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metaSPAdes in the latest MGnify pipeline!
EMBL-EBI presented the latest version of the MGnify 5 pipeline, which now uses metaSPAdes for all metagenome assemblies. Check out new version at EMBL-EBI website here. More detailed information on the latest release can be found in the original paper.
Congratulations to Anton Korobeynikov and all members of our laboratory, who is taking part in this project! Looking forward to new great results in this collaboration!
This work was supported by RFBR # 18-54-74004, joint grant with EMBL.
First complete genome sequence of SARS-CoV-2 from Russia
First complete genome sequence of coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 from a Russian patient was sequenced by the scientific group from Smorodintsev Research Institute of Influenza in collaboration with members of our laboratory Michael Rayko and Dmitry Antipov. The sequence, named hCoV-19/Russia/StPetersburg-3524/2020, is available via GISAID.
See more details in N+1 (in Russian)
SPbU Awards 2019 in Education
Members of the Center for Algorithmic Biotechnology were honored with St. Petersburg University annual scientific and educational awards (see all winners in Russian). Research Fellow Michael Rayko took the first place in the category of “Educational and methodical work” (for the SPbU Coursera online course “Introduction to Bioinformatics: Metagenomics”).
SPbU Scientific Awards 2019
Members of the Center for Algorithmic Biotechnology were honored with St. Petersburg University annual scientific and educational awards (see all winners in Russian). Junior Research Fellow Dmitry Meleshko and Leading Research Fellow Anton Korobeynikov took the first place in the category of “Contribution to science of young researchers” (for their paper “MetaSPAdes: a new versatile metagenomic assembler“).
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