The gut virome is an incredibly complex part of the gut ecosystem. Gut viruses play a role in
many disease states, but it is unknown to what extent the gut virome impacts everyday …

Food security is an urgent global challenge, with cereals playing a crucial role in meeting
the nutritional requirements of populations worldwide. In recent years, the field of …

Viruses are often studied using metagenome-assembled sequences, but genome
incompleteness hampers comprehensive and accurate analyses. Contig Overlap Based Re …

Improvements in the accuracy and availability of long-read sequencing mean that complete
bacterial genomes are now routinely reconstructed using hybrid (ie short-and long-reads) …

Microorganisms found in natural environments are fundamental components of ecosystems
and play vital roles in various ecological processes. Studying their genomes can provide …

Bacteriophages, or phages, are viruses that infect bacteria sha** microbial communities
and ecosystems. They have gained attention as potential agents against antibiotic …

Background Metagenomics is a powerful approach to study environmental and human-
associated microbial communities and, in particular, the role of viruses in sha** them …

The advent of viral metagenomics, or viromics, has improved our knowledge and
understanding of global viral diversity. High-throughput sequencing technologies enable …

Background Modern sequencing technologies offer extraordinary opportunities for virus
discovery and virome analysis. Annotation of viral sequences from metagenomic data …

Shiga toxin (Stx) released by Shiga toxin producing Escherichia coli (STEC) causes life-
threatening illness. Its production and release require induction of Stx-encoding prophage …