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Our tool for rapid functional annotation for phages, viruses, bacteria, archaea, eukaryotes, and communities is finally published.
Supports a variety of databases: KEGG/KO, FOAM, COG, PHROG, VOG, pVOG, CAZy, EC.
Updates soon for a variety of other dbs
academic.oup.com/bioinformat…
💥 You asked. RAW Lab delivered.
DYNAMITE-ORFs v1.1.0 🧬
✅ Prodigal gap controls
✅ Gene-calling fixes
⚡ E. coli auto mode: 20.6 → 9.2s in our benchmark
Messy genomes. Meet DYNAMITE.
crates.io/crates/dynamite-or…
#Bioinformatics #Rust
🚨 5 BIOINFORMATICS TOOLS. 3 NEW QC ENGINES. 1 RUST BINARY. 🦀🔥
Introducing 🛡️ SENTINEL-X!
🧬 CheckV + CheckM2 + BUSCO + EukCC + viralVerify
⚡ No Python runtime!
🔬 Viral, bacterial & eukaryotic QC
ONE TOOL. EVERY DOMAIN OF LIFE.
🚀 crates.io/crates/sentinel-x
#RustLang
🚨 What if the future of carbon capture is 3.5 BILLION YEARS OLD?
🦠 Microbialites turn carbon into STONE.
🪨 Nature's engineers could inspire NET-ZERO building materials.
🌍 We're searching for life on Mars while overlooking Earth's oldest ecosystems.
🔬 microbialite.org
Richard Allen White III, PhD retweeted
10 courses for my dream bioinformatics curriculum:
1. Unix Commands with Greg Wilson youtube.com/watch?v=U3iNcBty…
2. statistics and R with Rafael Irizarry rafalab.dfci.harvard.edu/pag…
🧙♂️ I built Merlin.
A pure-Rust RNA gene finder that detects tRNA, tmRNA & rRNAs.
🦀 No C
⚡ Parallel
🔮 Real HMMER Plan7
📦 No external tools or databases
Fast. Parallel. Honest. Modern RNA gene finding.
Crates
crates.io/crates/merlin-rna
BLAST was a workaround.
Smith–Waterman was “too slow.”
SWORD broke that assumption.
SABER deletes it.
🦀 Rust
🧬 Exact alignment
⚡ Fast
No heuristics.
Just exact biology.
github.com/raw-lab/saber
#Bioinformatics #Rust
💥 I built DYNAMITE.
7 gene-calling engines.
Phages, viruses, bacteria, archaea, eukaryotes.
One command. Pure Rust.
No Python. No dependencies circus.
Crates
crates.io/crates/dynamite-or…
GitHub
github.com/raw-lab/dynamite/
🧬 Genome in. Genes out.
#Bioinformatics #Rust #Genomics
🌊🦠 Viruses are everywhere. Counting them shouldn’t be the bottleneck.
Our new 96-well, hands-free flow cytometry workflow counts 60 aquatic samples in 2.25 h.
Published at AEM today
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…
More samples. More discovery.
#Virology #Microbiology #FlowCytometry
BLAST won because Smith–Waterman was too slow.
SWORD showed it can be fast.
SABER pushes it further:
🦀 Rust
🧬 Exact alignment
⚡ Fast
💾 Low memory
Not heuristics.
Exact at scale.
github.com/raw-lab/saber
#Bioinformatics #Rust
Python got bioinformatics started.
Rust will scale it. 🦀
Today we released rustyomestats, our first Rust crate for genome assembly statistics.
Fast. Memory safe. Built for massive genomic datasets.
Crates: crates.io/crates/rustyomesta…
Rust is the way.
Most high-performance bioinformatics software written 10 years from now will be in Rust. 🦀
Today we released rustyomestats — our first Rust crate
⚡ Genome size
🧬 GC content
📊 N50/L50/U50
🔬 Codon density
🚀 FASTA parsing
Link: github.com/raw-lab/rustyomes…
Rust is the way.
Richard Allen White III, PhD retweeted
We’re pleased to announce that Chile will host the XIII International Conference on Hantaviruses #ICH2026 🇨🇱
📍 Puerto Varas, Chile
📅 ICH2026: Nov 2–4, 2026
➕ Andes virus Workshop: Nov 5
🔗 hantavirussociety.org
Join global hantavirus research, collaboration & innovation 🌎
