C. Titus Brown

https://github.com/ctb/sourmash_plugin_abundhist is incredibly useful in several situations, but it needs some love. ref https://github.com/ctb/sourmash_plugin_abundhist/issues/4 and https://github.com/sourmash-bio/sourmash/issues/3458, but also: - better defaults and/or automated behavior - smoothed histogram output - other...

workshop link: [K-mer Workshop for Biodiversity Genomics](https://github.com/WCSCourses/K-mer_Biodiversity_Genomics_2025/) tutorials by @bluegenes supported by @bettafische [1. An introduction to FracMinHash sketching for sequence comparisons](https://hackmd.io/@bluegenes/H1ItsC_fxx) [2. Comparing genomes and metagenomes using FracMinHash sketches](https://hackmd.io/@bluegenes/Byh_JfKGgg)...

EXP: upgrade selection and other things in Rust

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NOTE: PR into #3647

see #1037 - protein sketching doesn't warn you if you're sketching DNA sequence (but it should). making an issue so it doesn't get lost in our backlog of pull requests!

add DNA/protein check on first 100 bp of FASTA files

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One of the most dangerous flaws in our protein hash calculations is that sourmash doesn't do any sequence type checks: you need to explicitly specify `--input-is-protein` for amino acid inputs,...

many GenBank RocksDB databases available on farm

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I built the following RocksDB databases on farm (so, only locally accessible, for now). All under: `~ctbrown/scratch3/2025-build-farm-rocksdb/rocksdb`. I will move them somewhere better when I have a moment, and update...

use polars to go from SRA accessions to run identifiers

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Luiz shows us a nice command: https://github.com/AllTheBacteria/AllTheBacteria/issues/54#issuecomment-2585480967

so, for example `{ ... }` will get interpreted improperly.

I am not sure but I think we might be missing abund columns?