Environmental DNA sequencing has revealed the expansive biodiversity of microorganisms
and clarified the relationship between host-associated microbial communities and host …

Metagenomics is a segment of conventional microbial genomics dedicated to the
sequencing and analysis of combined genomic DNA of entire environmental samples. The …

While metagenomics has emerged as a technology of choice for analyzing bacterial
populations, the assembly of metagenomic data remains challenging, thus stifling biological …

Background Recovering individual genomes from metagenomic datasets allows access to
uncultivated microbial populations that may have important roles in natural and engineered …

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 …

Advances in sequencing technologies and increased access to sequencing services have
led to renewed interest in sequence and genome assembly. Concurrently, new applications …

Motivation: An important step of" metagenomics" analysis is the assembly of multiple
genomes from mixed sequence reads of multiple species in a microbial community. Most …

Abstracta Voluminous parallel sequencing datasets, especially metagenomic experiments,
require distributed computing for de novo assembly and taxonomic profiling. Ray Meta is a …

High-throughput sequencing technology is rapidly improving in quality, speed and cost. It is
therefore becoming more widely used to study whole communities of prokaryotes in many …

Complex microbial communities are an integral part of the Earth's ecosystem and of our
bodies in health and disease. In the last two decades, culture‐independent approaches …