Metagenomics applies a suite of genomic technologies and bioinformatics tools to directly
access the genetic content of entire communities of organisms. The field of metagenomics …

Environmental DNA sequencing has revealed the expansive biodiversity of microorganisms
and clarified the relationship between host-associated microbial communities and host …

Kraken is an ultrafast and highly accurate program for assigning taxonomic labels to
metagenomic DNA sequences. Previous programs designed for this task have been …

Methods for assembly, taxonomic profiling and binning are key to interpreting metagenome
data, but a lack of consensus about benchmarking complicates performance assessment …

Background The problem of supervised DNA sequence classification arises in several fields
of computational molecular biology. Although this problem has been extensively studied, it is …

Animals living in social communities typically harbor a characteristic gut microbiota
important for nutrition and pathogen defense. Accordingly, in the gut of the honey bee, Apis …

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To quantify known and unknown microorganisms at species-level resolution using shotgun
sequencing data, we developed a method that establishes metagenomic operational …

Evaluating metagenomic software is key for optimizing metagenome interpretation and focus
of the Initiative for the Critical Assessment of Metagenome Interpretation (CAMI). The CAMI II …

Advances in next-generation sequencing (NGS) have allowed significant breakthroughs in
microbial ecology studies. This has led to the rapid expansion of research in the field and …