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2024

Solving genomic puzzles: computational methods for metagenomic binning

Vijini Mallawaarachchi, Anuradha Wickramarachchi, Hansheng Xue, Bhavya Papudeshi, Susanna R Grigson, George Bouras, Rosa E Prahl, Anubhav Kaphle, Andrey Verich, Berenice Talamantes-Becerra, Elizabeth A Dinsdale, Robert A Edwards (2024), Briefings in Bioinformatics

ICP – could there be a virus in the works?

Sarah K Giles, William M Hague, Robert A Edwards (2024), Obstetric Medicine

Hecatomb: an integrated software platform for viral metagenomics

Michael J Roach, Sarah J Beecroft, Kathie A Mihindukulasuriya, Leran Wang, Anne Paredes, Luis Alberto Chica Cárdenas, Kara Henry-Cocks, Lais Farias Oliveira Lima, Elizabeth A Dinsdale, Robert A Edwards, Scott A Handley (2024), GigaScience

Hybracter: enabling scalable, automated, complete and accurate bacterial genome assemblies

George Bouras, Ghais Houtak, Ryan R Wick, Vijini Mallawaarachchi, Michael J Roach, Bhavya Papudeshi, Louise M Judd, Anna E Sheppard, Robert A Edwards, Sarah Vreugde (2024), Microbial Genomics

Contigs directed gene annotation (ConDiGA) for accurate protein sequence database construction in metaproteomics

Enhui Wu, Vijini Mallawaarachchi, Jinzhi Zhao, Yi Yang, Hebin Liu, Xiaoqing Wang, Chengpin Shen, Yu Lin, Liang Qiao (2024), Microbiome

Encoding Unitig-level Assembly Graphs with Heterophilous Constraints for Metagenomic Contigs Binning

Hansheng Xue, Vijini Mallawaarachchi, Lexing Xie, Vaibhav Rajan (2024), Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Learning Representations

Koverage: Read-coverage analysis for massive (meta) genomics datasets

Michael J Roach, Bradley J Hart, Sarah J Beecroft, Bhavya Papudeshi, Laura K Inglis, Susanna R Grigson, Vijini Mallawaarachchi, George Bouras, Robert A Edwards (2024), Journal of Open Source Software

Prophages: an integral but understudied component of the human microbiome

Laura K. Inglis, Michael J. Roach, Robert A. Edwards (2024), Microbial Genomics

Dnaapler: A tool to reorient circular microbial genomes

George Bouras, Susanna R Grigson, Bhavya Papudeshi, Vijini Mallawaarachchi, Michael J Roach (2024), Journal of Open Source Software

2023

Knowing and Naming: Phage Annotation and Nomenclature for Phage Therapy

Susanna R Grigson, Sarah K Giles, Robert A Edwards, Bhavya Papudeshi (2023), Clinical Infectious Diseases

Phables: from fragmented assemblies to high-quality bacteriophage genomes

Vijini Mallawaarachchi, Michael J. Roach, Przemyslaw Decewicz, Bhavya Papudeshi, Sarah K. Giles, Susanna R. Grigson, George Bouras, Ryan D. Hesse, Laura K. Inglis, Abbey L. K. Hutton, Elizabeth A. Dinsdale, Robert A. Edwards (2023), Bioinformatics

Emergent community architecture despite distinct diversity in the global whale shark (Rhincodon typus) epidermal microbiome

Michael Doane, Michael B. Reed, JC McKerral, Laís Farias Oliveira Lima, Megan Morris, Asha Z. Goodman, Shaili Johri, Bhavya Papudeshi, Taylor Dillon, Abigail C. Turnlund … (2023), Scientific Reports

Coral and Seawater Metagenomes Reveal Key Microbial Functions to Coral Health and Ecosystem Functioning Shaped at Reef Scale

Laís FO Lima, Amanda T Alker, Bhavya Papudeshi, Megan M Morris, Robert A Edwards, Samantha J De Putron, Elizabeth A Dinsdale (2023), Environmental microbiology

Host Association and Spatial Proximity Shape but Do Not Constrain Population Structure in the Mutualistic Symbiont Xenorhabdus bovienii

Bhavya Papudeshi, Douglas B Rusch, David VanInsberghe, Curtis M Lively, Robert A Edwards, Farrah Bashey (2023), American Society for Microbiology

Stingray epidermal microbiomes are species-specific with local adaptations

Emma N Kerr, Bhavya Papudeshi, Miranda Haggerty, Natasha Wild, Asha Z Goodman, Lais FO Lima, Ryan D Hesse, Amber Skye, Vijini Mallawaarachchi, Shaili Johri, Sophia Parker, Elizabeth A Dinsdale (2023), Frontiers in Microbilogy

Defining marine bacterioplankton community assembly rules by contrasting the importance of environmental determinants and biotic interactions

Michael P Doane, Martin Ostrowski, Mark Brown, Anna Bramucci, Levente Bodrossy, Jodie van de Kamp, Andrew Bissett, Peter Steinberg, Martina A Doblin, Justin Seymour (2023), Environmental Microbiology

The Epidermal Microbiome Within an Aggregation of Leopard Sharks (Triakis semifasciata) Has Taxonomic Flexibility with Gene Functional Stability Across Three Time‑points

Michael P Doane, Colton J Johnson, Shaili Johri, Emma N Kerr, Megan M Morris, Ric Desantiago, Abigail C Turnlund, Asha Goodman, Maria Mora, Laís Farias Oliveira Lima, Andrew P Nosal, Elizabeth A Dinsdale (2023), Microbial ecology

The utility of dust for forensic intelligence: Exploring collection methods and detection limits for environmental DNA, elemental and mineralogical analyses of dust samples

Nicole R Foster, Belinda Martin, Jurian Hoogewerff, Michael G Aberle, Patrice de Caritat, Paul Roffey, Robert Edwards, Arif Malik, Priscilla Thwaites, Michelle Waycott, Jennifer Young (2023), Forensic Science International

Plassembler: an automated bacterial plasmid assembly tool

George Bouras, Anna E Sheppard, Vijini Mallawaarachchi, Sarah Vreugde (2023), Bioinformatics

Metaproteomics profiling of the microbial communities in fermentation starters (Daqu) during multi-round production of Chinese liquor

Jinzhi Zhao, Yi Yang, Mengjing Teng, Jianxujie Zheng, Bing Wang, Vijini Mallawaarachchi, Yu Lin, Ziyu Fang, Chengpin Shen, Shaoning Yu, Fan Yang, Liang Qiao, Li Wang (2023), Frontiers in Nutrition

Quantitative metaproteomics reveals composition and metabolism characteristics of microbial communities in Chinese liquor fermentation starters

Jinzhi Zhao, Yi Yang, Liangqiang Chen, Jianxujie Zheng, Xibin Lv, Dandan Li, Ziyu Fang, Chengpin Shen, Vijini Mallawaarachchi, Yu Lin, Shaoning Yu, Fan Yang, Li Wang, Liang Qiao (2023), Frontiers in Microbiology

Biogeochemical Processes and Microbial Dynamics Governing Phosphorus Retention and Release in Sediments: A Case Study in Lower Great Lakes Headwaters

Nicholas Falk, Ian G Droppo, Ken G Drouillard, Christopher G Weisener (2023), Environmental Management

What the protein!? Computational methods for predicting microbial protein functions

Susanna Grigson, Robert Edwards (2023), OSF Preprints

The Promise and Pitfalls of Prophages

Jody C. McKerral, Bhavya Papudeshi, Laura K. Inglis, Michael J. Roach, Przemyslaw Decewicz, Katelyn McNair, Antoni Luque, Elizabeth A. Dinsdale, Robert A. Edwards (2023), BioRxiv

Host interactions of novel Crassvirales species belonging to multiple families infecting bacterial host, Bacteroides cellulosilyticus WH2

Bhavya Papudeshi, Alejandro A. Vega, Cole Souza, Sarah K. Giles, Vijini Mallawaarachchi, Michael J. Roach, Michelle An, Nicole Jacobson, Katelyn McNair, Maria Fernanda Mora, Karina Pastrana, Lance Boling, Christopher Leigh, Clarice Harker, Will S. Plewa, Susanna R. Grigson, George Bouras, Przemysław Decewicz, Antoni Luque, Lindsay Droit, Scott A. Handley, David Wang, Anca M. Segall, Elizabeth A. Dinsdale, Robert A. Edwards (2023), Microbial Genomics

Emergent community architecture despite distinct diverity in the global whale shark (Rhincodon typus) epidermal micrbiome

Michael P Doane, Michael B Reed, Jody McKerral, Laís Farias Oliveira Lima, Megan Morris, Asha Z Goodman, Shaili Johri, Bhavya Papudeshi, Taylor Dillon, Abigail C Turnlund, Meredith Peterson, Maria Mora, Rafael de la Parra Venegas, Richard Pillans, Christoph A Rohner, Simon J Pierce, Christine G Legaspi, Gonzalo Araujo, Deni Ramirez-Macias, Robert A Edwards, Elizabeth A Dinsdale (2023), Scientific Reports

Heat-stressed coral microbiomes are stable and potentially beneficial at the level of taxa and functional genes

Laís Farias Oliveira Lima, Amanda Alker, Megan Morris, Robert Edwards, Samantha De Putron, Elizabeth Dinsdale (2023), [Authorea Preprints] (10.22541/au.167542930.03517639/v1){:target=”_blank”}

Compounding Achromobacter Phages for Therapeutic Applications

Ana Georgina Cobián Güemes, Tram Le, Maria Isabel Rojas, Nicole E Jacobson, Helena Villela, Katelyn McNair, Shr-Hau Hung, Lili Han, Lance Boling, Jessica Claire Octavio, Lorena Dominguez, Vito Adrian Cantú, Sinéad Archdeacon, Alejandro A Vega, Michelle A An, Hamza Hajama, Gregory Burkeen, Robert A Edwards, Douglas J Conrad, Forest Rohwer, Anca M Segall (2023), MDPI Viruses

Classification Confidence in Exploratory Learning: A User’s Guide

Peter Salamon, David Salamon, V Adrian Cantu, Michelle An, Tyler Perry, Robert A Edwards, Anca M Segall (2023), Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction

Guidelines for public database submission of uncultivated virus genome sequences for taxonomic classification

Evelien M Adriaenssens, Simon Roux, J Rodney Brister, Ilene Karsch-Mizrachi, Jens H Kuhn, Arvind Varsani, Tong Yigang, Alejandro Reyes, Cédric Lood, Elliot J Lefkowitz, Matthew B Sullivan, Robert A Edwards, Peter Simmonds, Luisa Rubino, Sead Sabanadzovic, Mart Krupovic, Bas E Dutilh (2023), Nature Biotechnology

PRFect: A tool to predict programmed ribosomal frameshifts in prokaryotic and viral genomes

Katelyn McNair, Peter Salamon, Robert A Edwards, Anca M Segall (2023), Research Square

Statement in Support of:“Virology under the Microscope—a Call for Rational Discourse”

Peter Speck, … Robert Edwards, … April Van Der Kamp, … (2023), ASM mBio

Confidence for exploratory machine learning

Peter Salamon, David Salamon, V Adrian Cantu, Michelle An, Tyler Perry, Robert A Edwards, Anca M Segall (2023), Biophysical Journal

Abolishment of morphology-based taxa and change to binomial species names: 2022 taxonomy update of the ICTV bacterial viruses subcommittee

Dann Turner, Andrey N Shkoporov, Cédric Lood, Andrew D Millard, Bas E Dutilh, Poliane Alfenas-Zerbini, Leonardo J van Zyl, Ramy K Aziz, Hanna M Oksanen, Minna M Poranen, Andrew M Kropinski, Jakub Barylski, J Rodney Brister, Nina Chanisvili, Rob A Edwards, François Enault, Annika Gillis, Petar Knezevic, Mart Krupovic, Ipek Kurtböke, Alla Kushkina, Rob Lavigne, Susan Lehman, Malgorzata Lobocka, Cristina Moraru, Andrea Moreno Switt, Vera Morozova, Jesca Nakavuma, Alejandro Reyes Muñoz, Jānis Rūmnieks, BL Sarkar, Matthew B Sullivan, Jumpei Uchiyama, Johannes Wittmann, Tong Yigang, Evelien M Adriaenssens (2023), Archives of Virology

Temperate gut phages are prevalent, diverse, and predominantly inactive

Sofia Dahlman, Laura Avellaneda-Franco, Ciaren Kett, Dinesh Subedi, Remy B Young, Jodee A Gould, Emily L Rutten, Emily L Gilliver, Christopher JR Turkington, Neda Nezam-Abadi, Juris A Grasis, Dena Lyras, Robert A Edwards, Samuel C Forster, Jeremy J Barr (2023), bioRxiv

Prophage rates in the human microbiome vary by body site and host health

Laura K Inglis, Michael J Roach, Robert A Edwards (2023), bioRxiv

2022

Epidermal Microbiomes of Leopard Sharks (Triakis semifasciata) Are Consistent across Captive and Wild Environments

Asha Z Goodman, Bhavya Papudeshi, Michael P Doane, Maria Mora, Emma Kerr, Melissa Torres, Jennifer Nero Moffatt, Lais Lima, Andrew P Nosal, Elizabeth Dinsdale (2022), Microorganisms

Win some, lose some: the ecophysiology of Porites astreoides as a key coral species to Caribbean reefs

Lima, LFO, H. Bursch and E. A. Dinsdale (2022), Frontiers in Marine Biology

Making change sustainable: Network for Integrating Bioinformatics into Life Sciences Education (NIBLSE) meeting review

Toby, I, Williams J, Lu G, Cai C, Crandall KA, Dinsdale EA, Drew J, Edgington NP, Goller CC, Grandgenett NF, Grant BJ, Hauser C, Johnson KA, Jones CJ, Jue NK, Jungck FR, Kerby J, Kleinschmit AJ, Miller KG, Morgan WR, Murdoch B, Noutsios G, Nunez-Castilla J, Pauley M, Pearson WR, Robertson SD, Robic S, Rosenwald A, Seah YM, Shofner M, Sierk M, Siltberg-Liberles J, Smith T, Stover NA, Tapprich W, Triplett EW, Ryder EF. (2022), CourseSource

Ten simple rules and a template for creating workflows-as-applications

Michael J Roach, N Tessa Pierce-Ward, Radoslaw Suchecki, Vijini Mallawaarachchi, Bhavya Papudeshi, Scott A Handley, C Titus Brown, Nathan S Watson-Haigh, Robert A Edwards (2022), Plos Comp. Biol.

Phage Diving: An Exploration of the Carcharhinid Shark Epidermal Virome

Ryan D Hesse, Michael Roach, Emma N Kerr, Bhavya Papudeshi, Laís FO Lima, Asha Z Goodman, Lisa Hoopes, Mark Scott, Lauren Meyer, Charlie Huveneers, Elizabeth A Dinsdale (2022), Viruses

Alyce M Martin, Michael Roach, Lauren A Jones, Daniel Thorpe, Rosemary A Coleman, Caitlin Allman, Robert Edwards, Damien J Keating (2022), Gut

Hecatomb: An End-to-End Research Platform for Viral Metagenomics

Michael Roach, Sarah Beecroft, Kathie A Mihindukulasuriya, Leran Wang, Lais Farias Oliveira Lima, Elizabeth A Dinsdale, Robert A Edwards, Scott A Handley (2022), BioRxiv

The StkSR Two-Component System Influences Colistin Resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii

Sarah K Giles, Uwe H Stroeher, Bhavya Papudeshi, Robert A Edwards, Jessica AP Carlson-Jones, Michael Roach, Melissa H Brown (2022), Microorganisms

The human gut virome: composition, colonization, interactions, and impacts on human health

Evan Pargin, Michael J Roach, Amber Skye, Bhavya Papudeshi, Laura K Inglis, Vijini Mallawaarachchi, Susanna R Grigson, Clarice Harker, Robert A Edwards, Sarah K Giles (2022), Frontiers in Microbiology

OligoFlow: rapid and sensitive virus quantification using flow cyomerty and oligonucleotide hybridization

James S Paterson, Lisa M Dann, Jessica Carlson-Jones, Sarah Giles, Connor McIvor, Peter G Speck, James G Mitchell (2022), bioRxiv

Epidermal Microbiomes of Leopard Sharks (Triakis semifasciata) Are Consistent across Captive and Wild Environments

Asha Z Goodman, Bhavya Papudeshi, Michael P Doane, Maria Mora, Emma Kerr, Melissa Torres, Jennifer Nero Moffatt, Lais Lima, Andrew P Nosal, Elizabeth Dinsdale (2022), Microorganisms

Analysis of rapid HIT application to touch DNA samples

Belinda Martin, Todd Kaesler, Adrian Linacre (2022), Journal of Forensic Sciences

The influences of dusty environments on the STR typing success of post-detonation touch DNA samples

Belinda Martin, Todd Kaesler, K Paul Kirkbride, Adrian Linacre (2022), Forensic Science International: Genetics

Exploring tapelifts as a method for dual workflow STR amplification

Belinda Martin, Duncan Taylor, Adrian Linacre (2022), Forensic Science International: Genetics

Accurate binning of metagenomic contigs using composition, coverage, and assembly graphs

Vijini Mallawaarachchi, Yu Lin (2022), Journal of Computational Biology

CH-Bin: A convex hull based approach for binning metagenomic contigs

Sunera Chandrasiri, Thumula Perera, Anjala Dilhara, Indika Perera, Vijini Mallawaarachchi (2022), Computational Biology and Chemistry

RepBin: Constraint-based graph representation learning for metagenomic binning

Hansheng Xue, Vijini Mallawaarachchi, Yujia Zhang, Vaibhav Rajan, Yu Lin (2022), Proceedings of the 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

MetaCoAG: Binning metagenomic contigs via composition, coverage and assembly graphs

Vijini Mallawaarachchi, Yu Lin (2022), International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology

Integrating microbial DNA community analyses into time-integrated suspended sediment sampling methods

Nicholas Falk, Ian G Droppo, Ken G Drouillard, Christopher G Weisener (2022), Journal of Soils and Sediments

Organizing the bacterial annotation space with amino acid sequence embeddings

Susanna R Grigson, Jody C McKerral, James G Mitchell, Robert A Edwards (2022), BMC bioinformatics

Isling: a tool for detecting integration of wild-type viruses and clinical vectors

Suzanne Scott, Claus V Hallwirth, Felix Hartkopf, Susanna Grigson, Yatish Jain, Ian E Alexander, Denis C Bauer, Laurence OW Wilson (2022), Journal of molecular biology

A bioinformatic pipeline for simulating viral integration data

Suzanne Scott, Susanna Grigson, Felix Hartkopf, Claus V Hallwirth, Ian E Alexander, Denis C Bauer, Laurence OW Wilson (2022), Data in Brief

How Metagenomics Has Transformed Our Understanding of Bacteriophages in Microbiome Research

Laura K. Inglis and Robert A. Edwards (2022), Microorganisms

Win some, lose some: The ecophysiology of Porites astreoides as a key coral species to Caribbean reefs

Lais FO Lima, Hayden Bursch, Elizabeth A Dinsdale (2022), Frontiers in Marince Science

Prophage rates in the human microbiome vary by body site and host health

Laura K Inglis, Michael J Roach, Robert A Edwards (2022), bioRxiv

Programmed ribosomal frameshifts, and how to find them

Katelyn McNair, Peter Salamon, Robert A Edwards, Anca M Segall (2022), bioRxiv

Towards the biogeography of butyrate-producing bacteria

Joel E Brame, Craig Liddicoat, Catherine A Abbott, Robert A Edwards, Jake M Robinson, Nicolas E Gauthier, Martin F Breed (2022), bioRxiv

Estimating Classification Confidence Using Kernel Densities

Peter Salamon, David Salamon, V Adrian Cantu, Michelle An, Tyler Perry, Robert A Edwards, Anca M Segall (2022), arXiv

Taxonomy proposal 2021: Abolish the order Caudovirales and the families Myoviridae, Siphoviridae and Podoviridae (Caudoviricetes)

Evelien Adriaenssens, Andrew M Kropinski, D Turner, Mart Krupovic, Andrew Millard, Bas E Dutilh, Hanna M Oksanen, Cedric Lood, Alejandro Reyes, Cristina Moraru, Ramy K Aziz, Tong Yigang, Jakub Barylski, Malgorzata Lobocka, BL Sarkar, Annika Gillis, Leonardo J van Zyl, Susan M Lehman, Matthew B Sullivan, Johannes Wittmann, Alla I Kushkina, Petar Knezevic, J Rodney Brister, Rob A Edwards, Ipek Kurtboke, Minna Poranen, Rob Lavigne, Andrey N Shkoporov, Jumpei Uchiyama, Andrea I Moreno Switt, François Enault (2022), ICTV Online: International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

Predicting the capsid architecture of phages from metagenomic data

Diana Y Lee, Caitlin Bartels, Katelyn McNair, Robert A Edwards, Manal A Swairjo, Antoni Luque (2022), Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal

2021

Philympics 2021: Prophage Predictions Perplex Programs

MJ Roach, K McNair, SK Giles, LK Inglis, E Pargin, S Roux, P Decewicz, RA Edwards (2021), F1000Research

No Evidence Known Viruses Play a Role in the Pathogenesis of Onchocerciasis-Associated Epilepsy. An Explorative Metagenomic Case-Control Study

M Roach, A Cantu, MK Vieri, M Cotten, P Kellam, M Phan, L Hoek, M Mandro, F Tepage, G Mambandu, G Musinya, A Laudisoit, R Colebunders, R Edwards, JL Mokili (2021), Pathogens

Epidermal Microbiomes of Triakis semifasciata Are Consistent across Captive and Wild Environments

Asha Goodman, Bhavya Papudeshi, Michael P Doane, Colton Johnson, Maria Mora, Emma Kerr, Melissa Torres, Jennifer Nero, Laís Lima, Andrew P Nosel, Elizabeth A Dinsdale (2021), Research square

Elasmobranch microbiomes: emerging patterns and implications for host health and ecology

Cameron T Perry, Zoe A Pratte, Ana Clavere-Graciette, Kim B Ritchie, Robert E Hueter, Alisa L Newton, G Christopher Fischer, Elizabeth A Dinsdale, Michael P Doane, Krystan A Wilkinson, Kim Bassos-Hull, Kady Lyons, Alistair DM Dove, Lisa A Hoopes, Frank J Stewart (2021), Animal Microbiome

Reducing Data Deficiencies: Preliminary Elasmobranch Fisheries Surveys in India, Identify Range Extensions and Large Proportions of Female and Juvenile Landings

Shaili Johri, Isabella Livingston, Anjani Tiwari, Jitesh Solanki, Anissa Busch, Isabel Moreno, Sam R. Fellows, Michael P Doane, Elizabeth A Dinsdale (2021), Frontiers in Marine Science

Exploring the taxonomical and functional profile of As Burgas hot spring focusing on thermostable β-galactosidases

María-Eugenia DeCastro, Michael P Doane, Elizabeth Ann Dinsdale, Esther Rodríguez-Belmonte, María-Isabel González-Siso (2021), Scientific Reports

Comparison of six commercially available STR kits for their application to touch DNA using direct PCR

Belinda Martin, Duncan Taylor, Adrian Linacre (2021), Forensic Science International: Reports

How many cells are required for successful DNA profiling?

Piyamas Kanokwongnuwut, Belinda Martin, Duncan Taylor, K Paul Kirkbride, Adrian Linacre (2021), Forensic Science International: Genetics

Evaluating sediment phosphorus exchange in rural Ontario headwaters by paired sequential extraction and sorption isotherms

Nicholas Falk, Matthew Day, Christopher G Weisener (2021), Water, Air, & Soil Pollution

Synergetic impacts of turbulence and fishing reduce ocean biomass

Jody C McKerral, Justin R Seymour, Trish J Lavery, Paul J Rogers, Thomas C Jeffries, James S Paterson, Ben Roudnew, Charlie Huveneers, Kelly Newton, Virginie van Dongen-Vogels, Nardi P Cribb, Karina M Winn, Renee J Smith, Crystal L Beckmann, Eloise Prime, Claire M Charlton, Maria Kleshnina, Susanna R Grigson, Marika Takeuchi, Laurent Seuront, James G Mitchell (2021), bioRxiv

There Is More than Multiple Choice: Crowd-Sourced Assessment Tips for Online, Hybrid, and Face-to-Face Environments

Jennifer C. Drew, Neal Grandgenett, Elizabeth A. Dinsdale, Luis E. Vázquez Quiñones, Sebastian Galindo, William R. Morgan, Mark Pauley, Anne Rosenwald, Eric W. Triplett, William Tapprich, Adam J. Kleinschmit, ASM Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education

Perspective on taxonomic classification of uncultivated viruses

Bas E Dutilh, Arvind Varsani, Yigang Tong, Peter Simmonds, Sead Sabanadzovic, Luisa Rubino, Simon Roux, Alejandro Reyes Munoz, Cédric Lood, Elliot J Lefkowitz, Jens H Kuhn, Mart Krupovic, Robert A Edwards, J Rodney Brister, Evelien M Adriaenssens, Matthew B Sullivan, Current Opinion in Virology

Bacterial Viruses Subcommittee and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee of the ICTV: update of taxonomy changes in 2021

Mart Krupovic, Dann Turner, Vera Morozova, Mike Dyall-Smith, Hanna M Oksanen, Rob Edwards, Bas E Dutilh, Susan M Lehman, Alejandro Reyes, Diana P Baquero, Matthew B Sullivan, Jumpei Uchiyama, Jesca Nakavuma, Jakub Barylski, Mark J Young, Shishen Du, Poliane Alfenas-Zerbini, Alla Kushkina, Andrew M Kropinski, Ipek Kurtböke, J Rodney Brister, Cédric Lood, BL Sarkar, Tong Yigang, Ying Liu, Li Huang, Johannes Wittmann, Nina Chanishvili, Leonardo J van Zyl, Janis Rumnieks, Tomohiro Mochizuki, Matti Jalasvuori, Ramy K Aziz, Małgorzata Łobocka, Kenneth M Stedman, Andrey N Shkoporov, Annika Gillis, Xu Peng, François Enault, Petar Knezevic, Rob Lavigne, Sung-Keun Rhee, Virginija Cvirkaite-Krupovic, Cristina Moraru, Andrea I Moreno Switt, Minna M Poranen, Andrew Millard, David Prangishvili, Evelien M Adriaenssens, Archives in Virology

hafeZ: active prophage identification through read mapping

Christopher JR Turkington, Neda Nezam Abadi, Robert A Edwards, Juris A Grasis, bioRxiv

RaFAH: Host prediction for viruses of Bacteria and Archaea based on protein content

Felipe Hernandes Coutinho, Asier Zaragoza-Solas, Mario López-Pérez, Jakub Barylski, Andrzej Zielezinski, Bas E Dutilh, Robert Edwards, Francisco Rodriguez-Valera, Cell Press Patterns

MultiPhATE2: code for functional annotation and comparison of phage genomes

Carol L Ecale Zhou, Jeffrey Kimbrel, Robert Edwards, Katelyn McNair, Brian A Souza, Stephanie Malfatti, Oxford G3

Gut microbiota represent a major thermogenic biomass

Ruth A Riedl, Colin ML Burnett, Nicole A Pearson, John J Reho, Mohamad Mokadem, Robert A Edwards, Tammy L Kindel, John R Kirby, Justin L Grobe, Function

A novel group of promiscuous podophages infecting diverse gammaproteobacteria from river communities exhibits dynamic intergenus host adaptation

Daniel Cazares, Adrian Cazares, Wendy Figueroa, Gabriel Guarneros, Robert A Edwards, Pablo Vinuesa, Msystems

Utilizing amino acid composition and entropy of potential open reading frames to identify protein-coding genes

Katelyn McNair, Carol L Ecale Zhou, Brian Souza, Stephanie Malfatti, Robert A Edwards, Microorganisms

NCBI’s virus discovery codeathon: building “FIVE”—The Federated Index of Viral Experiments API index

Joan Martí-Carreras, Alejandro Rafael Gener, Sierra D Miller, Anderson F Brito, Christiam E Camacho, Ryan Connor, Ward Deboutte, Cody Glickman, David M Kristensen, Wynn K Meyer, Sejal Modha, Alexis L Norris, Surya Saha, Anna K Belford, Evan Biederstedt, James Rodney Brister, Jan P Buchmann, Nicholas P Cooley, Robert A Edwards, Kiran Javkar, Michael Muchow, Harihara Subrahmaniam Muralidharan, Charles Pepe-Ranney, Nidhi Shah, Migun Shakya, Michael J Tisza, Benjamin J Tully, Bert Vanmechelen, Valerie C Virta, Jake L Weissman, Vadim Zalunin, Alexandre Efremov, Ben Busby, MDPI Viruses

Adaptive evolution of sulfite tolerance in Brettanomyces bruxellensis

Caroline Bartel, Michael Roach, Cristobal Onetto, Chris Curtin, Cristian Varela, Anthony Borneman (2021), FEMS Yeast Research

2020

The microbial abundance dynamics of the paediatric oral cavity before and after sleep

Jessica AP Carlson-Jones, Anna Kontos, Declan Kennedy, James Martin, Kurt Lushington, Jody McKerral, James S Paterson, Renee J Smith, Lisa M Dann, Peter Speck, James G Mitchell (2020), Journal of oral microbiology

The skin microbiome of elasmobranchs follows phylosymbiosis, but in teleost fishes, the microbiomes converge

Michael P Doane, Megan M Morris, Bhavya Papudeshi, Lauren Allen, Dnyanada Pande, John M Haggerty, Shaili Johri, Abigail C Turnlund, Meredith Peterson, Dovi Kacev, Andy Nosal, Deni Ramirez, Kevin Hovel, Julia Ledbetter, Amanda Alker, Jackeline Avalos, Kristi Baker, Shruti Bhide, Emma Billings, Steven Byrum, Molly Clemens, Amelia Juliette Demery, Lais Farias Oliveira Lima, Oscar Gomez, Omar Gutierrez, Selena Hinton, Donald Kieu, Angie Kim, Rebeca Loaiza, Alexander Martinez, Jordan McGhee, Kristine Nguyen, Sabrina Parlan, Amanda Pham, Rosalyn Price-Waldman, Robert A Edwards, Elizabeth A Dinsdale, BMC Microbiome

Modeling of the coral microbiome: the influence of temperature and microbial network

Laís FO Lima, Maya Weissman, Micheal Reed, Bhavya Papudeshi, Amanda T Alker, Megan M Morris, Robert A Edwards, Samantha J de Putron, Naveen K Vaidya, Elizabeth A Dinsdale, ASM mBio

Genomic and ecological attributes of marine bacteriophages encoding bacterial virulence genes

Cynthia B Silveira, Felipe H Coutinho, Giselle S Cavalcanti, Sean Benler, Michael P Doane, Elizabeth A Dinsdale, Robert A Edwards, Ronaldo B Francini-Filho, Cristiane C Thompson, Antoni Luque, Forest L Rohwer, Fabiano Thompson, BMC Genomics

Latitude and chlorophyll a density drive the distribution of carbohydrate‐active enzymes in the planktonic microbial fraction of the epipelagic zone

Michael Doane, John Matthew Haggerty, Cleanto Rodrigo da Silva Lopes, Peter Yates, Rob Edwards, Elizabeth Dinsdale, Fabyano Alvares Cardoso Lopes, Thiago Bruce, Environmental Microbiology Reports

Mitochondrial genome of the silky shark Carcharhinus falciformis from the British Indian Ocean Territory Marine Protected Area

Shaili Johri, Taylor K Chapple, Elizabeth A Dinsdale, Robert Schallert, Barbara A Block, Mitochondrial DNA Part B

Complete mitochondrial genome of the whitetip reef shark Triaenodon obesus from the British Indian Ocean Territory Marine Protected Area

Shaili Johri, Taylor K Chapple, Robert Schallert, Elizabeth A Dinsdale, Barbara A Block, Mitochondrial DNA Part B

Complete mitochondrial genome of the gray reef shark, Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos (Carcharhiniformes: Carcharhinidae)

Nicholas Dunn, Shaili Johri, David Curnick, Chris Carbone, Elizabeth A Dinsdale, Taylor K Chapple, Barbara A Block, Vincent Savolainen, Mitochondrial DNA Part B

Mitochondrial genome of the Smoothnose wedgefish Rhynchobatus laevis from the Western Indian Ocean

Shaili Johri, Anjani Tiwari, Emma N Kerr, Elizabeth A Dinsdale, Mitochondrial DNA Part B

Mitochondrial genome of the Silvertip shark, Carcharhinus albimarginatus, from the British Indian Ocean Territory

Shaili Johri, Nicholas Dunn, Taylor K Chapple, David Curnick, Vincent Savolainen, Elizabeth A Dinsdale, Barbara A Block, Mitochondrial DNA Part B

Incubators: Building community networks and developing open educational resources to integrate bioinformatics into life science education

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