Microbial communities often exhibit incredible taxonomic diversity, raising questions
regarding the mechanisms enabling species coexistence and the role of this diversity in …

Marine dissolved organic matter (DOM) contains more carbon than the combined stocks of
Earth's biota. Organisms in the ocean continuously release a myriad of molecules that …

Natural microbial communities are phylogenetically and metabolically diverse. In addition to
underexplored organismal groups, this diversity encompasses a rich discovery potential for …

Abstract PHASTER (PHAge Search Tool–Enhanced Release) is a significant upgrade to the
popular PHAST web server for the rapid identification and annotation of prophage …

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

Genome-level evolutionary inference (ie phylogenomics) is becoming an increasingly
essential step in many biologists' work. Accordingly, there are several tools available for the …

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

The open-source de novo protein-level assembler, Plass (https://plass. mmseqs. com),
assembles six-frame-translated sequencing reads into protein sequences. It recovers 2–10 …

Recent advances in studying the dynamics of marine microbial communities have shown
that the composition of these communities follows predictable patterns and involves complex …

Cyanobacteria are photosynthetic prokaryotes that inhabit diverse aquatic and terrestrial
environments. However, the evolutionary mechanisms involved in the cyanobacterial habitat …