Large-scale investigation for antimicrobial activity reveals novel defensive species across the healthy skin microbiome

UT Nguyen, R Salamzade, S Sandstrom, MH Swaney… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The human skin microbiome constitutes a dynamic barrier that can impede pathogen
invasion by producing antimicrobial natural products. Gene clusters encoding for production …

[HTML][HTML] skDER: microbial genome dereplication approaches for comparative and metagenomic applications

R Salamzade, LR Kalan - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract skDER (https://github. com/raufs/skDER) combines recent advances to efficiently
estimate average nucleotide identity (ANI) between thousands of microbial genomes by …