Next-generation sequencing: big data meets high performance computing

B Schmidt, A Hildebrandt - Drug discovery today, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•Analysis of massive NGS datasets poses difficult computational challenges.•Big
data algorithms are often adapted for NGS analysis.•HPC becomes pivotal as NGS …

Mash: fast genome and metagenome distance estimation using MinHash

BD Ondov, TJ Treangen, P Melsted, AB Mallonee… - Genome biology, 2016 - Springer
Mash extends the MinHash dimensionality-reduction technique to include a pairwise
mutation distance and P value significance test, enabling the efficient clustering and search …

Fecal microbial transplant effect on clinical outcomes and fecal microbiome in active Crohn's disease

DL Suskind, MJ Brittnacher, G Wahbeh… - Inflammatory bowel …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Background Crohn's disease (CD) is a chronic idiopathic inflammatory intestinal disorder
associated with fecal dysbiosis. Fecal microbial transplant (FMT) is a potential therapeutic …

Impact of fire on active layer and permafrost microbial communities and metagenomes in an upland Alaskan boreal forest

N Taş, E Prestat, JW McFarland, KP Wickland… - The ISME …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Permafrost soils are large reservoirs of potentially labile carbon (C). Understanding the
dynamics of C release from these soils requires us to account for the impact of wildfires …

[图书][B] Genome-scale algorithm design

V Mäkinen, D Belazzougui, F Cunial, AI Tomescu - 2015 - books.google.com
High-throughput sequencing has revolutionised the field of biological sequence analysis. Its
application has enabled researchers to address important biological questions, often for the …

The ocean sampling day consortium

A Kopf, M Bicak, R Kottmann, J Schnetzer, I Kostadinov… - Gigascience, 2015 - Springer
Abstract Ocean Sampling Day was initiated by the EU-funded Micro B3 (Marine Microbial
Biodiversity, Bioinformatics, Biotechnology) project to obtain a snapshot of the marine …

Environmental characteristics of Agulhas rings affect interocean plankton transport

E Villar, GK Farrant, M Follows, L Garczarek, S Speich… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Agulhas rings provide the principal route for ocean waters to circulate from the Indo-Pacific
to the Atlantic basin. Their influence on global ocean circulation is well known, but their role …

Comparison of microbiome samples: methods and computational challenges

M Comin, B Di Camillo, C Pizzi… - Briefings in …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The study of microbial communities crucially relies on the comparison of metagenomic next-
generation sequencing data sets, for which several methods have been designed in recent …

Multiple comparative metagenomics using multiset k-mer counting

G Benoit, P Peterlongo, M Mariadassou… - PeerJ Computer …, 2016 - peerj.com
Background Large scale metagenomic projects aim to extract biodiversity knowledge
between different environmental conditions. Current methods for comparing microbial …

Small Searchable κ-Spectra via Subset Rank Queries on the Spectral Burrows-Wheeler Transform

JN Alanko, SJ Puglisi, J Vuohtoniemi - SIAM Conference on Applied and …, 2023 - SIAM
The κ-spectrum of a string is the set of all distinct substrings of length κ occurring in the
string. This is a lossy but computationally convenient representation of the information in the …