Are you interested in finding giant viruses, virophages, and PLVs inside your metagenomes? Struggling to figure out an easy way to do so? Look no further than BEREN, a one-stop-shop tool for recovery, taxonomy, and annotation of these viruses. https://t.co/OMCDlAGXcT

🦠 Now published in Bioinformatics Advances: “BEREN: A bioinformatic tool for recovering giant viruses, polinton-like viruses, and virophages in metagenomic data.”  Full article available: https://t.co/oImIhEPgui   Authors include: @Benjamin_Minch

Excited to share our new paper introducing BEREN, a tool for identifying giant and other dsDNA viruses from metagenomic data — now online! Let BEREN help with your discovery-based reseach in viral metagenomics! https://t.co/H3DqmZBO0y

Created a fun phytoplankton-themed Oregon trail style game you can play on your terminal. Check it out https://t.co/i57B6nCnmt

We’re recruiting a PhD student (Fall 2026) to study the ecology & evolution of aquatic giant viruses! Research spans lab experiment, field sampling, & bioinformatics. Background in microbiology/bioinforamtics encouraged. More information: https://t.co/bshyrMLtiW Please retweet!

Scientists used bespoke computer software to identify the genomes of microbes in seawater samples – including 230 giant viruses previously unknown to science. @univmiami @Benjamin_Minch https://t.co/L9oBdVcBt9

New paper out where we highlight many newly recovered giant viruses and find new functional potential encoded in their genomes! #giantvirus #Bioinformatics https://t.co/lEK95lBUcc

Just put together a super easy-to-use and comprehensive pipeline for calculating various genome statistics in bulk (GC, length, codon bias, TNF, complexity, N50, num genes). https://t.co/VO6FSLzFGp #bioinformatics #genomics

🚨New @delCampoLab Preprint: A Single-cell Atlas of Coral Bleaching! 🪸🦠🔥. We show the microbial ecology of coral bleaching from the gene expression of host and symbiont cells to the shifts in the bacterial and protist communities within the holobiont!

What if we could put all tailed phages in a single, evolutionarily meaningful phylogeny? Check out the latest from the Aylward Lab (twitterless) and myself - we present a phylogenomic framework toward unifying phage diversity! 🧬🤝

BEREN is available on my gitlab

BEREN: A bioinformatic tool for recovering Giant viruses, Polinton-like Viruses, and Virophages in metagenomic data

Couldn't find a file to easily convert from PDB (protein data bank) IDs to actual protein information so I decided to make one. Hope someone finds it useful.

It's Thursday!  Time for a new episode of #MattersMicrobial to be released!  This time, the #QualityQuorum will hear from @giant_virus about giant viruses and how they interact with their hosts.  Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord. @ASMicrobiology https://t.co/wOQCluAZQ0

Our latest collaborative research on giant viruses with @JedFuhrman lab on how evolutionary history dictates the temporal succession of marine giant viruses. Preprint out! @Benjamin_Minch https://t.co/JccVG6KP0h

We also highlight a stark functional divide between the two most common types of Giant virus in the ocean, possibly hinting at different infection strategies. (4/4)

Using this pipeline we discovered >230 new genomes with cool functions not found in previous Giant Viruses. (3/4)

We introduce a streamlined pipeline for the recovery of Giant Viruses from metagenomic data ( https://t.co/GSw9RblQov) (2/4) #Bioinformatics

Go check out our latest preprint where we discover a bunch of new Giant Viruses encoding new functions all over the ocean. (1/4) 🧵 Expansion of the genomic and functional diversity of global ocean giant viruses https://t.co/Wfx3PK1CrK #giantvirus

Active viral ecology of deep sea brine pool in the Gulf of Aqaba. Latest from our lab, and great collaboration with UMiami Marine Geoscience department. Spearheaded by Monir lab PhD student @Benjamin_Minch! https://t.co/HBdgkqX59v