Robyn Wright

Is there a one-size-fits all best taxonomic classifier for metagenomes? Read about it in our paper, out now in @MicrobioSoc #MGen! bit.ly/3SLJqDU And scroll on for a short audio or video summary of our key findings! @BetaScience @ICG_Dalhousie

PICRUSt2-SC: an update to the reference database used for functional prediction within PICRUSt2 academic.oup.com/bioinformatics…

The new database is included from v2.6.0 of PICRUSt2, and if you use it we’d love to hear your feedback on it!

We’ve also expanded the number of EC number and KO annotations included by about 1.3-fold. I’ll add some directions on how users can add a gene of interest using HMMs soon, too.

I’m not sure how many people still use this app, but I’m pleased to share our new preprint! @BetaScience biorxiv.org/content/10.110… I started thinking about how we could make the PICRUSt2 database easy to update and add new functions to about five years ago now…

I am looking for graduate students interested in investigating bacterial genome evolution, esp. pangenomes and intergenic regions, and the relative importance of genetic drift! buff.ly/3UPVcQ9

Good start to 2025! We need to work towards improving plastic degradation in marine environments. Lack of functional polyester-biodegrading potential in marine versus t... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Christmas came early for the IMR.bio! This should replace our two old MiSeqs and provide higher quality reads (for the full 2x300bp) and double our average number of reads per sample for the same price. Thanks to Andre Comeau, IMR Manager, for the photo op.

Robyn Wright @RobynJWright, Dalhousie University on Reducing false-positive taxa in metagenomes by coverage validation of reference genomes #ISME19

@monaparizadeh @ISME_microbes Oh great, hopefully I’ll see you soon! 😊

@RobynJWright @ISME_microbes Yayy! I am here, too. Let's catch up

Excited to have finally made it to an @ISME_microbes meeting #ISME19! I have a poster on the oral Microbiome of children this morning (PS1.02.029) and a short talk on checking the coverage of taxa identified in metagenomic reads tomorrow afternoon (AS11).

Excited to be heading to Cape Town tomorrow morning! 🤩

@teddcheung @Crosbie_Jen @SickKidsGHCBMH @APADivision40 @APA @SickKidsNews Amazing, congrats!! 👏

Honored to received this award from the #apa Committee on Early Career Psychologists and National Register of Health Service Psychologists. Thanks @Crosbie_Jen and @SickKidsGHCBMH for supporting a career in clinical research & practice. #apa2024 @APADivision40 @APA @SickKidsNews

My humble view to advocate a position for a gene-centric, bottom-up approach in modern oceanography. “Beyond Meta-Omics: Functional Genomics in Future Marine Microbiome Research” | Annual Reviews - go.shr.lc/4cmIWx3

📢 @IMPACTT_Canada #HavingIMPACTT2024 @RobynJWright from @BetaScience lab 🤔 Kraken2 vs MetaPhlAn3 (PMID: 36867161) ✅MetaPhlAn is "ok" but not close to optimized Kraken protocol ✅including human database in Kraken remove human reads from microbiome analysis? Filtration needed

Advanced #Microbiome Analysis, class of 2024! We had participants from across Canada and as far as Mexico and Kazakhstan. As always, our materials are open-access... 🧵

And that's a wrap on Beginner #Microbiome Analysis at @MemorialU! We'll be right back at it tomorrow for our Advanced workshop. If you missed it, don't worry...

Applications for the 2024 MIBTP PhD studentships have reopened! One more month to apply for a fully funded PhD position to work on the discovery of bioactive natural products from fungi. 🍄🧬💊 DM me if interested warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/…

Wow! #Budget2024 is here to support Canadian Research! This is AMAZING and will be a game changer for Canadian grad students and Postdocs. Fellowships from $40k to $70k 🎉💐❗❣️ so thankful for this investment and to @SupportOurSci