Principal research scientist @WestmeadInst @Iredell_lab, interested in the m(ea|i)ning of life. Bioinformatics, Data science, Microbes, Phages. Cancer survivor.

Brisbane, Queensland
Joined March 2009
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New online! Phage therapy: from basic biology to clinical application dlvr.it/TVBtBV
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🚨 🧬 Updated preprint on the completed BASEL collection - what's new? Some fun with bacterial immunity and a new P22 relative infecting E. coli K-12. A thread 🧡
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🎢 With weeks to live, musician Paul Laszlo found hope in cutting-edge #phagetherapy, @Iredell_Lab successfully treating a severe chest infection. Thanks to innovative research, he's now thriving and back on stage! πŸ’ͺ✨ Read his inspiring story: medicalresearch.nsw.gov.au/h…
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New year, new assemblies! I'm excited to announce Autocycler, my new tool for consensus assembly of long-read bacterial genomes! It's the successor to Trycycler, designed to be faster and less reliant on user intervention. Check it out: github.com/rrwick/Autocycler… (1/5)
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🌍 It's World AMR Awareness Week #WAAW2024! We're excited to unveil our revamped website, phageaustralia.org & showcasing our documentary on #PhageTherapy as a powerful tool against antimicrobial resistance. Together, let's raise awareness and drive change! πŸ’ͺ✨ #AMR
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The leadership team @PhageAustralia submitted a written document to the UK Parliament Inquiry on "The #antimicrobial potential of #bacteriophages" Our reflection is published here: phageaustralia.org/blog/anti… @Iredell_Lab @stephen_stick @warnmorgs @AntonPeleg @syctong @stephh_lynch
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Metagenomics-Toolkit: The Flexible and Efficient Cloud-Based Metagenomics Workflow featuring Machine Learning-Enabled Resource Allocation biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… 🧬πŸ–₯️πŸ§ͺ #nextflow github.com/metagenomics/meta…
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Nouri Ben Zakour, PhD πŸ‡«πŸ‡·πŸ‡·πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί retweeted
This is #bioinformatics science fiction but real. Pan-SRA nucleotide search; for free; in minutes 🀯
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Emergency bulletin! 14 journals have co-published an urgent call for the deployment of microbial solutions against climate catastrophe, by @peixotors et al. nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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Nouri Ben Zakour, PhD πŸ‡«πŸ‡·πŸ‡·πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί retweeted
πŸš€ Exciting day! Stephanie and Clare inspired high school students with their talk on career pathways in science. They shared insights on phage therapy and the fight against antimicrobial resistance, sparking interest in future scientists! 🧬✨ #CareerAdvice #PhageTherapy #STEM
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🧠 My secret weapon for making research papers ENTER MY BRAIN: A thread about what's working (+ new AI tools I'm testing!) 🧡
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This weekend @stephh_lynch represented @PhageAustralia at #SanDiego International Film Festival discussing our #phagetherapy initiatives & showcasing @Emma_WattsTV @SBS documentary - "Last chance to save a live" in πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί @Iredell_Lab treated his first patient with #phage in 2007.
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β€œThis important study shows how a combination of the latest generation of @nanopore long reads with state-of-the art variant callers enables bacterial variant discovery at an accuracy that matches or exceeds the current "gold standard" with short reads” elifesciences.org/articles/9…
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This new R package is wild. It's called ggalign. Here's what it can do:
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Nouri Ben Zakour, PhD πŸ‡«πŸ‡·πŸ‡·πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί retweeted
Our #AdvancedTherapeutics Biobanking Coordinator Carina Lauter presented a talk & a poster at #ABNA2024, Adelaide, 16-18 Oct 2024 on our effort at @PhageAustralia towards accessible #phagetherapy & advanced therapeutics Congratulations to Carina for winning the poster prize πŸ†
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Nouri Ben Zakour, PhD πŸ‡«πŸ‡·πŸ‡·πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί retweeted
workflowhub.eu/: a registry for computational workflows arxiv.org/abs/2410.06941 (Nextflow, Snakemake, KNIME, Galaxy, CWL, others)
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Spacedust: de novo discovery of conserved gene clusters. Combining sensitive Foldseek structure search and conserved neighborhood detection to discover functionally-associated gene clusters in prokaryotic & viral genomes. πŸš€github.com/soedinglab/spaced… πŸ“„biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… 1/6🧡
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Nouri Ben Zakour, PhD πŸ‡«πŸ‡·πŸ‡·πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί retweeted
Glad to share a brief look at my interview w/ @MedResearchNSW about developments in #phagetherapy at Westmead, highlighting our research & the ongoing efforts to improve phage therapy outcomes. Thank you, #OHMR, for your continued support! medicalresearch.nsw.gov.au/h…
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