John Eppley
@jmeppley
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A software engineer or microbial ecologist depending on when you ask me, always a dad and husband. He/him.
California, USA
Joined May 2009
Phage satellites are short DNA elements that hijack viruses to hop from cell to cell, and we* found thousands of them in a few liters of Pacific Ocean water. * w/@steve_biller, @oceanmicrobes, Andy Burger, and Ed DeLong. 1/.
pnas.org
Phage satellites are mobile genetic elements that propagate by parasitizing bacteriophage replication. We report here the discovery of abundant and...
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RT @JulianCastro: Agree. Joe Biden and Congressional leaders have an opportunity to demonstrate moral clarity in this moment. They should d….
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RT @iyad_elbaghdadi: This sentiment is spreading far & wide among many people who 10 days ago were completely behind Israel.
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RT @Graham_Coop: A new paper claiming a simple model of genetics fit a range of social traits. It’s interesting data, but it’s a massive re….
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RT @sam_d_1995: This is entirely a policy choice. Japan has seen declining traffic fatalities for the past three decades. If America had t….
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RT @charlesornstein: “She had discovered what appears to be the largest known slave auction in the United States and, with it, a new story….
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Lauren Davila made a stunning discovery as a graduate student at the College of Charleston: an ad for a slave auction larger than any historian had yet identified. The find yields a new understanding...
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RT @telegraphforppl: 🚨 BAY AREA FOLKS! 🚨 It’s time to mobilize and tell our state lawmakers to save public transit and avoid service cuts.….
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RT @CREAF_ecologia: Hoy mismo se publica un estudio en la revista científica @PNASNews que advierte que hemos perdido, de media, un 25% de….
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RT @phylogenomics: I encourage everyone to donate to this fund in honor of @ucdavis undergrad Karim Majdi Abou Najm who was killed last wee….
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In memory of Karim Majdi Abou Najm
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This is a promising approach to classifying and identifying genes in novel genomes. Their protein language model was able to detect distantly related genes beyond the ability of current methods.
New preprint driven by the incredible @zflam94 @EinsteinMed and an awesome new collab with my former @ChisholmLab_MIT @MIT_CEE postdoc buddy @steve_biller: Large language models improve annotation of viral proteins. A thread.
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RT @th4ckl: @STCmicrobeblog Wow, feeling honored having our work featured on my favorite microbe blog! Thanks Maria for that eloquent revie….
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RT @unstoppablebaby: All the respect in the world to the Kings. Incredible season. Incredible series. Did not back down for a second. They'….
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RT @CityofDavis: Below is a statement regarding the death of David Breaux. The Davis Phoenix Coalition will be hosting a vigil on4/30 at 7….
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