Metagenomic sequencing is revolutionizing the detection and characterization of microbial
species, and a wide variety of software tools are available to perform taxonomic …

Diarrhoeal diseases collectively constitute a serious public health challenge globally,
especially as the leading cause of death in children (after respiratory diseases). Childhood …

Nanopore DNA strand sequencing has emerged as a competitive, portable technology.
Reads exceeding 150 kilobases have been achieved, as have in-field detection and …

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

We report unbiased metagenomic detection of chikungunya virus (CHIKV), Ebola virus
(EBOV), and hepatitis C virus (HCV) from four human blood samples by MinION nanopore …

Antimicrobial resistance has become an imminent concern for public health. As methods for
detection and characterization of antimicrobial resistance move from targeted culture and …

Microorganisms have a long track record as important sources of novel bioactive natural
products, particularly in the field of drug discovery. While microbes have been shown to …

Burkholderia cepacia (formerly Pseudomonas cepacia) was once thought to be a single
bacterial species but has expanded to the Burkholderia cepacia complex (Bcc), comprising …

Although disinfection is key to infection control, the colonization patterns and resistomes of
hospital-environment microbes remain underexplored. We report the first extensive genomic …

An apparatus in one embodiment comprises at least one processing device having a
processor coupled to a memory. The one or more processing devices are operative to …