Best practices for analysing microbiomes

R Knight, A Vrbanac, BC Taylor, A Aksenov… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Complex microbial communities shape the dynamics of various environments, ranging from
the mammalian gastrointestinal tract to the soil. Advances in DNA sequencing technologies …

Metagenomics approaches for the detection and surveillance of emerging and recurrent plant pathogens

E Piombo, A Abdelfattah, S Droby, M Wisniewski… - Microorganisms, 2021 - mdpi.com
Globalization has a dramatic effect on the trade and movement of seeds, fruits and
vegetables, with a corresponding increase in economic losses caused by the introduction of …

ATLAS: a Snakemake workflow for assembly, annotation, and genomic binning of metagenome sequence data

S Kieser, J Brown, EM Zdobnov, M Trajkovski… - BMC …, 2020 - Springer
Background Metagenomics studies provide valuable insight into the composition and
function of microbial populations from diverse environments; however, the data processing …

Sunbeam: an extensible pipeline for analyzing metagenomic sequencing experiments

EL Clarke, LJ Taylor, C Zhao, A Connell, JJ Lee, B Fett… - Microbiome, 2019 - Springer
Background Analysis of mixed microbial communities using metagenomic sequencing
experiments requires multiple preprocessing and analytical steps to interpret the microbial …

High functional diversity among Nitrospira populations that dominate rotating biological contactor microbial communities in a municipal wastewater treatment plant

E Spasov, JM Tsuji, LA Hug, AC Doxey… - The ISME …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Nitrification, the oxidation of ammonia to nitrate via nitrite, is an important process in
municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). Members of the Nitrospira genus that …

Cultivation-independent and cultivation-dependent metagenomes reveal genetic and enzymatic potential of microbial community involved in the degradation of a …

OYA Costa, M De Hollander, A Pijl, B Liu, EE Kuramae - Microbiome, 2020 - Springer
Background Cultivation-independent methods, including metagenomics, are tools for the
exploration and discovery of biotechnological compounds produced by microbes in natural …

Disentangling the drivers of functional complexity at the metagenomic level in Shark Bay microbial mat microbiomes

HL Wong, RA White III, PT Visscher… - The ISME …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The functional metagenomic potential of Shark Bay microbial mats was examined for the first
time at a millimeter scale, employing shotgun sequencing of communities via the Illumina …

iVikodak—A platform and standard workflow for inferring, analyzing, comparing, and visualizing the functional potential of microbial communities

S Nagpal, MM Haque, R Singh, SS Mande - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Background: The objectives of any metagenomic study typically include identification of
resident microbes and their relative proportions (taxonomic analysis), profiling functional …

Disentangling the complexity of permafrost soil by using high resolution profiling of microbial community composition, key functions and respiration rates

O Müller, T Bang‐Andreasen… - Environmental …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Thawing permafrost can stimulate microbial activity, leading to faster decomposition of
formerly preserved organic matter and CO2 release. Detailed knowledge about the vertical …

Genomics as a potential tool to unravel the rhizosphere microbiome interactions on plant health

P Priya, B Aneesh, K Harikrishnan - Journal of Microbiological Methods, 2021 - Elsevier
Intense agricultural practices to meet rising food demands have caused ecosystem
perturbations. For sustainable crop production, biological agents are gaining attention, but …