Bacteria acquire novel DNA through horizontal gene transfer (HGT), a process that enables
an organism to rapidly adapt to changing environmental conditions, provides a competitive …

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing threat to human and animal health. Progress in
molecular biology has revealed new and significant challenges for AMR mitigation given the …

Millions of new viral sequences have been identified from metagenomes, but the quality and
completeness of these sequences vary considerably. Here we present CheckV, an …

Bacteriophages drive evolutionary change in bacterial communities by creating gene flow
networks that fuel ecological adaptions. However, the extent of viral diversity and its …

Long-read sequencing technologies have substantially improved the assemblies of many
isolate bacterial genomes as compared to fragmented short-read assemblies. However …

Indigenous bacteriophage communities (virome) in the human gut have a huge impact on
the structure and function of gut bacterial communities (bacteriome), but virome variation at a …

Metagenomic methods enable the simultaneous characterization of microbial communities
without time-consuming and bias-inducing culturing. Metagenome-assembled genome …

Advancing environmental research on antibiotic resistance will require develo** better
databases of not only the occurrences of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in the …

Background Antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) used in intensive animal
farming threaten human health worldwide; however, the common resistome, ARG mobility …

The understanding of the human genome has been greatly improved by the advent of next-
generation sequencing technologies (NGS). Despite the undeniable advantages …