Greengenes2 unifies microbial data in a single reference tree

D McDonald, Y Jiang, M Balaban, K Cantrell… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Studies using 16S rRNA and shotgun metagenomics typically yield different results, usually
attributed to PCR amplification biases. We introduce Greengenes2, a reference tree that …

[PDF][PDF] Microbial diversity and open questions about the deep tree of life

L Eme, D Tamarit - Genome Biology and Evolution, 2024 - academic.oup.com
In this perspective, we explore the transformative impact and inherent limitations of
metagenomics and single-cell genomics on our understanding of microbial diversity and …

Scaling DEPP phylogenetic placement to ultra-large reference trees: a tree-aware ensemble approach

Y Jiang, D McDonald, D Perry, R Knight… - …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Phylogenetic placement of a query sequence on a backbone tree is increasingly
used across biomedical sciences to identify the content of a sample from its DNA content …

Memory-bound k-mer selection for large and evolutionarily diverse reference libraries

AOB Şapcı, S Mirarab - Genome Research, 2024 - genome.cshlp.org
Using k-mers to find sequence matches is increasingly used in many bioinformatic
applications, including metagenomic sequence classification. The accuracy of these …

A k-mer-based maximum likelihood method for estimating distances of reads to genomes enables genome-wide phylogenetic placement.

AOB Sapci, S Mirarab - bioRxiv, 2025 - biorxiv.org
Consider comparing a sequencing read of unknown origin to a set of reference genomes.
This problem underlines many applications, including metagenomic analyses. The exact …

Accurate, scalable, and fully automated inference of species trees from raw genome assemblies using ROADIES

A Gupta, S Mirarab, Y Turakhia - bioRxiv, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Inference of species trees plays a crucial role in advancing our understanding of
evolutionary relationships and has immense significance for diverse biological and medical …

ANASFV: a workflow for ASFV whole genome sequencing, assembly, and evaluation

K Li, X Han, Y Shao, Y Zhang, X Zhao, EW Johnson… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Abstract African Swine Fever Virus (ASFV) poses an ongoing threat with widespread
outbreaks affecting both domestic and wild pig populations globally. Effective management …

CompactTree: A lightweight header-only C++ library for ultra-large phylogenetics

N Moshiri - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Motivation The study of viral and bacterial species requires the ability to load and traverse
ultra-large phylogenies with tens of millions of tips, but existing tree libraries struggle to …

A computational framework for large-scale cell lineage reconstruction

B Kiyota - 2024 - open.library.ubc.ca
The advent of CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing technologies has spurred the development of
large-scale cell lineage tracing systems. These techniques involve integrating synthetic DNA …

[PDF][PDF] Memory-bound k-mer selection for large and evolutionarily diverse reference libraries

AOB Şapcι, S Mirarab - 2024 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
Using k-mers to find sequence matches is increasingly used in many bioinformatic
applications, including metagenomic sequence classification. The accuracy of these …