Prevotella diversity, niches and interactions with the human host

A Tett, E Pasolli, G Masetti, D Ercolini… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
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 …

Machine learning for microbiologists

F Asnicar, AM Thomas, A Passerini… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Machine learning is increasingly important in microbiology where it is used for tasks
such as predicting antibiotic resistance and associating human microbiome features with …

GTDB: an ongoing census of bacterial and archaeal diversity through a phylogenetically consistent, rank normalized and complete genome-based taxonomy

DH Parks, M Chuvochina, C Rinke… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Genome Taxonomy Database (GTDB; https://gtdb. ecogenomic. org) provides a
phylogenetically consistent and rank normalized genome-based taxonomy for prokaryotic …

RESCRIPt: Reproducible sequence taxonomy reference database management

MS Robeson, DR O'Rourke, BD Kaehler… - PLoS computational …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Nucleotide sequence and taxonomy reference databases are critical resources for
widespread applications including marker-gene and metagenome sequencing for …

A complete domain-to-species taxonomy for Bacteria and Archaea

DH Parks, M Chuvochina, PA Chaumeil, C Rinke… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The Genome Taxonomy Database is a phylogenetically consistent, genome-based
taxonomy that provides rank-normalized classifications for~ 150,000 bacterial and archaeal …

GTDB-Tk: a toolkit to classify genomes with the Genome Taxonomy Database

PA Chaumeil, AJ Mussig, P Hugenholtz, DH Parks - 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Summary The Genome Taxonomy Database Toolkit (GTDB-Tk) provides objective
taxonomic assignments for bacterial and archaeal genomes based on the GTDB. GTDB-Tk …

Unambiguous identification of fungi: where do we stand and how accurate and precise is fungal DNA barcoding?

R Lücking, MC Aime, B Robbertse, AN Miller… - IMA fungus, 2020 - Springer
True fungi (Fungi) and fungus-like organisms (eg Mycetozoa, Oomycota) constitute the
second largest group of organisms based on global richness estimates, with around 3 …

VIRIDIC—A novel tool to calculate the intergenomic similarities of prokaryote-infecting viruses

C Moraru, A Varsani, AM Kropinski - Viruses, 2020 - mdpi.com
Nucleotide-based intergenomic similarities are useful to understand how viruses are related
with each other and to classify them. Here we have developed VIRIDIC, which implements …

[HTML][HTML] Elevated rates of horizontal gene transfer in the industrialized human microbiome

M Groussin, M Poyet, A Sistiaga, SM Kearney, K Moniz… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Industrialization has impacted the human gut ecosystem, resulting in altered microbiome
composition and diversity. Whether bacterial genomes may also adapt to the …

Introducing EzAAI: a pipeline for high throughput calculations of prokaryotic average amino acid identity

D Kim, S Park, J Chun - Journal of Microbiology, 2021 - Springer
The average amino acid identity (AAI) is an index of pairwise genomic relatedness, and
multiple studies have proposed its application in prokaryotic taxonomy and related …