The core human microbiome: does it exist and how can we find it? A critical review of the concept

I Sharon, NM Quijada, E Pasolli, M Fabbrini, F Vitali… - Nutrients, 2022 - mdpi.com
The core microbiome, which refers to a set of consistent microbial features across
populations, is of major interest in microbiome research and has been addressed by …

Metagenomic approaches to analyze antimicrobial resistance: an overview

VAC De Abreu, J Perdigão, S Almeida - Frontiers in genetics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Antimicrobial resistance is a major global public health problem, which develops when
pathogens acquire antimicrobial resistance genes (ARGs), primarily through genetic …

Evaluation of taxonomic classification and profiling methods for long-read shotgun metagenomic sequencing datasets

DM Portik, CT Brown, NT Pierce-Ward - BMC bioinformatics, 2022 - Springer
Background Long-read shotgun metagenomic sequencing is gaining in popularity and offers
many advantages over short-read sequencing. The higher information content in long reads …

From defaults to databases: parameter and database choice dramatically impact the performance of metagenomic taxonomic classification tools

RJ Wright, AM Comeau… - Microbial Genomics, 2023 - microbiologyresearch.org
In metagenomic analyses of microbiomes, one of the first steps is usually the taxonomic
classification of reads by comparison to a database of previously taxonomically classified …

Landfill microbiome harbour plastic degrading genes: A metagenomic study of solid waste dumping site of Gujarat, India

R Kumar, P Pandit, D Kumar, Z Patel, L Pandya… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Globally, environmental pollution by plastic waste has become a severe ecological and
social problem worldwide. The present study aimed to analyse the bacterial community …

Deep learning of a bacterial and archaeal universal language of life enables transfer learning and illuminates microbial dark matter

A Hoarfrost, A Aptekmann, G Farfañuk… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The majority of microbial genomes have yet to be cultured, and most proteins identified in
microbial genomes or environmental sequences cannot be functionally annotated. As a …

Statistical and machine learning techniques in human microbiome studies: contemporary challenges and solutions

I Moreno-Indias, L Lahti, M Nedyalkova… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The human microbiome has emerged as a central research topic in human biology and
biomedicine. Current microbiome studies generate high-throughput omics data across …

Complex marine microbial communities partition metabolism of scarce resources over the diel cycle

D Muratore, AK Boysen, MJ Harke, KW Becker… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
Complex assemblages of microbes in the surface ocean are responsible for approximately
half of global carbon fixation. The persistence of high taxonomic diversity despite …

Bacteroides abundance drives birth mode dependent infant gut microbiota developmental trajectories

D Matharu, AJ Ponsero, E Dikareva, K Korpela… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background and aims Birth mode and other early life factors affect a newborn's microbial
colonization with potential long-term health effects. Individual variations in early life gut …

metaGOflow: a workflow for the analysis of marine Genomic Observatories shotgun metagenomics data

H Zafeiropoulos, M Beracochea, S Ninidakis… - …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background Genomic Observatories (GOs) are sites of long-term scientific study
that undertake regular assessments of the genomic biodiversity. The European Marine …