The genomic revolution has fundamentally changed how we survey biodiversity on earth.
High‐throughput sequencing (“HTS”) platforms now enable the rapid sequencing of DNA …

Correlation and association analyses are one of the most widely used statistical methods in
research fields, including microbiome and integrative multiomics studies. Correlation and …

Background Bacteria within family S24-7 (phylum Bacteroidetes) are dominant in the mouse
gut microbiota and detected in the intestine of other animals. Because they had not been …

DNA metabarcoding is promising for cost-effective biodiversity monitoring, but reliable
diversity estimates are difficult to achieve and validate. Here we present and validate a …

Motivation In recent years, molecular species delimitation has become a routine approach
for quantifying and classifying biodiversity. Barcoding methods are of particular importance …

Low-input agricultural systems aim at reducing the use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides
in order to improve sustainable production and ecosystem health. Despite the integral role of …

Motivation: Sequence-based methods to delimit species are central to DNA taxonomy,
microbial community surveys and DNA metabarcoding studies. Current approaches either …

Because many animal species are undescribed, and because the identification of known
species is often difficult, interim taxonomic nomenclature has often been used in biodiversity …

Documenting the diversity of marine life is challenging because many species are cryptic,
small, and rare, and belong to poorly known groups. New sequencing technologies …

Sequence clustering is a basic bioinformatics task that is attracting renewed attention with
the development of metagenomics and microbiomics. The latest sequencing techniques …