Ashwin Sudarshan

💥 Excited to introduce Bacformer 🦠 - the first foundation model for bacterial genomics. Bacformer represents genomes as sequences of ordered proteins, learning the “grammar” of how genes are arranged, interact and evolve.

Preprint 📝: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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I have heard Julie rave about this project for a while. Super excited about this campaign!! Please fund this!!🤩🤩🤩🤩😃😃😃😃

GitHub - shandley/awesome-virome: A listing of software, tools and databases useful for virome analysis A listing of software, tools and databases useful for virome analysis - shandley/awesome-virome

Check out this list of awesome #virome tools and be sure to add yours!

github.com/shandley/awe...

#phagesky #microsky

If you have been using #anvio to analyze your microbial pangenomes, we have a new program for you to calculate rarefaction curves or Heaps' Law fit for your gene clusters:

anvio.org/help/main/pr...

Sorry it took this long :/ But at least t will run on any existing anvi'o pangenome :)

Looks interesting, plasmid assembly from multiple metagenomes
"On synthetic benchmark datasets, PlasMAAG reconstructed 50-121% more near-complete plasmids than competing methods and improved the Matthews Correlation Coefficient of geNomad contig classif. by 28-106%

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Towards improved biofilm models Nature Reviews Microbiology - In this Perspective, Rumbaugh and Whiteley explore the advantages and limitations of current medical biofilm models and outline a framework for quantitatively...

Was a pleasure writing this with @whiteleylab, excited to share it with the biofilm community!
rdcu.be/dQf4Z

The ever-changing tree of life Nature Microbiology - The tree of life is a galvanizing image, anchoring biological diversity within a common framework. From a new view in 2016, the tree has continued to grow, and with it, our...

Eight years later, I revisit the tree of life. “Future trees may need to distinguish not only between cultured and uncultured lineages, but between extant and extinct”

rdcu.be/dPNpB

Are there any specific Fourth of July traditions people follow?? Super curious how this holiday is celebrated and what people do!!🥳🥳😊😊

Strain tracking in complex microbiomes using synteny analysis reveals per-species modes of evolution - Nature Biotechnology The evolution of microbial strains is revealed by analyzing structural variation.

Interesting approach:
Strain tracking in complex microbiomes using synteny analysis reveals per-species modes of evolution

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Poster up #ASMicrobe based on our latest preprint! Happy to chat about this work in case anyone is interested!

It always blows my mind how Mexican and Indian cuisine have a lot of similarities!!🤯🤯🤯

Tajin chilis smell a lot like the kind of chilis my mom uses in South India (We call it “Gundu Milagai” locally and it translates to fat chili because these are short and round in shape).

New drinking water genome catalog identifies a globally distributed bacterial genus adapted to disinfected drinking water systems. bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

Very excited for this new @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social led by @ashsudarshan.bsky.social! "New drinking water genome catalog identifies a globally distributed bacterial genus adapted to disinfected drinking water systems." Check it out.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I’d love a copy of that template if you could send it over!!😃

Anybody has a good template to make a resume? Been meaning to update and improve my resume and would love some templates to work with. Thanks!

Reposting this message: I am looking to hire a lab manager/research technician for our laboratory. Please help us spread the word. If you know of any motivated candidates, please encourage them to contact me. Microbiology lab experience would be preferred. Looking for at least a 1.5 year commitment.

My mom was very excited to watch India in the ICC World Cup finals:

Me: Do you know that India has never beat Australia in a WC Finals.

Mom: Yeah :(

Me: Well… There’s a first time for everything…

Mom: 😃😃😃

Famous last words😭😭😭

Looking to recruit 3 grad researchers. (1) Drinking water micro-ecology, (2) Nitrogen micro (specifically comammox), and (3) Algal micro + imaging. as Spring 2024 & late as Fall 2024. if you know someone creative + motivated + interested in these topics - would appreciate u sharing this with them.

Trader Joe’s crunchy chili cranberry oraange and onion oil

Should I??🤨🤨🤨

Atlanta is so warm for this time of the year that trees are confused about shedding their leaves?😓😓

Tried Tteokbokki for the first time today!

Sweet, Spicy chewy goodness🤤🤤

wonderful joint research group pumpkin carving halloween party last night with @methanojen.bsky.social’s and katy graham’s groups.

Hope y’all have a good week😊😊

Me: What a week huh??😥😥😓😓

Later realizes it is only Wednesday😓😓😓

Saw this Ad pitting Kit Kat and Reese’s for Halloween. This isn’t a fair fight…

It is obviously Reese’s🤤🤤🤤

Unraveling the functional dark matter through global metagenomics - Nature A computational approach to generate reference-free protein families from the sequence space in metagenomes reveals an enormously diverse functional space.

Unraveling the functional dark matter through global metagenomics www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Are there any standard softwares people use to generate animations for slides? Other than biorender..

Especially microbial animations for papers and presentations.

Hope y’all are having a less awkward day!

Just blanked out in front of the cashier and it took me an uncharacteristically long time to say Credit card for method of payment while buying an energy drink before class😭😭😭

I don’t mean to be rude, but when you put out data on NCBI, PLEASE ENSURE THAT THERE IS AT LEAST THE BARE MINIMUM INFORMATION FOR OTHERS TO MAKE USE OF THE DATA!!!!!!!

I am at that point in my life where I am thinking of using the George Constanza method to function daily!

Do the opposite of everything my instincts say…👍👍