Opportunities and challenges of using metagenomic data to bring uncultured microbes into cultivation

S Liu, CD Moon, N Zheng, S Huws, S Zhao, J Wang - Microbiome, 2022 - Springer
Although there is now an extensive understanding of the diversity of microbial life on earth
through culture-independent metagenomic DNA sequence analyses, the isolation and …

Tutorial: guidelines for annotating single-cell transcriptomic maps using automated and manual methods

ZA Clarke, TS Andrews, J Atif, D Pouyabahar… - Nature protocols, 2021 - nature.com
Single-cell transcriptomics can profile thousands of cells in a single experiment and identify
novel cell types, states and dynamics in a wide variety of tissues and organisms. Standard …

The STRING database in 2023: protein–protein association networks and functional enrichment analyses for any sequenced genome of interest

D Szklarczyk, R Kirsch, M Koutrouli… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Much of the complexity within cells arises from functional and regulatory interactions among
proteins. The core of these interactions is increasingly known, but novel interactions …

DALI shines a light on remote homologs: One hundred discoveries

L Holm, A Laiho, P Törönen, M Salgado - Protein Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Structural comparison reveals remote homology that often fails to be detected by sequence
comparison. The DALI web server (http://ekhidna2. biocenter. helsinki. fi/dali) is a platform …

OrthoDB v11: annotation of orthologs in the widest sampling of organismal diversity

D Kuznetsov, F Tegenfeldt, M Manni… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
OrthoDB provides evolutionary and functional annotations of genes in a diverse sampling of
eukaryotes, prokaryotes, and viruses. Genomics continues to accelerate our exploration of …

COG database update: focus on microbial diversity, model organisms, and widespread pathogens

MY Galperin, YI Wolf, KS Makarova… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Clusters of Orthologous Genes (COG) database, also referred to as the
Clusters of Orthologous Groups of proteins, was created in 1997 and went through several …

A unified catalog of 204,938 reference genomes from the human gut microbiome

A Almeida, S Nayfach, M Boland, F Strozzi… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Comprehensive, high-quality reference genomes are required for functional characterization
and taxonomic assignment of the human gut microbiota. We present the Unified Human …

[PDF][PDF] Massive expansion of human gut bacteriophage diversity

LF Camarillo-Guerrero, A Almeida, G Rangel-Pineros… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Bacteriophages drive evolutionary change in bacterial communities by creating gene flow
networks that fuel ecological adaptions. However, the extent of viral diversity and its …

Identification of mobile genetic elements with geNomad

AP Camargo, S Roux, F Schulz, M Babinski, Y Xu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Identifying and characterizing mobile genetic elements in sequencing data is essential for
understanding their diversity, ecology, biotechnological applications and impact on public …

Improved pea reference genome and pan-genome highlight genomic features and evolutionary characteristics

T Yang, R Liu, Y Luo, S Hu, D Wang, C Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Complete and accurate reference genomes and annotations provide fundamental resources
for functional genomics and crop breeding. Here we report a de novo assembly and …