High-quality chromosome-scale haplotype sequences of diploid genomes, polyploid
genomes, and metagenomes provide important insights into genetic variation associated …

Bacteria have been inferred to exhibit relatively weak biogeographic patterns. To what
extent such findings reflect true biological phenomena or methodological artifacts remains …

Motivation The recently developed barcoding-based synthetic long read (SLR) technologies
have already found many applications in genome assembly and analysis. However …

Cyanobacteria can dominate the algal community in wastewater ponds, which can lead to
the production of cyanotoxins and their release into the environment. We applied traditional …

Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is currently used in medicine to treat recurrent
clostridial colitis and other intestinal diseases. However, neither the therapeutic mechanism …

The existence of biogeography for microorganisms is a raising topic in ecology and
researchers are employing better distinctions between single species, including the most …

In environmental metagenomic experiments, a very high proportion of the microbial
sequencing data (> 70%) remains largely unexploited because rare and closely related …

Background Metagenomic sequencing is a powerful technology for studying the mixture of
microbes or the microbiomes on human and in the environment. One basic task of analyzing …

Metagenomic sequencing technologies have rapidly advanced over the past 15 years,
which has enabled the characterization of the functional genomic potentials and taxonomic …

Microorganisms, such as all Bacteria, Archaeae, and some Eukaryotes, inhabit all
imaginable habitats in the planet, from water vents in the deep ocean to extreme …