Krista Ternus

@KristaTernus

Tweets about genomics and data science 💻👩‍🔬

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Joined October 2012
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    Dec 14

    Marker genes are cool, but what about marker gene neighbors?! Another paper from the murky depths of my PhD dissertation:

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    Dec 6

    Curious about CRISPR's day job as a microbial defense system? It only took me 5 years, but here's a survey of CRISPRs in the GOS and :

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    Nov 18

    KrakenUniq: confident and fast metagenomics classification using unique k-mer counts

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    Nov 7

    p.s. the next M3 will take place on Wednesday, January 9th (2019) at Johns Hopkins University (Homewood Campus). This Winter M3 will focus on Prediction and the Microbiome and will be hosted by Dr. Jocelyne DiRuggiero ().

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    Nov 7

    The M3 meeting report is now out! . Massive thanks to all of the amazing people that helped make M3 a success and a special shout out to the M3 advisory committee: . , , & Dr. Jocelyne DiRuggiero.

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    Nov 5

    HUMAnN2 for functional : identifies a community's known species, aligns reads to their pangenomes, performs translated search on unclassified reads, quantifies gene families and pathways cc

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    Nov 1

    When the moment I saw what one can learn from the long reads that is hard to see from other technologies, my passion was to bring it to true fruition. I am happy I was able to help a bit. Nice to see there is a possibility to get high quality human/all genomes soon for everyone.

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    Nov 1

    Huge news:

    Illumina to acquire , broadening access to long-read sequencing and accelerating scientific discovery
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    Nov 1

    A research scientist is working with experts at and to improve search results of large DNA databases. Beneficial to &

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    Oct 30

    No takes from me today, our paper is up! Tidy analysis on how database growth is getting a bit unwieldy (for a few reasons):

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  11. Oct 30

    Flood of genome data hinders efforts to ID bacteria

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    Oct 30

    Great idea from and to look at all past RefSeq versions and show how Kraken classifications depend heavily on the database. Our new paper:

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  13. Oct 30

    Victors: a web-based knowledge base of virulence factors in human and animal pathogens

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    Oct 23

    Register for our next meeting 11/14: "Biodefense Indicators: Progress in Implementing Key Elements of the National Blueprint for Biodefense." We'll focus on items the Panel felt the gov't could complete in the 3 years since releasing the Blueprint in 2015.

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  15. Oct 23

    BacCapSeq: a Platform for Diagnosis and Characterization of Bacterial Infections

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    Oct 12

    FAS and FBI launch bioagents education app

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  17. Oct 23

    Now would be an interesting time to sequence Austin's tap water...

    Austin Issues Citywide Boil Water Notice
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    Oct 5

    Time to call a species and species! We think that this is a common sense approach to naming botulinum-toxin producing Clostridial bacteria and should replace the confusing group nomenclature frequently used now.

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    Sep 28

    Due to the high volume of questions, the CDRH Biothreat Challenge deadline has been extended to October 19! Please continue to ask questions and submit your responses at

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    Sep 25

    My lab's hiring a bioinformatics programmer. Come work in beautiful Flagstaff. Details: Please RT!

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