We commonly acknowledge that bacterial viruses (phages) shape the composition and
evolution of bacterial communities in nature and therefore have important roles in ecosystem …

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 …

Whereas DNA viruses are known to be abundant, diverse, and commonly key ecosystem
players, RNA viruses are insufficiently studied outside disease settings. In this study, we …

Background Viruses are a significant player in many biosphere and human ecosystems, but
most signals remain “hidden” in metagenomic/metatranscriptomic sequence datasets due to …

Background Viral-encoded auxiliary metabolic genes (AMGs) are important toolkits for
modulating their hosts' metabolisms and the microbial-driven biogeochemical cycles …

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 …

High-throughput RNA sequencing offers broad opportunities to explore the Earth RNA
virome. Mining 5,150 diverse metatranscriptomes uncovered> 2.5 million RNA virus contigs …

Nucleotide-based intergenomic similarities are useful to understand how viruses are related
with each other and to classify them. Here we have developed VIRIDIC, which implements …

Viruses are abundant, diverse and ancestral biological entities. Their diversity is high, both
in terms of the number of different protein families encountered and in the sequence …

Recent advances in viral metagenomics have enabled the rapid discovery of an
unprecedented catalogue of phages in numerous environments, from the human gut to the …