A growing body of evidence suggests that the gut microbiota contributes to the development
of neurodegenerative diseases via the microbiota-gut-brain axis. As a contributing factor …

Bacteriophages, or phages, are viruses that infect bacteria shaping microbial communities
and ecosystems. They have gained attention as potential agents against antibiotic …

Background Biocontrol is a key technology for the control of pest species. Microctonus
parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) have been released in Aotearoa New Zealand …

The increasing availability of expressive quantities of human viral sequenced samples,
namely from clinical and forensic contexts, has led to the emergence of many optimized …

Background Modern sequencing technologies offer extraordinary opportunities for virus
discovery and virome analysis. Annotation of viral sequences from metagenomic data …

Motivation RNA viruses tend to mutate constantly. While many of the variants are neutral,
some can lead to higher transmissibility or virulence. Accurate assembly of complete viral …

Circularity confers protection to viral genomes where linearity falls short, thereby fulfilling the
form follows function aphorism. However, a shift away from morphology-based classification …

Background The development of pangenomes has revolutionized genomic studies by
capturing the complete genetic diversity within a species. Pangenome assembly integrates …

Until recently, the only methods for finding out if a particular strain or species of bacteria
could be a host for a particular bacteriophage was to see if the bacteriophage could infect …

We report the complete genome sequence of Stutzerimonas stutzeri strain SOCE 002,
obtained from Illumina and Oxford Nanopore sequencing. The genome is 4.68 Mb long, with …