿ“œ Preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.14.676178v1

๐Ÿ™ Thanks to my amazing co-authors @rrwick @GB13Faithless @griggo_grig @npbhavya @linsalrob

#Bioinformatics #genomics #assembly #assemblygraphs #software

GitHub - Vini2/agtools: A Software Framework to Manipulate Assembly Graphs

A Software Framework to Manipulate Assembly Graphs - Vini2/agtools

GitHub

๐Ÿš€ I just released agtools โ€“ a Python API + CLI for working with assembly graphs!

โš™๏ธ Convert, filter, clean, visualise & more.
๐Ÿ“ฆ Install with pip or conda
๐Ÿ’ป Code: https://github.com/Vini2/agtools
๐Ÿ“– Docs: https://agtools.readthedocs.io/

โญ Feedback, contributions, and stars are welcome!

#bioinformatics #python #genomics #assemblygraphs #opensource

GitHub - Vini2/agtools: A Software Framework to Manipulate Assembly Graphs

A Software Framework to Manipulate Assembly Graphs - Vini2/agtools

GitHub
๐Ÿ“ข Excited to announce that Phables now supports long-read assemblies!
โ€ข
โญ๏ธ Check out the new release: https://github.com/Vini2/phables/releases/tag/v1.3.0
โ€ข
๐Ÿงฌ Feel free to test out Phables on your long-read assemblies of metagenomes, viromes or even isolates. ๐Ÿฆ ๐Ÿงซ
โ€ข
#Phages #Bacteriophages #Phables #Metagenomics #Bioinformatics #Software
Release phables 1.3.0 ยท Vini2/phables

What's Changed Phables can now resolve phage genomes from long-read assemblies. You can run Phables on long-read assemblies of phage isolate as well. Full Changelog: v1.2.2...v1.3.0 Please report...

GitHub

Excited to share that we were awarded a 2024 National Computational Merit Allocation Scheme (NCMAS) supercomputing grant. ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿคฉ
@linsalrob @BeardyMcJohnFace @npbhavya @griggo_grig

https://my.nci.org.au/mancini/ncmas/2024/outcomes

#Bioinformatics #bacteriophages #HPC #software

Outcomes | NCMAS 2024

Glad to see GraphBin contributing to discover new core genera in fermented red pepper sauce metagenomes.

#bioinformatics #metagenomics #binning #assemblygraphs

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221242922301074X

It was my great pleasure to talk about Phables at ABACBS 2023. Thanks for all the awesome feedback and chats! Also a big thank you to @abacbs for the opportunity and everyone from the FAME lab.
#abacbs2023 #bioinformatics

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
@griggo_grig from presenting Phynteny at APG Awards Fest. ๐Ÿงฌ๐Ÿฆ ๐Ÿ”ฌ๐ŸŒŸ You can predict the functions of unknown phage genes using an LSTM model trained with phage synteny.
โ€ข
Check out Phynteny at https://github.com/susiegriggo/Phynteny
โ€ข
#phages #bacteriophages #synteny #APGAwardsFest2023
GitHub - susiegriggo/Phynteny: Predict the function of phage hypothetical proteins using an LSTM model trained with Phage Synteny

Predict the function of phage hypothetical proteins using an LSTM model trained with Phage Synteny - GitHub - susiegriggo/Phynteny: Predict the function of phage hypothetical proteins using an LSTM...

GitHub
Excited to announce that the first stable release of Phables is now up on bioconda and PyPI. ๐Ÿคฉ๐Ÿงฌ If you study phages in metagenomes give it a try. ๐Ÿ˜„
โ€ข
Bioconda: https://anaconda.org/bioconda/phables
PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/phables/
โ€ข
#Bioinformatics #metagenomics #phage #phage #bacteriophage
Phables :: Anaconda.org