Simple Summary Next-generation sequencing (NGS) is a powerful tool used in genomics
research. NGS can sequence millions of DNA fragments at once, providing detailed …

Diverse microbial communities of bacteria, archaea, viruses and single-celled eukaryotes
have crucial roles in the environment and in human health. However, microbes are …

SKESA is a DeBruijn graph-based de-novo assembler designed for assembling reads of
microbial genomes sequenced using Illumina. Comparison with SPAdes and MegaHit …

While metagenomics has emerged as a technology of choice for analyzing bacterial
populations, the assembly of metagenomic data remains challenging, thus stifling biological …

The study of metagenomics has been much benefited from low-cost and high-throughput
sequencing technologies, yet the tremendous amount of data generated make analysis like …

Motivation: Next-generation sequencing allows us to sequence reads from a microbial
environment using single-cell sequencing or metagenomic sequencing technologies …

The gut microbiome, which hosts up to 1000 bacterial species that encode about 5 million
genes, perform many of the functions required for host physiology and survival …

Background Recovering individual genomes from metagenomic datasets allows access to
uncultivated microbial populations that may have important roles in natural and engineered …

Environmental DNA sequencing has revealed the expansive biodiversity of microorganisms
and clarified the relationship between host-associated microbial communities and host …

Metagenomics applies a suite of genomic technologies and bioinformatics tools to directly
access the genetic content of entire communities of organisms. The field of metagenomics …