Sequencing and beyond: integrating molecular'omics' for microbial community profiling

EA Franzosa, T Hsu, A Sirota-Madi… - Nature Reviews …, 2015 - nature.com
High-throughput DNA sequencing has proven invaluable for investigating diverse
environmental and host-associated microbial communities. In this Review, we discuss …

Synthetic ecology of microbes: mathematical models and applications

AR Zomorrodi, D Segrè - Journal of molecular biology, 2016 - Elsevier
As the indispensable role of natural microbial communities in many aspects of life on Earth
is uncovered, the bottom-up engineering of synthetic microbial consortia with novel functions …

Unraveling the functional dark matter through global metagenomics

GA Pavlopoulos, FA Baltoumas, S Liu, O Selvitopi… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Metagenomes encode an enormous diversity of proteins, reflecting a multiplicity of functions
and activities,. Exploration of this vast sequence space has been limited to a comparative …

Deep sequencing of the oral microbiome reveals signatures of periodontal disease

B Liu, LL Faller, N Klitgord, V Mazumdar, M Ghodsi… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
The oral microbiome, the complex ecosystem of microbes inhabiting the human mouth,
harbors several thousands of bacterial types. The proliferation of pathogenic bacteria within …

The methylomes of six bacteria

IA Murray, TA Clark, RD Morgan, M Boitano… - Nucleic acids …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Six bacterial genomes, Geobacter metallireducens GS-15, Chromohalobacter salexigens,
Vibrio breoganii 1C-10, Bacillus cereus ATCC 10987, Campylobacter jejuni subsp. jejuni 81 …

The y-ome defines the 35% of Escherichia coli genes that lack experimental evidence of function

S Ghatak, ZA King, A Sastry… - Nucleic acids research, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Experimental studies of Escherichia coli K-12 MG1655 often implicate poorly annotated
genes in cellular phenotypes. However, we lack a systematic understanding of these genes …

The 2012 nucleic acids research database issue and the online molecular biology database collection

MY Galperin, XM Fernández-Suarez - Nucleic acids research, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The 19th annual Database Issue of Nucleic Acids Research features descriptions of
92 new online databases covering various areas of molecular biology and 100 papers …

The other face of restriction: modification-dependent enzymes

WAM Loenen, EA Raleigh - Nucleic acids research, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The 1952 observation of host-induced non-hereditary variation in bacteriophages by
Salvador Luria and Mary Human led to the discovery in the 1960s of modifying enzymes that …

EcoGene 3.0

J Zhou, KE Rudd - Nucleic acids research, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Abstract EcoGene (http://ecogene. org) is a database and website devoted to continuously
improving the structural and functional annotation of Escherichia coli K-12, one of the most …

Progress and opportunities in microbial community metabolomics

A Bhosle, Y Wang, EA Franzosa… - Current Opinion in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•Microbiome-associated metabolite pools aid discovery of novel functions.•Guilt-
by-association approaches identify microbial derivatives of standard metabolites.•Machine …