Artem Babaian

Genetics; Computing; Viruses; RNA |
The Laboratory for RNA-Based Lifeforms |
Molecular Genetics / Donnelly Centre @ UofT 🇨🇦

[Artem Babaian @RNA_Life]

This is the most consciousness-expanding project I've had the pleasure to contribute to:

🧬 We assembled all 27 million sequencing datasets / 44 petabases, and can search it in hours 🤯 🌎🧬

Next goal: SRA-scale BLAST search in sub 60 seconds

[Rayan Chikhi @RayanChikhi]

Today we’re excited to freely share an early-version of, perhaps, the world’s most expansive genetics dataset: Logan.

#bioinformatics #petabase #genetics #genomics #openscience

https://t.co/CQSBmvn7se

[Caleb Lareau @CalebLareau]

A history of viral encephalitis is one of the strongest risk factors for developing dementia. With @JacobJacobog02, Yifan Chen, @RNA_Life, and @RyanDhindsa, we refine this link by describing a neuronal cell type that can reactivate HSV-1 in humans 1/n

https://t.co/y8D2orzUur

[Artem Babaian @RNA_Life]

🧬5/5 #Genomics is our shared evolutionary heritage. We re-imagine public sequencing data not as an archive, but a living digital twin of Earth’s Genome.

Infrastructure like 🗻Logan🗻 will help unlock this frontier of genetic diversity 🌎🧬

Preprint🔗: https://t.co/etHJpwGrNr

[Artem Babaian @RNA_Life]

🧬Ultra fast petabase-scale virus discovery is here! 🚀

In our lab’s newest preprint, Jess explores the biodiversity of Papillomaviruses (PVs) in record time
🧵1/5 👇

🔗: https://t.co/newJ2GRsQS

[Artem Babaian @RNA_Life]

🧵4/5 Analyzing this as an 'in-silico ecosystem', we find PV biodiversity hotspots in East Africa and South America, and show that undersampl biomes like Tropical Forests or Mangroves disproportionately yield viral diversity.

[Artem Babaian @RNA_Life]

Molecular Genetics @ University of Toronto 🇨🇦@UofT🦠 is recruiting an Assistant Professor in #Virology!!

Come build your dream lab!

🔗https://t.co/MMq1l7y1PA

[Artem Babaian @RNA_Life]

@jbsteinberg If Academia is your job, you're ganna have a bad time.

If Academia is a continuation of your learning beyond the known, it's the best profession.

[Mikko Taipale @mike_tilapia]

We are looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on induced proximity and functional genomics! Join our team in Toronto 🇨🇦 to tackle major challenges in oncology and neurodegeneration.
https://t.co/y0jfQpnTtv

[Artem Babaian @RNA_Life]

@jbhuang0604 Essential Viewing: https://t.co/UENqTZamFQ

[Artem Babaian @RNA_Life]

@jbhuang0604 Trust your own instincts, and do what you think is the most important use of your time. Institutions serve scientists, not the other way around.

[Artem Babaian @RNA_Life]

@UofT @uoft_intl @UTM @UTSC @workingatuoft @univcan @OntUniv @U15ca Now is the time to come to UofT as a PostDoc 😉 --> https://t.co/sDamyjd7P0

[University of Toronto @UofT]

#UofT launches $24-million program to create 100 new postdoctoral positions, accelerate independent research ➡️ https://t.co/A180OkoPbe

[jobRxiv @jobRxiv]

Turn your #PostDoc into a Global Impact. 🌍 Join @UofT/#RNAlab to evolve plastic-degrading enzymes #SynBio. 🧬🔬

SYNTHETIC + MOLECULAR BIOLOGY on MICROPLASTICS - POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW @RNA_Life
University of Toronto

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://t.co/a7Oc4dvhSb

#enzymology #microplastics #moleculargenetics #syntheticbiology #Yeastgenetics
#ScienceJobs
https://t.co/7jf1cRqQfL

[Artem Babaian @RNA_Life]

MetaGraph: A Landmark paper in Petabase-scale Genomics is _finally_ out!
🚀🚀 Congrats Andre + Co. making the world's sequencing data🧬 available in a major achievement for the field. 🚀🚀

[Andre Kahles (@[email protected]) @akkah21]

After years of research and continuous refinement, we’re thrilled to share that our paper on the MetaGraph framework — enabling Petabase-scale search across sequencing data — has been published today in Nature (https://t.co/WQgDjIYDZL).

[Andre Kahles (@[email protected]) @akkah21]

After years of research and continuous refinement, we’re thrilled to share that our paper on the MetaGraph framework — enabling Petabase-scale search across sequencing data — has been published today in Nature (https://t.co/WQgDjIYDZL).

[Humberto Debat @humbertodebat]

Now online, our work in nucleorhabdoviruses

[Donnelly Centre @DonnellyCentre]

A warm welcome to Donnelly's newest Faculty member, Dr. Khalid Al-Zahrani! Our next news story will talk about his research and his journey; from elementary school trips to Canada Science and Technology Museum, to the first time he did bench work.

[Donnelly Centre @DonnellyCentre]

Have you ever wanted to peek behind the curtain of a hackathon? Our most recent article covers everything, from the creation of the winning projects to the private judging deliberations.

Read it here: https://t.co/WYlbNMHci4

[Rayan Chikhi @RayanChikhi]

One year after our initial preprint, we're excited to post a major update to Logan.

At its heart, Logan is the assembly of 27 million samples (50 Pbp) using a 6-day cloud-compute peaking at 2.2M vCPUs. This compresses the SRA 140x compared to raw FASTQs.

https://t.co/88WUP47Ta3