Minimum information about an uncultivated virus genome (MIUViG)

S Roux, EM Adriaenssens, BE Dutilh, EV Koonin… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
We present an extension of the Minimum Information about any (x) Sequence (MIxS)
standard for reporting sequences of uncultivated virus genomes. Minimum Information about …

Phage puppet masters of the marine microbial realm

M Breitbart, C Bonnain, K Malki, NA Sawaya - Nature microbiology, 2018 - nature.com
Viruses numerically dominate our oceans; however, we have only just begun to document
the diversity, host range and infection dynamics of marine viruses, as well as the subsequent …

ViPTree: the viral proteomic tree server

Y Nishimura, T Yoshida, M Kuronishi, H Uehara… - …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
ViPTree is a web server provided through GenomeNet to generate viral proteomic trees for
classification of viruses based on genome-wide similarities. Users can upload viral genomes …

Ecogenomics and potential biogeochemical impacts of globally abundant ocean viruses

S Roux, JR Brum, BE Dutilh, S Sunagawa… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Ocean microbes drive biogeochemical cycling on a global scale. However, this cycling is
constrained by viruses that affect community composition, metabolic activity, and …

Determinants of community structure in the global plankton interactome

G Lima-Mendez, K Faust, N Henry, J Decelle, S Colin… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Species interaction networks are shaped by abiotic and biotic factors. Here, as part of the
Tara Oceans project, we studied the photic zone interactome using environmental factors …

Patterns and ecological drivers of ocean viral communities

JR Brum, JC Ignacio-Espinoza, S Roux, G Doulcier… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Viruses influence ecosystems by modulating microbial population size, diversity, metabolic
outputs, and gene flow. Here, we use quantitative double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) viral …

Marine actinomycetes, new sources of biotechnological products

SV Jagannathan, EM Manemann, SE Rowe… - Marine Drugs, 2021 - mdpi.com
The Actinomycetales order is one of great genetic and functional diversity, including diversity
in the production of secondary metabolites which have uses in medical, environmental …

Computational approaches to predict bacteriophage–host relationships

RA Edwards, K McNair, K Faust, J Raes… - FEMS microbiology …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Metagenomics has changed the face of virus discovery by enabling the accurate
identification of viral genome sequences without requiring isolation of the viruses. As a …

Prokaryotic Virus Orthologous Groups (pVOGs): a resource for comparative genomics and protein family annotation

AL Grazziotin, EV Koonin… - Nucleic acids research, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Viruses are the most abundant and diverse biological entities on earth, and while most of
this diversity remains completely unexplored, advances in genome sequencing have …

Viral dark matter and virus–host interactions resolved from publicly available microbial genomes

S Roux, SJ Hallam, T Woyke, MB Sullivan - elife, 2015 - elifesciences.org
The ecological importance of viruses is now widely recognized, yet our limited knowledge of
viral sequence space and virus–host interactions precludes accurate prediction of their roles …