Sequencing-based analyses of microbiomes have traditionally focused on addressing the
question of community membership and profiling taxonomic abundance through amplicon …

A transcriptome constructed from short-read RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) is an easily
attainable proxy catalog of protein-coding genes when genome assembly is unnecessary …

Abstract SPAdes—St. Petersburg genome Assembler—was originally developed for de
novo assembly of genome sequencing data produced for cultivated microbial isolates and …

Forest soil microbiomes have crucial roles in carbon storage, biogeochemical cycling and
rhizosphere processes. Wildfire season length, and the frequency and size of severe fires …

Beneficial microorganisms for corals (BMCs) ameliorate environmental stress, but whether
they can prevent mortality and the underlying host response mechanisms remains elusive …

Public databases contain a planetary collection of nucleic acid sequences, but their
systematic exploration has been inhibited by a lack of efficient methods for searching this …

Background In recent years, massively parallel complementary DNA sequencing (RNA
sequencing [RNA-Seq]) has emerged as a fast, cost-effective, and robust technology to …

Transposable elements (TEs) have long been known to be major contributors to plant
evolution, adaptation and crop domestication. Stress-induced TE mobilization is of particular …

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

The gene numbers and evolutionary rates of birds were assumed to be much lower than
those of mammals, which is in sharp contrast to the huge species number and …