Machine learning for microbiologists

F Asnicar, AM Thomas, A Passerini… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Machine learning is increasingly important in microbiology where it is used for tasks
such as predicting antibiotic resistance and associating human microbiome features with …

Post-translational modifications in proteins: resources, tools and prediction methods

S Ramazi, J Zahiri - Database, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Posttranslational modifications (PTMs) refer to amino acid side chain modification in some
proteins after their biosynthesis. There are more than 400 different types of PTMs affecting …

Using evolutionary data to make sense of macromolecules with a “face‐lifted” ConSurf

B Yariv, E Yariv, A Kessel, G Masrati, AB Chorin… - Protein …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The ConSurf web‐sever for the analysis of proteins, RNA, and DNA provides a quick and
accurate estimate of the per‐site evolutionary rate among homologues. The analysis reveals …

trRosettaRNA: automated prediction of RNA 3D structure with transformer network

W Wang, C Feng, R Han, Z Wang, L Ye, Z Du… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
RNA 3D structure prediction is a long-standing challenge. Inspired by the recent
breakthrough in protein structure prediction, we developed trRosettaRNA, an automated …

DeepTMHMM predicts alpha and beta transmembrane proteins using deep neural networks

J Hallgren, KD Tsirigos, MD Pedersen… - biorxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Transmembrane proteins span the lipid bilayer and are divided into two major structural
classes, namely alpha helical and beta barrels. We introduce DeepTMHMM, a deep …

Reduction of microbial diversity in grassland soil is driven by long-term climate warming

L Wu, Y Zhang, X Guo, D Ning, X Zhou, J Feng… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Anthropogenic climate change threatens ecosystem functioning. Soil biodiversity is essential
for maintaining the health of terrestrial systems, but how climate change affects the richness …

Rapid evolution of A (H5N1) influenza viruses after intercontinental spread to North America

A Kandeil, C Patton, JC Jones, T Jeevan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N1) viruses of clade 2.3. 4.4 b underwent an
explosive geographic expansion in 2021 among wild birds and domestic poultry across …

Unraveling the functional dark matter through global metagenomics

GA Pavlopoulos, FA Baltoumas, S Liu, O Selvitopi… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Metagenomes encode an enormous diversity of proteins, reflecting a multiplicity of functions
and activities,. Exploration of this vast sequence space has been limited to a comparative …

Microbiota-derived indoles alleviate intestinal inflammation and modulate microbiome by microbial cross-feeding

G Wang, Y Fan, G Zhang, S Cai, Y Ma, L Yang, Y Wang… - Microbiome, 2024 - Springer
Background The host–microbiota interaction plays a crucial role in maintaining homeostasis
and disease susceptibility, and microbial tryptophan metabolites are potent modulators of …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines induce persistent human germinal centre responses

JS Turner, JA O'Halloran, E Kalaidina, W Kim… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract SARS-CoV-2 mRNA-based vaccines are about 95% effective in preventing COVID-
19 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. The dynamics of antibody-secreting plasmablasts and germinal centre B …