Lessons learnt from the COVID-19 pandemic include increased awareness of the potential
for zoonoses and emerging infectious diseases that can adversely affect human health …

Sequencing-based analyses of microbiomes have traditionally focused on addressing the
question of community membership and profiling taxonomic abundance through amplicon …

Abstract Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) combined with powerful bioinformatic
approaches are revolutionising food microbiology. Whole genome sequencing (WGS) of …

Recent advances in the analysis of microbial communities colonizing the human body have
identified a resident microbial community in the human urinary tract (UT). Compared to many …

Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) receive sewage water from a variety of sources,
including livestock farms, hospitals, industries, and households, that contain antimicrobial …

Next generation sequencing (NGS) combined with bioinformatics has successfully been
used in a vast array of analyses for infectious disease research of public health relevance …

Background Analysis of mixed microbial communities using metagenomic sequencing
experiments requires multiple preprocessing and analytical steps to interpret the microbial …

The microbiome can be defined as the community of microorganisms that live in a particular
environment. Metagenomics is the practice of sequencing DNA from the genomes of all …

Multi-drug resistance is increasing at alarming rates. The efficacy of phage therapy, treating
bacterial infections with bacteriophages alone or in combination with traditional antibiotics …

Here, we describe MetaErg, a standalone and fully automated metagenome and
metaproteome annotation pipeline. Annotation of metagenomes is challenging. First …