hackseq

We are excited to introduce the Toronto Bioinformatics Hackathon! This student-led event builds on hackseq's legacy and invites early-career scientists to join. Don't out miss out on networking opportunities and thousands in prizes! Visit hackbio.ca for more info.

Some mushrooms "bruise" blue when you handle them! They're fun too.🤯

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...y-ya sure, isn't that terrible?...

I swear I'm a biologist tho...

Not just microbiomes, all sequencing is highly biased. It's critical to capture more of Earth's genetic diversity while we still have it.

Also kind of cool, the nearest neighbour (u132628 infernalDad) is that dragonfly virus and it's found on two Copis (buttercup) plants.🐲🦋 Couldn't find the sequence on GenBank tho

😎 hackseq h4s just h1t it's 13igg3st mil3st0ne yet!!!11

Biology is weird, and you know Zombie Virus may not be all that technically wrong as an analogy. It just incorrectly gives off the vibes of causing Zombie-ism instead of being zombie-like. I'm partial to "virus fossil" myself, but that makes them see too "dead".

I made this as a grad student in the Mager Lab which focused on Endogenous Retroviruses.

On the RdRP Explorer page for a given SRA, you can "download RdRP" which is the micro-assembly for that library. I just have the single master file on my laptop and 'grep' for any SRA accession I want: lovelywater.s3.amazonaws.com…