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Mix thousands of puzzle pieces & try to put them together with no picture—that’s metagenome assembly. Marcus Fedarko returns to @UofMaryland & @umiacs to work with Mihai Pop, developing tools that untangle microbial genomes in huge DNA datasets. Read more: go.umd.edu/275f

Can Firtina (@FirtinaC), the newest member @CBCB_UMD and an affiliate faculty member @umiacs, is advancing efficient genomic data analysis by developing algorithmic and hardware-based solutions to make the process faster and more accessible. Read more: go.umd.edu/26gk

Najib El-Sayed is the next speaker at Science on Tap, a monthly lecture series hosted by @UMDscience at @LedoPizza in College Park. He will discuss how his lab is leveraging RNA technologies & machine learning to study host-pathogen interactions. Register: go.umd.edu/22q4

RECOMB 2026 website is up! RECOMB will be in Greece :). recomb.org/recomb2026/ --- no paper deadline yet though...

The @UofMaryland's Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CBCB) brings together researchers from many disciplines who use computational methods to gain a better understanding of how life works. Check out the center's brand new website: cbcb.umd.edu

UMIACS postdoc Kyle Brumfield is working with Distinguished @UofMaryland Professor Rita Colwell to study how environmental factors like climate can impact waterborne pathogens, particularly Vibrio bacteria. Learn more: umiacs.umd.edu/news-events/ne…

The conference on Wonderful Algorithms for Bioinformatics (#WABI2025) brought together nearly 70 researchers for a series of talks and networking events focused on algorithms and machine learning tools used to address challenges in molecular biology. Attendees came from local institutions like @NIH, and from as far as @UTokyo_News_en. The @UofMaryland's Robert Patro (@nomad421) was one of the program committee co-chairs, and Mihai Pop was the local chair. The event received technical and administrative support from @umiacs .

More than 65 researchers are @UofMaryland this week for the international Wonderful Algorithms for Bioinformatics conference (#WABI2025), learning about the latest research in algorithmic work, bioinformatics, computational biology and systems biology. go.umd.edu/217e

With @giulio_pibiri and @nomad421, we are about to release Fulgor v4.0.0, which is much faster to build and query, without affecting its memory efficiency. You can find all the information in our #WABI2025 paper (bit.ly/3T6TWqw). 🧵 (1/7)

I’m truly grateful to be serving as the program chair (along with Prof. Broňa Brejová) of #WABI25 at @umiacs / @umdcs / @UofMaryland , and we are very lucky to have Mihai Pop as the local chair. Day 1 was amazing, and day 2 looks to be just as great! wabiconf.github.io/2025/

Christina Boucher from @UF starts Day 2 of #WABI2025 with her keynote talk on "Recursive Parsing and Grammar Compression in the Era of Pangenomics." Learn more about Dr. Boucher’s work here: christinaboucher.com

Ben Langmead, a computer scientist @JohnsHopkins, kicks off #WABI2025 with one of the scheduled keynote addresses. His talk explores pangenome graphs—network structures that compress multiple genomes—and new methods for their indexing and representation. go.umd.edu/217e

Erin Molloy (@erinkmolloy) has won an @NSF CAREER award to study how species evolved—using special "copy-and-paste" DNA called retrotransposons. She’s building new tools to help scientists better understand the history written in our genes. Read more: go.umd.edu/20rx

This week @UofMaryland hosts #WABI2025, bringing 65 researchers from around the world to the Iribe Center to explore algorithms, machine learning and computational tools advancing genomics and systems biology. Read more: go.umd.edu/217e

🖥️🧬 WABI '25 will not only have excellent keynotes, but an exciting program of papers. The titles and abstracts of all accepted WABI '25 papers are now available on the conference website (wabiconf.github.io/2025/talks/). I'm looking forward to seeing these talks!

Christina Boucher, an associate professor of computer and information science and engineering @UF, will give the talk "Recursive Parsing and Grammar Compression in the Era of Pangenomics" as the second keynote at #WABI2025. wabiconf.github.io/2025/talks/tal…

The keynote speakers for the 2025 Wonderful Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI) conference have been announced! Ben Langmead, an associate professor of computer science @JohnsHopkins, will present "We Are What We Index; A Primer for the Wheeler Graph Era." wabiconf.github.io/2025/talks/tal…

We're thrilled to announce that one of our keynote speakers at #WABI2025 will be the inimitable Ben Langmead! wabiconf.github.io/2025/talks/tal…. Ben's keynote is titled "We are what we index; a primer for the Wheeler Graph era", and it's sure to be a whirlwind tour of full-text indexing!

The Wonderful Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI) conference 2025 will be held @UofMaryland, College Park in August. WABI brings together researchers working on algorithmic aspects of computational biology. Learn more: wabiconf.github.io/2025/ Register: app.certain.com/profile/form/i…

Harikesh Kailad (left) and Luiz Mata Lopez (right) have been named #GoldwaterScholars. Kailad works with Ian Miers (@secparam) and Dana Dachman-Soled in @CollegeParkMC2, while Mata Lopez collaborates with Erin Molloy (@erinkmolloy) in @CBCB_UMD. Read more: go.umd.edu/1y2r