Ben Joris

Senior bioinformatician at @CeragenGrow

[Ben Joris @brjoris]

My first research paper of my PhD is out as a preprint (and under review)! Here we show that: 1. bacterial conjugation systems are differentially abundant between populations and 2. they are systematically excluded from metagenomic bins. 1/ https://t.co/eH7KVpYJgE

[Zamin Iqbal @ZaminIqbal]

First step in a community project to provide a uniformly assembled, annotated and searchable set of bacterial genomes, our preprint on our initial release of 1.9 million genome assemblies+taxonomic estimates. (figure compares with previous 661k dataset)
https://t.co/RLQiUBZJNk

[Kait Al @kait_al]

Very excited to share our latest work in @MicrobiomeJ, where we take a deep dive into the #microbiome at multiple body sites in #kidneystone formers. TLDR? The microbiome plays a massive part in this disease but Oxalobacter doesn't! https://t.co/cEKiPlJU54

[David Edgell @megatev]

Latest pub from Edgell/Gloor labs. Better sgRNA predictions in bacteria with crisprHAL. https://t.co/7Rnn7u5eo0 Huge effort (Dalton Ham @nortnlentivirus @gbgloor @tesseraqtinc). @gbgloor tweetorial (https://t.co/ihCnk9WBtM). Thanks @CIHR_IRSC @westernuBiochem @SchulichMedDent

[Ontario Genomics @ontariogenomics]

BioCreate Showcase 3: @CeragenGrow

[David Edgell @megatev]

Check out our latest pre-print on animating conjugative systems from metagenomic data for delivery of Cas9 antimicrobials. Ever wonder if metagenomic sequences are 'real'? Or how to build from scratch a 54-kb genetic element with 47 genes?
https://t.co/i4vjnp2CyJ

[CeragenGrow @CeragenGrow]

Happy #InternationalWomensDay ! A special shout out to all of the awesome #WomenInSTEM on the Ceragen R&D team and all of their hard work and dedication to increasing crop yields through plant growth promoting bacteria!

[David Edgell @megatev]

Latest pub from Edgell lab now online at NAR! https://t.co/lM7ZV5Iu0u
Awesome work from @GregP_47 & collab with @gbgloor @EmmaAllenVercoe. Thanks to @CIHR @SchulichMedDent @westernuBiochem. Want to link dCas9 activity to a metabolic pathway? Read on!

[Ontario Genomics @ontariogenomics]

📢#ForbesUnder30: @CeragenGrow founders are making headlines and we couldn't be more excited!

@ontariogenomics is a proud supporter & investor in their work as they continue to assist growers to increase crop yields by 10-20% 🤝

[CeragenGrow @CeragenGrow]

Congratulations to our founders for making the #forbes30under30 list for 2023! We at Ceragen look forward to continuing to help growers increase crop yields into 2023 and beyond! #hydroponicfarming #greenhouse #tomatoes #lettuce

[Mick W@tson ↙️ @BioMickWatson]

SEE EVERYONE GOES ON ABOUT LONG READS MAKING BETTER MAGS BUT REALLY IT'S ALL ABOUT DNA EXTRACTION AND YOU CAN'T GET LONG DNA FROM BEAD BEATING AND IF YOU DON'T BEAD BEAT HARD ENOUGH YOU BIAS THE SAMPLE AND IF YOU SIZE SELECT YOU BIAS THE SAMPLE AND U WON'T HAVE ENOUGH DNA

[Flow Genomics @FlowGenomics]

🇨🇦 Canadian full plasmid sequencing is here! 🇨🇦

[Amy Willis 😻 amydwillis.bsky.social @AmyDWillis]

How do we compare MAGs and microbial genomes with different degrees of completeness? Wonder no more! 🤔➡️🥳

Preprint out today with Pauline Trinh & David Clausen @paulinetrinh @davidandacat

#microbiome #MAGs #methods

https://t.co/I5ua2LEdQK

[Ben Joris @brjoris]

Less input DNA is a positive, but only a maximum of 10kb read lengths is less than desirable.

[Illumina @illumina]

Infinity also enables 10x greater throughput with 90% less #DNA input than legacy long reads. We anticipate an early access launch for Infinity technology in the second half of the year.

[Aziz Khan @khanaziz84]

Co-first authorship order was determined through a mushrooming contest. 😂
https://t.co/EyMK5Pb7KG

[Ben Joris @brjoris]

"Just from sitting" 🥲

[Ben Joris @brjoris]

"It’s pretty amazing how much you can learn about a novel organism just from sitting at your computer." - anonymous peer's feedback for symposium talk

[Ben Joris @brjoris]

@phylogenomics Long reads + metaFlye has been able to circularize the top-5 most abundant genomes in an environment with regularity. If your goal is most complete genomes, I think long reads are optimal, but for quantification across samples Illumina is still probably the best option.

[Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa @uOttawa]

.@uOttawa announces that vaccination will be mandatory for all students, faculty, staff, and anyone returning to or visiting campus as of September 7th, 2021. https://t.co/yHJcXB3iOE
#COVID19On #Covidvaccine

[Jill Banfield @BanfieldJill]

I repeat- I haven’t been this excited about a discovery since CRISPR. We found something enigmatic that, like CRISPR, is associated with microbial genomes. We have named these unique entities #BORGs