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Now in Quant. Plant Biol.: New tool for DNA methlyation analysis

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@plantevolution.bsky.social - PlantEvolution 🌱🌾
#CitizenScience embedded into Borderlands 3, a popular video game. Here, it was used to crowdsource the alignment of 1M 16S rRNA sequences from human microbiome studies. The resulting multiple sequence alignments are better than state-of-the-art computational methods.https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-024-02175-6
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When I served on NIH review panels, I always thought: We need more *not so good* #plantscience proposals! The plant proposals were on average so much better than the rest, but as a 🌱 biologist, it was difficult to convince the other panel members that 🌱 scientists all punched above their weight.[contains quote post or other embedded content]
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Great news for eLife! It has been a privilege to work with Tim for the last year, and I can’t imagine a better choice for eLife’s Editor-in-Chief. Happy to be able to support eLife as Senior Editor going forward.[contains quote post or other embedded content]
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New preprint: Chloroplast and mitochondrial #pangenome of #Arabidopsis thaliana! Work led by wenfeixian.bsky.social#plantsciencehttps://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.11.632530v1
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😱 So it gets crazier: the correspondent doubled down. (A paper was attached, but obviously with a different, albeit related title.)[contains quote post or other embedded content]
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