Incongruence in the phylogenomics era

JL Steenwyk, Y Li, X Zhou, XX Shen… - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Genome-scale data and the development of novel statistical phylogenetic approaches have
greatly aided the reconstruction of a broad sketch of the tree of life and resolved many of its …

Prevotella diversity, niches and interactions with the human host

A Tett, E Pasolli, G Masetti, D Ercolini… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The genus Prevotella includes more than 50 characterized species that occur in varied
natural habitats, although most Prevotella spp. are associated with humans. In the human …

Profiling the human intestinal environment under physiological conditions

D Shalon, RN Culver, JA Grembi, J Folz, PV Treit, H Shi… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The spatiotemporal structure of the human microbiome,, proteome and metabolome, reflects
and determines regional intestinal physiology and may have implications for disease. Yet …

The person-to-person transmission landscape of the gut and oral microbiomes

M Valles-Colomer, A Blanco-Míguez, P Manghi… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The human microbiome is an integral component of the human body and a co-determinant
of several health conditions,. However, the extent to which interpersonal relations shape the …

Extending and improving metagenomic taxonomic profiling with uncharacterized species using MetaPhlAn 4

A Blanco-Míguez, F Beghini, F Cumbo, LJ McIver… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Metagenomic assembly enables new organism discovery from microbial communities, but it
can only capture few abundant organisms from most metagenomes. Here we present …

CheckM2: a rapid, scalable and accurate tool for assessing microbial genome quality using machine learning

A Chklovski, DH Parks, BJ Woodcroft, GW Tyson - Nature Methods, 2023 - nature.com
Advances in sequencing technologies and bioinformatics tools have dramatically increased
the recovery rate of microbial genomes from metagenomic data. Assessing the quality of …

Sequence modeling and design from molecular to genome scale with Evo

E Nguyen, M Poli, MG Durrant, B Kang, D Katrekar… - Science, 2024 - science.org
The genome is a sequence that encodes the DNA, RNA, and proteins that orchestrate an
organism's function. We present Evo, a long-context genomic foundation model with a …

GTDB: an ongoing census of bacterial and archaeal diversity through a phylogenetically consistent, rank normalized and complete genome-based taxonomy

DH Parks, M Chuvochina, C Rinke… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Genome Taxonomy Database (GTDB; https://gtdb. ecogenomic. org) provides a
phylogenetically consistent and rank normalized genome-based taxonomy for prokaryotic …

Variability of strain engraftment and predictability of microbiome composition after fecal microbiota transplantation across different diseases

G Ianiro, M Punčochář, N Karcher, S Porcari… - Nature Medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is highly effective against recurrent Clostridioides
difficile infection and is considered a promising treatment for other microbiome-related …

iPHoP: An integrated machine learning framework to maximize host prediction for metagenome-derived viruses of archaea and bacteria

S Roux, AP Camargo, FH Coutinho, SM Dabdoub… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The extraordinary diversity of viruses infecting bacteria and archaea is now primarily studied
through metagenomics. While metagenomes enable high-throughput exploration of the viral …