A renaissance for the pioneering 16S rRNA gene

SG Tringe, P Hugenholtz - Current opinion in microbiology, 2008 - Elsevier
Culture-independent molecular surveys using the 16S rRNA gene have become a mainstay
for characterizing microbial community structure over the past quarter century. More recently …

Current opportunities and challenges in microbial metagenome analysis—a bioinformatic perspective

H Teeling, FO Glöckner - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Metagenomics has become an indispensable tool for studying the diversity and metabolic
potential of environmental microbes, whose bulk is as yet non-cultivable. Continual progress …

Substrate-controlled succession of marine bacterioplankton populations induced by a phytoplankton bloom

H Teeling, BM Fuchs, D Becher, C Klockow… - Science, 2012 - science.org
Phytoplankton blooms characterize temperate ocean margin zones in spring. We
investigated the bacterioplankton response to a diatom bloom in the North Sea and …

Competitive and cooperative metabolic interactions in bacterial communities

S Freilich, R Zarecki, O Eilam, ES Segal… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
Revealing the ecological principles that shape communities is a major challenge of the post-
genomic era. To date, a systematic approach for describing inter-species interactions has …

The environment ontology: contextualising biological and biomedical entities

PL Buttigieg, N Morrison, B Smith, CJ Mungall… - Journal of biomedical …, 2013 - Springer
As biological and biomedical research increasingly reference the environmental context of
the biological entities under study, the need for formalisation and standardisation of …

The Genomes On Line Database (GOLD) in 2009: status of genomic and metagenomic projects and their associated metadata

K Liolios, IMA Chen, K Mavromatis… - Nucleic acids …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
The G enomes O n L ine D atabase (GOLD) is a comprehensive resource for centralized
monitoring of genome and metagenome projects worldwide. Both complete and ongoing …

The Earth Microbiome Project: Meeting report of the “1st EMP meeting on sample selection and acquisition” at Argonne National Laboratory October 6th 2010

JA Gilbert, F Meyer, J Jansson, J Gordon… - Standards in genomic …, 2010 - Springer
This report details the outcome the first meeting of the Earth Microbiome Project to discuss
sample selection and acquisition. The meeting, held at the Argonne National Laboratory on …

Accelerating the digitization of biodiversity research specimens through online public participation

ER Ellwood, BA Dunckel, P Flemons, R Guralnick… - …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
A goal of the biodiversity research community is to digitize the majority of the one billion
specimens in US collections by 2020. Meeting this ambitious goal requires increased …

Bacterial community comparisons by taxonomy-supervised analysis independent of sequence alignment and clustering

WJ Sul, JR Cole, EC Jesus, Q Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
High-throughput sequencing of 16S rRNA genes has increased our understanding of
microbial community structure, but now even higher-throughput methods to the Illumina …

Advancing the microbiome research community

C Huttenhower, R Knight, CT Brown, JG Caporaso… - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
The human microbiome has become a recognized factor in promoting and maintaining
health. We outline opportunities in interdisciplinary research, analytical rigor …