Whether the human fetus and the prenatal intrauterine environment (amniotic fluid and
placenta) are stably colonized by microbial communities in a healthy pregnancy remains a …

The genus Prevotella includes more than 50 characterized species that occur in varied
natural habitats, although most Prevotella spp. are associated with humans. In the human …

Metagenomic assembly enables new organism discovery from microbial communities, but it
can only capture few abundant organisms from most metagenomes. Here we present …

The human microbiome is an integral component of the human body and a co-determinant
of several health conditions,. However, the extent to which interpersonal relations shape the …

Antibiotics played an important role in controlling the development of enteric infection.
However, the emergence of antibiotic resistance and gut dysbiosis led to a growing interest …

Associations between age and the human microbiota are robust and reproducible. The
microbial composition at several body sites can predict human chronological age relatively …

Over the past two decades, interest in human microbiome research has increased
exponentially. Regrettably, this increased activity has brought with it a degree of hype and …

The gut is inhabited by a densely populated ecosystem, the gut microbiota, that is
established at birth. However, the succession by which different bacteria are incorporated …

Despite recent advances in metagenomic binning, reconstruction of microbial species from
metagenomics data remains challenging. Here we develop variational autoencoders for …

Coexisting microbial cells of the same species often exhibit genetic variation that can affect
phenotypes ranging from nutrient preference to pathogenicity. Here we present inStrain, a …