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31 Jul 2024
This is the most consciousness-expanding project I've had the pleasure to contribute to:
🧬 We assembled all 27 million sequencing datasets / 44 petabases, and can search it in hours 🤯 🌎🧬
Next goal: SRA-scale BLAST search in sub 60 seconds
31 Jul 2024
Today we’re excited to freely share an early-version of, perhaps, the world’s most expansive genetics dataset: Logan.
#bioinformatics #petabase #genetics #genomics #openscience
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A history of viral encephalitis is one of the strongest risk factors for developing dementia. With @JacobJacobog02, Yifan Chen, @RNA_Life, and @RyanDhindsa, we refine this link by describing a neuronal cell type that can reactivate HSV-1 in humans 1/n
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Apr 23
🧬Ultra fast petabase-scale virus discovery is here! 🚀
In our lab’s newest preprint, Jess explores the biodiversity of Papillomaviruses (PVs) in record time
🧵1/5 👇
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🧵4/5 Analyzing this as an 'in-silico ecosystem', we find PV biodiversity hotspots in East Africa and South America, and show that undersampl biomes like Tropical Forests or Mangroves disproportionately yield viral diversity.
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🧬5/5 #Genomics is our shared evolutionary heritage. We re-imagine public sequencing data not as an archive, but a living digital twin of Earth’s Genome.
Infrastructure like 🗻Logan🗻 will help unlock this frontier of genetic diversity 🌎🧬
Preprint🔗: doi.org/10.64898/2026.04.21.…
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Molecular Genetics @ University of Toronto 🇨🇦@UofT🦠 is recruiting an Assistant Professor in #Virology!!
Come build your dream lab!
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19 Nov 2025
We are looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on induced proximity and functional genomics! Join our team in Toronto 🇨🇦 to tackle major challenges in oncology and neurodegeneration.
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13 Nov 2025
#UofT launches $24-million program to create 100 new postdoctoral positions, accelerate independent research ➡️ uoft.me/bZI
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Turn your #PostDoc into a Global Impact. 🌍 Join @UofT/#RNAlab to evolve plastic-degrading enzymes #SynBio. 🧬🔬
SYNTHETIC MOLECULAR BIOLOGY on MICROPLASTICS - POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW @RNA_Life
University of Toronto
See the full job description on jobRxiv: jobrxiv.org/job/university-o…
#enzymology #microplastics #moleculargenetics #syntheticbiology #Yeastgenetics
#ScienceJobs
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8 Oct 2025
MetaGraph: A Landmark paper in Petabase-scale Genomics is _finally_ out!
🚀🚀 Congrats Andre Co. making the world's sequencing data🧬 available in a major achievement for the field. 🚀🚀
After years of research and continuous refinement, we’re thrilled to share that our paper on the MetaGraph framework — enabling Petabase-scale search across sequencing data — has been published today in Nature (nature.com/articles/s41586-0…).
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After years of research and continuous refinement, we’re thrilled to share that our paper on the MetaGraph framework — enabling Petabase-scale search across sequencing data — has been published today in Nature (nature.com/articles/s41586-0…).
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1 Oct 2025
Now online, our work in nucleorhabdoviruses
1 Oct 2025
our latest manuscript with
@humbertodebat
and Ralf Dietzgen is just out in Virology! We identified 47 novel nucleorhabdoviruses in our final chapter of a trilogy exploring the hidden diversity of plant-associated rhabdoviruses sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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30 Sep 2025
A warm welcome to Donnelly's newest Faculty member, Dr. Khalid Al-Zahrani! Our next news story will talk about his research and his journey; from elementary school trips to Canada Science and Technology Museum, to the first time he did bench work.
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29 Sep 2025
Have you ever wanted to peek behind the curtain of a hackathon? Our most recent article covers everything, from the creation of the winning projects to the private judging deliberations.
Read it here: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.c…
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3 Sep 2025
One year after our initial preprint, we're excited to post a major update to Logan.
At its heart, Logan is the assembly of 27 million samples (50 Pbp) using a 6-day cloud-compute peaking at 2.2M vCPUs. This compresses the SRA 140x compared to raw FASTQs.
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3 Sep 2025
🌎👩🔬 For 15 years biology has accumulated petabytes (million gigabytes) of🧬DNA sequencing data🧬 from the far reaches of our planet.🦠🍄🌵
Logan now democratizes efficient access to the world’s most comprehensive genetics dataset. Free and open.
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15 Aug 2025
🤯 One of the coolest stories I've ever come across showcasing virus-host-superhost interactions. This is a major paradigm in virus pathology that is woefully under-explored. 🍄 #virology #microbiology #fungi
14 Aug 2025
🚨 Fungi viruses mammalian lungs? Buckle up! Our new paper in
@natmicrobiol.nature.com
uncovers the story of a deadly fungus and its gnarly viral hitchhiker — and how this duo may change how we diagnose & treat fungal disease 🍄🫁🚨 doi.org/10.1038/s41564-025-0… ⬇️
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11 Aug 2025
We are happy to announce that our latest manuscript has been published in Nature Communications! We identified the highly abundant and prevalent giant extrachromosomal element in the human mouth, named "Inocle". nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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4 Jun 2025
#UofT and its hospital partners are celebrating the life and legacy of Professor Emeritus James Till, whose research demonstrated the existence of stem cells and fundamentally transformed the field of medical science. uoft.me/bDb
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