Common principles and best practices for engineering microbiomes

CE Lawson, WR Harcombe, R Hatzenpichler… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Despite broad scientific interest in harnessing the power of Earth's microbiomes, knowledge
gaps hinder their efficient use for addressing urgent societal and environmental challenges …

Reconstructing organisms in silico: genome-scale models and their emerging applications

X Fang, CJ Lloyd, BO Palsson - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2020 - nature.com
Escherichia coli is considered to be the best-known microorganism given the large number
of published studies detailing its genes, its genome and the biochemical functions of its …

dbCAN3: automated carbohydrate-active enzyme and substrate annotation

J Zheng, Q Ge, Y Yan, X Zhang, L Huang… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Carbohydrate active enzymes (CAZymes) are made by various organisms for complex
carbohydrate metabolism. Genome mining of CAZymes has become a routine data analysis …

The IMG/M data management and analysis system v. 7: content updates and new features

IMA Chen, K Chu, K Palaniappan, A Ratner… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes system (IMG/M: https://img. jgi.
doe. gov/m/) at the Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) continues to …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-scale metabolic reconstruction of 7,302 human microorganisms for personalized medicine

A Heinken, J Hertel, G Acharya, DA Ravcheev… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The human microbiome influences the efficacy and safety of a wide variety of commonly
prescribed drugs. Designing precision medicine approaches that incorporate microbial …

[HTML][HTML] iPHoP: An integrated machine learning framework to maximize host prediction for metagenome-derived viruses of archaea and bacteria

S Roux, AP Camargo, FH Coutinho, SM Dabdoub… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The extraordinary diversity of viruses infecting bacteria and archaea is now primarily studied
through metagenomics. While metagenomes enable high-throughput exploration of the viral …

[HTML][HTML] A genomic catalog of Earth's microbiomes

S Nayfach, S Roux, R Seshadri, D Udwary… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The reconstruction of bacterial and archaeal genomes from shotgun metagenomes has
enabled insights into the ecology and evolution of environmental and host-associated …

Community-led, integrated, reproducible multi-omics with anvi'o

AM Eren, E Kiefl, A Shaiber, I Veseli, SE Miller… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Big data abound in microbiology, but the workflows designed to enable researchers to
interpret data can constrain the biological questions that can be asked. Five years after …

The IMG/M data management and analysis system v. 6.0: new tools and advanced capabilities

IMA Chen, K Chu, K Palaniappan, A Ratner… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes system (IMG/M: https://img. jgi.
doe. gov/m/) contains annotated isolate genome and metagenome datasets sequenced at …

GTDB-Tk: a toolkit to classify genomes with the Genome Taxonomy Database

PA Chaumeil, AJ Mussig, P Hugenholtz, DH Parks - 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Summary The Genome Taxonomy Database Toolkit (GTDB-Tk) provides objective
taxonomic assignments for bacterial and archaeal genomes based on the GTDB. GTDB-Tk …