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Cheng Peng (City University of Hong Kong) and colleagues published a new paper on a genome foundation model for virus discovery, showing ViraLM outperforms existing tools in identifying novel viral contigs in metagenomic data, especially im

Kurzgesagt released a new video on viromes and their impact on health, emphasizing the role of phages in microbiome dynamics! Check it out!

Washington University Medical Campus, St. Louis, USA is hiring a Research Technician II - Molecular Microbiology to assist with experiments on diverse novel viruses, including those in the human virome.

The Deng lab at Helmholtz Zentrum München in Germany is looking for a PhD student in Bioinformatics to study virome and microbiome interactions using single-cell technologies, multi-omics methods, and machine learning for developing phage-b

Baylor College of Medicine is hiring a postdoc to conduct research in Wastewater Epidemiology of the Human Virome.

Evelien Adriaenssens at the Quadram Institute, Norwich, UK is hiring a Research Scientist to analyze the virome of longitudinal gut microbiome studies, as well study as the use of phages to prevent food-borne illness. The role will be parti

Evelien Adriaenssens wrote a piece for The Conversation on how thousands of phages (most of them unknown!) have been found in baby poo! The original study was done by a collaborative team from Denmark, Canada and France. And they even made

This article by Mart Krupovic and colleagues discusses the origin of the eukaryotic cell and the last eukaryotic common ancestor (LECA). They reconstructed the LECA virus repertoire and found that the origin of the LECA virome can be traced

Two PhD positions on environmental and human viromes, and phage at Flinders University, South Australia

Lore Van Espen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) and colleagues published a new paper in mSystems showing a previously undescribed highly prevalent phage identified in a Danish enteric virome catalog

The Quadram Institute Bioscience (QIB), based in Norwich, UK is hiring a Virome Research Scientist to study the intestinal virome and understanding the diversity and impact of viruses at key life stages during human development. The success

Ryan Cook (University of Nottingham) and colleagues published a new paper in Microbiome showing how a hybrid assembly of an agricultural slurry virome revealed a diverse and stable community with the potential to alter the metabolism and vi

Dr. David Pride (IPATH, UCSD) wrote a great Scientific American article on the complexity of viruses and the human body. He talks about the tricky tasks of mapping where they are and how they spread, and managing the bad ones while exploiti

Virome datasets are being generated at unprecedented rates, but new data are rarely cross-compared, which leads to virus novelty being inflated in new datasets and many viral sequences going undetected. A new preprint by Ann Gregory and col

Virome datasets are being generated at unprecedented rates, but new data are rarely cross-compared, which leads to virus novelty being inflated in new datasets and many viral sequences going undetected. A new preprint by Ann Gregory and col

virMine is a new phage bioinformatics tool by Andrea Garretto and colleagues at Loyola University of Chicago. Use virMine to identify viral genomes from raw reads representative of viral or mixed (viral and bacterial) communities. Paper | G

virMine is a new phage bioinformatics tool by Andrea Garretto and colleagues at Loyola University of Chicago. Use virMine to identify viral genomes from raw reads representative of viral or mixed (viral and bacterial) communities. Paper | G