Mash extends the MinHash dimensionality-reduction technique to include a pairwise
mutation distance and P value significance test, enabling the efficient clustering and search …

DNA barcoding has had a major impact on biodiversity science. The elegant simplicity of
establishing massive scale databases for a few barcode loci is continuing to change our …

Marine microbes have tremendous diversity, but a fundamental question remains
unanswered: why are there so many microbial species in the sea? The idea of functional …

Background Microbial inhabitants of soils are important to ecosystem and planetary
functions, yet there are large gaps in our knowledge of their diversity and ecology. The …

Background Long-read sequencing technologies were launched a few years ago, and in
contrast with short-read sequencing technologies, they offered a promise of solving …

The study of microbial communities crucially relies on the comparison of metagenomic next-
generation sequencing data sets, for which several methods have been designed in recent …

Genetic tools are increasingly used to identify and discriminate between species. One key
transition in this process was the recognition of the potential of the ca 658bp fragment of the …

Motivation Scientists increasingly rely on intelligent information systems to help them in their
daily tasks, in particular for managing research objects, like publications or datasets. The …

Metagenomic sequencing is becoming widespread in biomedical and environmental
research, and the pace is increasing even more thanks to nanopore sequencing. With a …

Background Large scale metagenomic projects aim to extract biodiversity knowledge
between different environmental conditions. Current methods for comparing microbial …