Microbial metabolites in the marine carbon cycle

MA Moran, EB Kujawinski, WF Schroer, SA Amin… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
One-quarter of photosynthesis-derived carbon on Earth rapidly cycles through a set of short-
lived seawater metabolites that are generated from the activities of marine phytoplankton …

Mining genomes to illuminate the specialized chemistry of life

MH Medema, T de Rond, BS Moore - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
All organisms produce specialized organic molecules, ranging from small volatile chemicals
to large gene-encoded peptides, that have evolved to provide them with diverse cellular and …

ColabFold: making protein folding accessible to all

M Mirdita, K Schütze, Y Moriwaki, L Heo… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
ColabFold offers accelerated prediction of protein structures and complexes by combining
the fast homology search of MMseqs2 with AlphaFold2 or RoseTTAFold. ColabFold's 40− 60 …

A 2-million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland uncovered by environmental DNA

KH Kjær, M Winther Pedersen, B De Sanctis… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene epochs 3.6 to 0.8 million years ago had
climates resembling those forecasted under future warming. Palaeoclimatic records show …

Unraveling the functional dark matter through global metagenomics

GA Pavlopoulos, FA Baltoumas, S Liu, O Selvitopi… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Metagenomes encode an enormous diversity of proteins, reflecting a multiplicity of functions
and activities,. Exploration of this vast sequence space has been limited to a comparative …

xTrimoPGLM: unified 100B-scale pre-trained transformer for deciphering the language of protein

B Chen, X Cheng, P Li, Y Geng, J Gong, S Li… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Protein language models have shown remarkable success in learning biological information
from protein sequences. However, most existing models are limited by either autoencoding …

Mirusviruses link herpesviruses to giant viruses

M Gaïa, L Meng, E Pelletier, P Forterre, C Vanni… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
DNA viruses have a major influence on the ecology and evolution of cellular organisms,,–,
but their overall diversity and evolutionary trajectories remain elusive. Here we carried out a …

Fast and robust metagenomic sequence comparison through sparse chaining with skani

J Shaw, YW Yu - Nature Methods, 2023 - nature.com
Sequence comparison tools for metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) struggle with
high-volume or low-quality data. We present skani (https://github. com/bluenote-1577/skani) …

Restructuring of plankton genomic biogeography in the surface ocean under climate change

P Frémont, M Gehlen, M Vrac, J Leconte… - Nature Climate …, 2022 - nature.com
The impact of climate change on diversity, functioning and biogeography of marine plankton
remains a major unresolved issue. Here environmental niches are evidenced for plankton …

Heterotrophic bacterial diazotrophs are more abundant than their cyanobacterial counterparts in metagenomes covering most of the sunlit ocean

TO Delmont, JJ Pierella Karlusich, I Veseli… - The ISME …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Biological nitrogen fixation contributes significantly to marine primary productivity. The
current view depicts few cyanobacterial diazotrophs as the main marine nitrogen fixers …