Leveraging artificial intelligence in the fight against infectious diseases

F Wong, C de la Fuente-Nunez, JJ Collins - Science, 2023 - science.org
Despite advances in molecular biology, genetics, computation, and medicinal chemistry,
infectious disease remains an ominous threat to public health. Addressing the challenges …

Next-generation sequencing: insights to advance clinical investigations of the microbiome

CR Wensel, JL Pluznick, SL Salzberg… - The Journal of clinical …, 2022 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology has advanced our understanding of the
human microbiome by allowing for the discovery and characterization of unculturable …

Large-scale genome sequencing of mycorrhizal fungi provides insights into the early evolution of symbiotic traits

S Miyauchi, E Kiss, A Kuo, E Drula, A Kohler… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Mycorrhizal fungi are mutualists that play crucial roles in nutrient acquisition in terrestrial
ecosystems. Mycorrhizal symbioses arose repeatedly across multiple lineages of …

The PATRIC Bioinformatics Resource Center: expanding data and analysis capabilities

JJ Davis, AR Wattam, RK Aziz, T Brettin… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The PathoSystems Resource Integration Center (PATRIC) is the bacterial
Bioinformatics Resource Center funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious …

Surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in low-and middle-income countries: a scattered picture

K Iskandar, L Molinier, S Hallit, M Sartelli… - … Resistance & Infection …, 2021 - Springer
Data on comprehensive population-based surveillance of antimicrobial resistance is lacking.
In low-and middle-income countries, the challenges are high due to weak laboratory …

New insights from uncultivated genomes of the global human gut microbiome

S Nayfach, ZJ Shi, R Seshadri, KS Pollard… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The genome sequences of many species of the human gut microbiome remain unknown,
largely owing to challenges in cultivating microorganisms under laboratory conditions. Here …

Improvements to PATRIC, the all-bacterial bioinformatics database and analysis resource center

AR Wattam, JJ Davis, R Assaf, S Boisvert… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Pathosystems Resource Integration Center (PATRIC) is the bacterial
Bioinformatics Resource Center (https://www. patricbrc. org). Recent changes to PATRIC …

Functional and genomic variation between human-derived isolates of Lachnospiraceae reveals inter-and intra-species diversity

MT Sorbara, ER Littmann, E Fontana, TU Moody… - Cell host & …, 2020 - cell.com
Bacteria belonging to the Lachnospiraceae family are abundant, obligate anaerobic
members of the microbiota in healthy humans. Lachnospiraceae impact their hosts by …

Fast automated reconstruction of genome-scale metabolic models for microbial species and communities

D Machado, S Andrejev, M Tramontano… - Nucleic acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Genome-scale metabolic models are instrumental in uncovering operating principles of
cellular metabolism, for model-guided re-engineering, and unraveling cross-feeding in …

DeepARG: a deep learning approach for predicting antibiotic resistance genes from metagenomic data

G Arango-Argoty, E Garner, A Pruden, LS Heath… - Microbiome, 2018 - Springer
Background Growing concerns about increasing rates of antibiotic resistance call for
expanded and comprehensive global monitoring. Advancing methods for monitoring of …