Bin Chicken: targeted metagenomic coassembly for the efficient recovery of novel genomes

2025/11/13 by Samuel T. N. Aroney, R.B. Newell, Rhys J. P. Newell +2 · 2 voices · 7 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies #Genome Rearrangement Algorithms #Gut microbiota and health

paper · doi:10.1038/s41592-025-02901-1

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Discussions

• “Bin Chicken” is now published in Nature Methods! It substantially improves genome recovery through rational coassembly 🧬🖥️. Applied to public 🌍 metagenomes, we recovered 24,000 novel species 🦠, i [bsky, 73 points, 2 comments]
• The ISME Early Career Scientist Committee is glad to begin the year by spotlighting @aroneys.bsky.social, a Postdoctoral Researcher at QUT, and his paper, “Bin Chicken: targeted metagenomic coassembly [bsky, 17 points, 2 comments]