Ben WoOdcroft
@wwood
Yet another microbial bioinformatician, group leader, ARC Future Fellow https://benjwoodcroft.bsky.social
Very excited to share the first paper out of my Postdoc @CMR_QUT: GenomeFISH: genome-based fluorescence in situ hybridisation for strain-level visualisation of microbial communities. @S_J_Mc @James_Volmer @wwood doi.org/10.1093/ismejo… 🧵1/7
Our newest tool, CoverM, a unified software package which calculates several coverage statistics for contigs and genomes in an ergonomic and flexible manner has been published in Bioinformatics. You can find the full article at the link below! rb.gy/17w2df
Until now, it's been very hard for scientists to establish a detailed timeline of the early evolution of bacteria. @wwood @QUT theconversation.com/1-trillion-spe…
Congrats to CMR PhD student Brett Babec for taking home the best student speaker prize at this year's MGE Aus meeting 🥳 And another congrats to Lara Carrington on securing the @ASM_QLD Mobile Genetic Elements Award. Excellent work both 👏👏