Current progress and open challenges for applying deep learning across the biosciences

N Sapoval, A Aghazadeh, MG Nute… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Deep Learning (DL) has recently enabled unprecedented advances in one of the grand
challenges in computational biology: the half-century-old problem of protein structure …

Machine learning and deep learning applications in microbiome research

R Hernández Medina, S Kutuzova… - ISME …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The many microbial communities around us form interactive and dynamic ecosystems called
microbiomes. Though concealed from the naked eye, microbiomes govern and influence …

Identification of mobile genetic elements with geNomad

AP Camargo, S Roux, F Schulz, M Babinski, Y Xu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Identifying and characterizing mobile genetic elements in sequencing data is essential for
understanding their diversity, ecology, biotechnological applications and impact on public …

Extending and improving metagenomic taxonomic profiling with uncharacterized species using MetaPhlAn 4

A Blanco-Míguez, F Beghini, F Cumbo, LJ McIver… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Metagenomic assembly enables new organism discovery from microbial communities, but it
can only capture few abundant organisms from most metagenomes. Here we present …

CheckM2: a rapid, scalable and accurate tool for assessing microbial genome quality using machine learning

A Chklovski, DH Parks, BJ Woodcroft, GW Tyson - Nature Methods, 2023 - nature.com
Advances in sequencing technologies and bioinformatics tools have dramatically increased
the recovery rate of microbial genomes from metagenomic data. Assessing the quality of …

Oxford Nanopore R10. 4 long-read sequencing enables the generation of near-finished bacterial genomes from pure cultures and metagenomes without short-read or …

M Sereika, RH Kirkegaard, SM Karst, TY Michaelsen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Long-read Oxford Nanopore sequencing has democratized microbial genome
sequencing and enables the recovery of highly contiguous microbial genomes from isolates …

A genome and gene catalog of glacier microbiomes

Y Liu, M Ji, T Yu, J Zaugg, AM Anesio, Z Zhang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Glaciers represent a unique inventory of microbial genetic diversity and a record of
evolution. The Tibetan Plateau contains the largest area of low-latitude glaciers and is …

A deep siamese neural network improves metagenome-assembled genomes in microbiome datasets across different environments

S Pan, C Zhu, XM Zhao, LP Coelho - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Metagenomic binning is the step in building metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs)
when sequences predicted to originate from the same genome are automatically grouped …

Centenarians have a diverse gut virome with the potential to modulate metabolism and promote healthy lifespan

J Johansen, K Atarashi, Y Arai, N Hirose… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Distinct gut microbiome ecology may be implicated in the prevention of aging-related
diseases as it influences systemic immune function and resistance to infections. Yet, the viral …

Discovery of drug–omics associations in type 2 diabetes with generative deep-learning models

RL Allesøe, AT Lundgaard, R Hernández Medina… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The application of multiple omics technologies in biomedical cohorts has the potential to
reveal patient-level disease characteristics and individualized response to treatment …