Performance and application of 16S rRNA gene cycle sequencing for routine identification of bacteria in the clinical microbiology laboratory

DL Church, L Cerutti, A Gürtler, T Griener… - Clinical microbiology …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
This review provides a state-of-the-art description of the performance of Sanger cycle
sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene for routine identification of bacteria in the clinical …

[HTML][HTML] Long walk to genomics: History and current approaches to genome sequencing and assembly

AM Giani, GR Gallo, L Gianfranceschi… - Computational and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Genomes represent the starting point of genetic studies. Since the discovery of DNA
structure, scientists have devoted great efforts to determine their sequence in an exact way …

Vaccination induces HIV broadly neutralizing antibody precursors in humans

DJ Leggat, KW Cohen, JR Willis, WJ Fulp, AC Decamp… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) can protect against HIV infection but have not been
induced by human vaccination. A key barrier to bnAb induction is vaccine priming of rare …

Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in free-ranging white-tailed deer in the United States

A Feng, S Bevins, J Chandler, TJ DeLiberto… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
SARS-CoV-2 is a zoonotic virus with documented bi-directional transmission between
people and animals. Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from humans to free-ranging white-tailed …

Merqury: reference-free quality, completeness, and phasing assessment for genome assemblies

A Rhie, BP Walenz, S Koren, AM Phillippy - Genome biology, 2020 - Springer
Recent long-read assemblies often exceed the quality and completeness of available
reference genomes, making validation challenging. Here we present Merqury, a novel tool …

Sexual-dimorphism in human immune system aging

EJ Márquez, C Chung, R Marches, RJ Rossi… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Differences in immune function and responses contribute to health-and life-span disparities
between sexes. However, the role of sex in immune system aging is not well understood …

Proposed minimal standards for the use of genome data for the taxonomy of prokaryotes

J Chun, A Oren, A Ventosa… - … of systematic and …, 2018 - microbiologyresearch.org
Advancement of DNA sequencing technology allows the routine use of genome sequences
in the various fields of microbiology. The information held in genome sequences proved to …

Canu: scalable and accurate long-read assembly via adaptive k-mer weighting and repeat separation

S Koren, BP Walenz, K Berlin, JR Miller… - Genome …, 2017 - genome.cshlp.org
Long-read single-molecule sequencing has revolutionized de novo genome assembly and
enabled the automated reconstruction of reference-quality genomes. However, given the …

Falco: high-speed FastQC emulation for quality control of sequencing data

G de Sena Brandine, AD Smith - F1000Research, 2021 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Quality control is an essential first step in sequencing data analysis, and software tools for
quality control are deeply entrenched in standard pipelines at most sequencing centers …