Recent substantial evidence implicating commensal bacteria in human diseases has given
rise to a new domain in biomedical research: microbiome medicine. This emerging field …

Meta'omic data on microbial diversity and function accrue exponentially in public
repositories, but derived information is often siloed according to data type, study or sampled …

Phylogenetic trees provide a framework for organizing evolutionary histories across the tree
of life and aid downstream comparative analyses such as metagenomic identification …

Peptides have a plethora of activities in biological systems that can potentially be exploited
biotechnologically. Several peptides are used clinically, as well as in industry and …

Genome sequencing has revealed an incredible diversity of bacteria and archaea, but there
are no fast and convenient tools for browsing across these genomes. It is cumbersome to …

Genome mining is revolutionizing natural products discovery efforts. The rapid increase in
available genomes demands comprehensive computational platforms to effectively extract …

Despite the big data era, observational data continue to be a limiting factor in the
environmental sciences. To collect the most informative field data, studies on the value of …

The metabolic activity of microbial communities is central to their role in biogeochemical
cycles, human health, and biotechnology. Despite the abundance of sequencing data …

Resource competition is a driver of gut microbiota composition. Bacteria can outcompete
metabolically similar rivals through the limitation of shared growth-fuelling nutrients. The …

Determining the taxonomic composition (taxonomic profiling) is a fundamental task in
studying environmental and host-associated microbial communities. However, genome …