Peter Menzel

Bioinformatics Scientist at Labor Berlin / Clinical Bioinfo / ❤️#rstats / @[email protected] / @pmenzel.bsky.social /

[George Bouras @GB13Faithless]

Amazing and comprehensive guide to adding, updating and debugging bioinformatics software tools on Bioconda by @jfy133 (expanding on his earlier blogpost) - if you do bioinformatics software dev, it is truly all you need to get started with Bioconda

[Pathoplexus @pathoplexus]

📢 We're excited to introduce Pathoplexus, a specialized sequence database for human viral pathogens! 🌍 🧬
Launching with 4 viruses, https://t.co/4wGez2nTCr combines modern open-source software with transparent governance to improve global pathogen sequence sharing.

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[Matt Durrant @mgdurrant]

Our 2 bridge RNA papers are finally published in @Nature! Check out the incredible CryoEM structures, they're truly beautiful. A years-long rollercoaster ride, it's hard for me to imagine a more exciting project than this. Thank you to @ntperry13, @pdhsu, and our amazing team!

[NCBI @NCBI]

Reminder! Effective June 2024, older API and CLI versions of NCBI Datasets will no longer be supported. Install the latest version and learn how to access the new API (v2alpha): https://t.co/BfKvTMnoeu

[The Lancet Microbe @LancetMicrobe]

New research article

#SARSCoV2 rapid antigen test sensitivity and viral load in newly symptomatic hospital employees in Berlin, Germany, December, 2020 to February, 2022: an observational study

https://t.co/qShNZpAjKT

#COVID19 #OpenAccess #OA

[Peter Menzel @ptr_menzel]

Variability and bias in microbiome metagenomic sequencing: an interlaboratory study comparing experimental protocols https://t.co/tf8WZTQEFZ

[Peter Menzel @ptr_menzel]

Snakemake workflows for long-read bacterial genome assembly and evaluation in @GigaByteJournal https://t.co/WICV3fRqEP

[Peter Menzel @ptr_menzel]

@jlsteenwyk Very nice! Do you think that the misidentified isolates will be corrected in Genbank/RefSeq databases based on your findings?

[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

[Peter Menzel @ptr_menzel]

@NCBI I am also not happy with this. This will break a lot of people's workflows and software packages that rely on downloading BLAST FASTAs

[Peter Menzel @ptr_menzel]

My thoughts exactly. C gives a way better introduction on how the computer and OS actually work beneath one's own program. Also one will appreciate other languages (e.g. C++) way more after learning how complicated it can be to get stuff done in C.

[𝕐 @nomad421]

As far as languages to use in introductory Computer Science courses, I actually don't think C is that bad, and, in fact, is way better than Java and Python; don't @ me.

[Peter Menzel @ptr_menzel]

P. commovens was first described in 2019 by Peeters et al. in https://t.co/3lUcYn8kbZ

[Peter Menzel @ptr_menzel]

New paper about a nosocomial outbreak of the rather uncommon species Pandoraea commovens. https://t.co/teADAAmbUa

[Giovanni Colantonio @MarioPrime]

It’s truly pathetic that this is the endgame of social media. A powerful tool for education and organization co-opted into a dead-eyed utopia for brands to post the most saccharine shit imaginable and have it forced into your feed. Happy meal ass app.

[Peter Menzel @ptr_menzel]

@theosanderson https://t.co/24ntVqMvg3 has colors

[Harman Idema @HarmaninToronto]

There are no more borders in the European Union.

However, you will always know where the Netherlands begins.

[Peter Menzel @ptr_menzel]

@rbb24 So einen Quatsch hätte ich eigentlich vom Tagesspiegel und Co erwartet, aber nicht von den ÖR.

[Peter Menzel @ptr_menzel]

. @rbb24 verbreitet immer noch Falschinformationen zum #bahnstreik von gestern auf der Homepage. Gekaufte Tickets für die Streiktage sind auch danach gültig, #Fahrgastrechte

[bioRxiv @biorxivpreprint]

Variability and Bias in Microbiome Metagenomic Sequencing: an Interlaboratory Study Comparing Experimental Protocols https://t.co/5ExZBoFJGn #bioRxiv

[Peter Menzel @ptr_menzel]

APC fees for almost all life science journals are through the roof in the last few years.

[Roland Dunbrack 🏳️‍🌈 @rolanddunbrack.bsky.social @RolandDunbrack]

If only the editors of Bioinformatics (@OUPBioinfo), the flagship journal of @iscb, would take a stand against their high APC fees ($3618, even for a 2-page Applications Note)... https://t.co/huOfPV9Vju