The human microbiome is composed of a collection of dynamic microbial communities that
inhabit various anatomical locations in the body. Accordingly, the coevolution of the …

Although there is now an extensive understanding of the diversity of microbial life on earth
through culture-independent metagenomic DNA sequence analyses, the isolation and …

Global environmental contamination with a complex mixture of xenobiotics has become a
major environmental issue worldwide. Many xenobiotic compounds severely impact the …

Sequencing-based analyses of microbiomes have traditionally focused on addressing the
question of community membership and profiling taxonomic abundance through amplicon …

Short-read, high-throughput sequencing (HTS) methods have yielded numerous important
insights into microbial ecology and function. Yet, in many instances short-read HTS …

Soil microorganisms carry out important processes, including support of plant growth and
cycling of carbon and other nutrients. However, the majority of soil microbes have not yet …

Genomes are an integral component of the biological information about an organism; thus,
the more complete the genome, the more informative it is. Historically, bacterial and …

The numbers and diversity of microbes in ecosystems within and around us is unmatched,
yet most of these microorganisms remain recalcitrant to in vitro cultivation. Various high …

Soil is known to harbor viruses, but the majority are uncharacterized and their responses to
environmental changes are unknown. Here, we used a multi-omics approach …

Metagenomic samples are snapshots of complex ecosystems at work. They comprise
hundreds of known and unknown species, contain multiple strain variants and vary greatly …