Angela Juhasz

Happy #BioinformaticsDay!
Today, we celebrate the scientists and tools that turn biological data into discovery, and honor pioneers like Margaret Dayhoff, who helped lay the foundations of modern bioinformatics.

Here’s to the community advancing data-driven biology!

Release SeqKit v2.13.0 (10-year-old birthday version) · shenwei356/seqkit Changelog SeqKit is 10 years old! SeqKit v2.13.0 - 2026-02-28 seqkit: add support for reading and writing LZ4 compression format. new command: seqkit sample2: improved seqkit sample by @stahiga....

Can't wait to release a 10-year-old birthday version for SeqKit!

- 10 years
- 2 papers, 3500 citations
- 20 contributors
- 40 subcommands
- 880 commits
- 500 issues
- 685.5K Bioconda total downloads

Thank you all, dear contributors and users!
I'll keep maintaining it.

github.com/shenwei356/s...

A massive oak tree standing in a forest light gap surrounded by a fence.

#ThickTrunkTuesday
Walk through the forests to the iconic „Knightwood oak“ - „The Queen of the forests“, Lyndhurst, New Forest, UK a 500-600+ year old pedunculate oak.

#trees ##photography #nature

January 2026, The Plant Cell cover

We made the front cover of @theplantcell.bsky.social!

Huge congratulations to co-first authors @katielong.bsky.social and Ashleigh Lister, corresponding author @cristobaluauy.bsky.social and everyone at JIC, @earlhaminst.bsky.social and @vizgen.bsky.social who collaborated on this exciting work 👏

Imputation integrates single-cell and spatial gene expression data to resolve transcriptional networks in barley shoot meristem development - Nature Plants Spatially resolved gene expression during barley development was done by integrating an scRNA-seq dataset from cells with unknown position with spatial transcriptomics. This dataset is publicly availa...

It's finally out!...
Using single-cell and spatial transcriptome data, and data imputation, we created BARVISTA, a website able to perform almost genome-wide information on gene expression profiles at single-cell resolution in barley spikes!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

BARVISTA visualises gene expression in the barley shoot apical meristem with single-cell resolution

@edgardemesa.bsky.social @usadellab.bsky.social @simonrdg.bsky.social @isaiavardanega.bsky.social @plantgen-hhu.bsky.social @hhu.de @ceplas.bsky.social

www.plabipd.de/projects/han...

Explore gene expression evolution across organs in seven flowering plant species via our interactive atlas:

🖥️ DevSeq Plant WebApp
👉 www.devseqplant.org/index.php

📂 All datasets are openly available for reuse and reanalysis:
👉 github.com/schustischus...

🧵 Just out in Cell after more than 10 years in the making!

🎓 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Plants and animals evolve radically different body plans.

Do they also operate under fundamentally different molecular evolutionary constraints during organ formation?

@cellpress.bsky.social

Emma Johnston was a visionary scientist, environmentalist and leader, with an abiding hope for humanity The University of Melbourne Vice-Chancellor, who has died aged 52, was driven by a deep love of science and a desire to safeguard the planet’s future.

theconversation.com/emma-johnsto...

University of Melbourne’s pioneering vice-chancellor Emma Johnston dies aged 52 Emma Johnston AO became first woman to lead the 172-year-old institution in February 2025

Devastating news. A world-leading marine biologist. Lost way too soon. #ValeEmmaJohnston
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Get ready: TAIR12 is coming - Phoenix Bioinformatics More than two years ago, TAIR took the lead in a volunteer-driven project to reannotate the Arabidopsis thaliana genome

It's our birthday! Twenty-five years ago, in December 2000, the Arabidopsis thaliana genome was published and #TAIR was born.

Now, we're preparing for the release of #TAIR12 early in the new year. What a long way we've come!

bit.ly/3KDJciT

#plantbiology #plantscience #genomics #Arabidopsis

Graphical abstract showing three stage model including vulnerability assessment, thermal optima and resilience building.

#Seagrasses are most vulnerable to #marine #heatwaves in #tropical #zones: local‐scale and broad climatic zone variation in thermal tolerances

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
by Said et al.

@WileyPlantSci #PlantScience

Sometimes the best way to progress is to delete all the code I wrote today and start it again.

Honored to be included in this reflection on 20 excellent years of MolSystBiol! From our first phosphotyrosine interactome in 2005 to proteome-wide networks - scale has grown exponentially. MS proteomics + AI is transforming systems-level understanding. Exciting times!
embopress.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

If you’re still hunting for color tools, I’m working on a more user-friendly version of meodai.github.io/poline/ keeping you huedrated

Can we all agree to write all the grants in the first semester so we can do other things during the second semester?

US HUPO - Distinguished Contribution Award

Congratulations to Mike MacCoss on receiving the Donald F. Hunt Distinguished Contribution in Proteomics Award from US HUPO!
us-hupo.org/Distinguishe...

Please read the thoughtful Blog that @richardsever.bsky.social and the @openrxiv.bsky.social team wrote on integrating pre-prints with AI review openrxiv.org/enabling-rev...

Illustration of the molecular mechanism controlling mRNA export.

🤯This is wow! Molecular mechanism of mRNA export. by @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social @plaschkalab.bsky.social

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

A pangenome and pantranscriptome of hexaploid oat - Nature A pangenome of oat, assembled from 33 wild and domesticated oat lines, sheds light on the evolution and genetic diversity of this cereal crop and will aid genomics-assisted breeding to improve productivity and sustainability.

Nature research paper: A pangenome and pantranscriptome of hexaploid oat

go.nature.com/47OSVvb

GitHub - RILAB/statements: Successful Job Applications and Grants Successful Job Applications and Grants. Contribute to RILAB/statements development by creating an account on GitHub.

Lunch today halfway around the world in Hangzhou and met a new asst professor who was very thankful for this resource. Please help out folks like them and other early career scientists with examples of job apps. Submit yours!
github.com/RILAB/statem...

Nobel prize in literature 2025 live: László Krasznahorkai wins Follow along as the next winner of the world’s most prestigious literature prize is announced in Stockholm

Nobel prize in literature 2025 live: Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai wins

Principles for proper peer review

I'll just leave this here: jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/qag76ip8...

The prolamin analysis by the ECU team reveals striking variation in gluten gene families across wheat cultivars, with major implications for gluten quality, celiac disease epitopes, and tailored breeding strategies. @edithcowanuni.bsky.social
#GlutenResearch #CeliacDisease

De novo annotation reveals transcriptomic complexity across the hexaploid wheat pan-genome - Nature Communications Available wheat genomes are annotated by projecting Chinese Spring gene models across the new assemblies. Here, the authors generate de novo gene annotations for the 9 wheat genomes, identify core and dispensable transcriptome, and reveal conservation and divergence of gene expression balance across homoeologous subgenomes.

Our pan-gtranscriptome analysis delivers a detailed roadmap for gene expression and regulation promising to fuel innovations in crop improvement to face climate challenges.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@earlhaminst.bsky.social @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social @edithcowanuni.bsky.social

Happy to share our wheat pan-transcriptome paper published in Nature Communications. @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social @edithcowanuni.bsky.social

New wheat diversity discovery could provide an urgently-needed solution to global food security Newly-discovered diversity in the wheat genome could offer vital new opportunities to improve and ‘climate-proof’ one of the world’s most important staple crops.

📃 New research published today in @natcomms.nature.com from the Earlham Institute and @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social presents the first wheat pan-transcriptome - revealing layers of hidden diversity spanning our modern wheat variations. 🧪

➡️ buff.ly/ZDIRnFW

@wheatinitiative.bsky.social @ukri.org

Machine learning models highlight environmental and genetic factors associated with the Arabidopsis circadian clock - Nature Communications The authors introduce ChronoGauge as a machine learning model which can estimate a plant’s internal circadian time using gene expression. This can be used to compare the circadian clock across differe...

It's great to see you PHD takeoff and what a way to fly, read @c-reynoldsuk.bsky.social first paper from his PHD www.nature.com/articles/s41... It is also a nice collaboration with Ant Dodd at the JIC @antdodd.bsky.social @nrpdtp.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social

Screenshot of the Data Science resources website showing a list of blogs at the top of the site.

I've recently started compiling a list of data science related resources that I use or recommend frequently! 📊

Link: nrennie.rbind.io/data-science...

#RStats #Python #DataViz #DataScience