Rob Edwards

🔬 Meet Prof. @linsalrob: A creator of RAST and MG-RAST 🌟 🌐 From coral reefs to remote islands, he's pushed the limits of sequencing and bioinformatics. 🔬 Catch his talk at #ICBRAR2023: "PhageCraft: From Sewage to Synthesis." Get ready for a journey that goes beyond the lab!

Prophages are phages hidden in bacterial genomes, and they affect our health! We explored where they hang out in the human microbiome biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🤣 ) nature.com/articles/s4158… #microbiome #research #virome #microbiology #viruses #sciart @feargal/110309081590614781" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">genomic.social/@feargal/11030… (2/2)

RT @feargal@genomic.social My old lab from Cork, Ireland in Nature this week with "Structural atlas of a human gut crassvirus". Really great team, always so supportive, friendly and hard working, really well earned! Plus such nice pictures. (Damn maybe I should have stayed (1/2)

bacterianos, los fagos templados brindan ventajas de crecimiento únicas a sus anfitriones a través de la conversión lisogénica." @cientounero/110283109296888651" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mstdn.science/@cientounero/1… (2/2)

RT @cientounero@mstdn.science Artículo que guardo por interesante, para leer para cuando la vida de tiempo.. 😉 The Promise and Pitfalls of Prophages | bioRxiv biorxiv.org/content/10.110… "Mientras que los fagos virulentos esculpen el microbioma al matar a sus anfitriones (1/2)

RT @foaylward@genomic.social Scientists discover why sea urchins are dying off from US to the Caribbean Nice quotes from virome_girl on the recent study! theguardian.com/environment/20… And the Sci Adv paper: doi.org/10.1126/sciadv… #marine #ecology @foaylward/110253381939652025" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">genomic.social/@foaylward/110…

RT @Redrockcity@mstdn.science 🔬🔬Microbiology PIs looking for a great way to show your students you care? Nominate them for the TOP prize in prokaryotic molecular biology, the Nat L. Sternberg Award! Nominations due May 1, 2023 conferences.union.wisc.edu/phages/awards-… @Redrockcity/110237848558538909" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mstdn.science/@Redrockcity/1…

RT @wvschaik@mstdn.science Our manuscript 'Gauge your phage: benchmarking of bacteriophage identification tools in metagenomic sequencing data' has now been published in Microbiome. You can read it here microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…. @wvschaik/110235740161166258" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mstdn.science/@wvschaik/1102…

is on #figshare biorxiv.org/content/10.110… open.flinders.edu.au/projects/Proph… (2/2)

Phages... So many #phage and they are all #prophage integrated into a #bacteria #genome A few million prophages from > million bacterial genomes Are prophages good or bad for bacteria? The data shows they provide heaps of benefits The paper is in #biorxiv and the data (1/2)

RT @ARC_Tracker@aus.social #ARCschedule Apr23 v2: Updated with projected opening, closing & outcome dates for schemes through to end of next year (2024). (It's very possible there's errors here. Let me know if so!) @ARC_Tracker/110149290627021480" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">aus.social/@ARC_Tracker/1…

#science #research #microbiome #metagenomics nature.com/articles/s4156… @feargal/110218023192112453" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">genomic.social/@feargal/11021… (2/2)

RT @feargal@genomic.social The gut microbiota contributes to the pathogenesis of anorexia nervosa in humans and mice. New study at Nature Microbiology. Faecal metagenomics & serum metabolomics (77 cases, 70 controls) + FMT to GF mice to show casual relationship. (1/2)

What would it take to add a #mastadon toot box to the #biorxiv website where the bird site one is? can you add that to metrics? @richardsever@mas.to @biorxivpreprint@qoto.org

Not all proteins arise from consecutive codons. We developed a new tool - PRFect - to identify programmed ribosomal frameshifts. Designed, built, trained, and tested with #phage genomes, it also works on #bacteria and #eukaryotes too. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

@linsalrob (I have no expertise but) maybe one that relies on plasmid encoded genes to get in? Eg biorxiv.org/content/10.110… From @baym and Natalia QO , whose twitter is I can't find oddly

@linsalrob One idea: you may have a look at the tremendous EOP assays (S1 data) performed for the BASEL E.coli phage collection by @AHarms485 & colleagues @PLOSBiology journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

@linsalrob That depends a bit on your definition of host range. Just recognition / lysis or also plaque formation? Phages targeting the highly conserved NGR glycan of enterobacteria are quite broad or those targeting conjugative pili of broad host-range plasmids (even cross-genus for PRD1).