Complex microbial communities shape the dynamics of various environments, ranging from
the mammalian gastrointestinal tract to the soil. Advances in DNA sequencing technologies …

Microbiome research has grown rapidly over the past decade, with a proliferation of new
methods that seek to make sense of large, complex data sets. Here, we survey two of the …

Abstract The Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes system v. 5.0 (IMG/M: https://img.
jgi. doe. gov/m/) contains annotated datasets categorized into: archaea, bacteria, eukarya …

Background The study of microbiomes using whole-metagenome shotgun sequencing
enables the analysis of uncultivated microbial populations that may have important roles in …

Tomato variety Hawaii 7996 is resistant to the soil-borne pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum,
whereas the Moneymaker variety is susceptible to the pathogen. To evaluate whether plant …

Human skin functions as a physical barrier to foreign pathogen invasion and houses
numerous commensals. Shifts in the human skin microbiome have been associated with …

Metagenomic binning is the step in building metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs)
when sequences predicted to originate from the same genome are automatically grouped …

The cow rumen is adapted for the breakdown of plant material into energy and nutrients, a
task largely performed by enzymes encoded by the rumen microbiome. Here we present …

Methods for assembly, taxonomic profiling and binning are key to interpreting metagenome
data, but a lack of consensus about benchmarking complicates performance assessment …

Lichens represent self-supporting symbioses, which occur in a wide range of terrestrial
habitats and which contribute significantly to mineral cycling and energy flow at a global …