New approaches for metagenome assembly with short reads

M Ayling, MD Clark, RM Leggett - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2020 - academic.oup.com
In recent years, the use of longer range read data combined with advances in assembly
algorithms has stimulated big improvements in the contiguity and quality of genome …

Perspective on taxonomic classification of uncultivated viruses

BE Dutilh, A Varsani, Y Tong, P Simmonds… - Current opinion in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Historically, virus taxonomy has been limited to describing viruses that were readily
cultivated in the laboratory or emerging in natural biomes. Metagenomic analyses, single …

Cancer‐associated fibroblast‐mediated cellular crosstalk supports hepatocellular carcinoma progression

M Song, J He, QZ Pan, J Yang, J Zhao, YJ Zhang… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background and Aims Cancer‐associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are key players in multicellular,
stromal‐dependent alterations leading to HCC pathogenesis. However, the intricate …

Direct RNA nanopore sequencing of full-length coronavirus genomes provides novel insights into structural variants and enables modification analysis

A Viehweger, S Krautwurst, K Lamkiewicz… - Genome …, 2019 - genome.cshlp.org
Sequence analyses of RNA virus genomes remain challenging owing to the exceptional
genetic plasticity of these viruses. Because of high mutation and recombination rates …

A fast and agnostic method for bacterial genome-wide association studies: Bridging the gap between k-mers and genetic events

M Jaillard, L Lima, M Tournoud, P Mahé… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Genome-wide association study (GWAS) methods applied to bacterial genomes have
shown promising results for genetic marker discovery or detailed assessment of marker …

Lineage abundance estimation for SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater using transcriptome quantification techniques

JA Baaijens, A Zulli, IM Ott, I Nika, MJ van der Lugt… - Genome biology, 2022 - Springer
Effectively monitoring the spread of SARS-CoV-2 mutants is essential to efforts to counter
the ongoing pandemic. Predicting lineage abundance from wastewater, however, is …

V-pipe: a computational pipeline for assessing viral genetic diversity from high-throughput data

S Posada-Céspedes, D Seifert, I Topolsky… - …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Motivation High-throughput sequencing technologies are used increasingly not only in viral
genomics research but also in clinical surveillance and diagnostics. These technologies …

Bioinformatics resources for SARS-CoV-2 discovery and surveillance

T Hu, J Li, H Zhou, C Li, EC Holmes… - Briefings in …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
In early January 2020, the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) responsible for a pneumonia
outbreak in Wuhan, China, was identified using next-generation sequencing (NGS) and …

Strainberry: automated strain separation in low-complexity metagenomes using long reads

R Vicedomini, C Quince, AE Darling… - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
High-throughput short-read metagenomics has enabled large-scale species-level analysis
and functional characterization of microbial communities. Microbiomes often contain multiple …

Computational graph pangenomics: a tutorial on data structures and their applications

JA Baaijens, P Bonizzoni, C Boucher… - Natural Computing, 2022 - Springer
Computational pangenomics is an emerging research field that is changing the way
computer scientists are facing challenges in biological sequence analysis. In past decades …