The development and continuous improvement of high-throughput sequencing platforms
have stimulated interest in the study of complex microbial communities. Currently, the most …

A decade after environmental scientists integrated high‐throughput sequencing
technologies in their toolbox, the genomics‐based monitoring of anthropogenic impacts on …

Nucleotide sequence and taxonomy reference databases are critical resources for
widespread applications including marker-gene and metagenome sequencing for …

Next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies have led to a ubiquity of molecular
sequence data. This data avalanche is particularly challenging in metagenetics, which …

Understanding the evolutionary background of a bacterial isolate has applications for a wide
range of research. However generating an accurate species phylogeny remains …

Assessment of biodiversity using metabarcoding data, such as from bulk or environmental
DNA sampling, is becoming increasingly relevant in ecology, biodiversity sciences and …

We present genesis, a library for working with phylogenetic data, and gappa, an
accompanying command-line tool for conducting typical analyses on such data. The tools …

What enables strains of the same species to coexist in a microbiome? Here, we investigate
whether host anatomy can explain strain co-residence of Cutibacterium acnes, the most …

Trap-based surveillance strategies are widely used for monitoring of invasive insect species,
aiming to detect newly arrived exotic taxa as well as track the population levels of …

High animal and plant richness in tropical rainforest communities has long intrigued
naturalists. It is unknown if similar hyperdiversity patterns are reflected at the microbial scale …