A practical guide to amplicon and metagenomic analysis of microbiome data

YX Liu, Y Qin, T Chen, M Lu, X Qian, X Guo… - Protein & cell, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Advances in high-throughput sequencing (HTS) have fostered rapid developments in the
field of microbiome research, and massive microbiome datasets are now being generated …

Metagenomics-enabled microbial surveillance

KKK Ko, KR Chng, N Nagarajan - Nature Microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
Lessons learnt from the COVID-19 pandemic include increased awareness of the potential
for zoonoses and emerging infectious diseases that can adversely affect human health …

Complete, closed bacterial genomes from microbiomes using nanopore sequencing

EL Moss, DG Maghini, AS Bhatt - Nature biotechnology, 2020 - nature.com
Microbial genomes can be assembled from short-read sequencing data, but the assembly
contiguity of these metagenome-assembled genomes is constrained by repeat elements …

High-throughput, single-microbe genomics with strain resolution, applied to a human gut microbiome

W Zheng, S Zhao, Y Yin, H Zhang, DM Needham… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Characterizing complex microbial communities with single-cell resolution has been a long-
standing goal of microbiology. We present Microbe-seq, a high-throughput method that …

Perspectives and benefits of high-throughput long-read sequencing in microbial ecology

L Tedersoo, M Albertsen, S Anslan… - Applied and …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Short-read, high-throughput sequencing (HTS) methods have yielded numerous important
insights into microbial ecology and function. Yet, in many instances short-read HTS …

Hybrid metagenomic assembly enables high-resolution analysis of resistance determinants and mobile elements in human microbiomes

D Bertrand, J Shaw, M Kalathiyappan, AHQ Ng… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract Characterization of microbiomes has been enabled by high-throughput
metagenomic sequencing. However, existing methods are not designed to combine reads …

[HTML][HTML] A review of computational tools for generating metagenome-assembled genomes from metagenomic sequencing data

C Yang, D Chowdhury, Z Zhang, WK Cheung… - Computational and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Metagenomic sequencing provides a culture-independent avenue to investigate the
complex microbial communities by constructing metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) …

Viruses interact with hosts that span distantly related microbial domains in dense hydrothermal mats

Y Hwang, S Roux, C Coclet, SJE Krause… - Nature Microbiology, 2023 - nature.com
Many microbes in nature reside in dense, metabolically interdependent communities. We
investigated the nature and extent of microbe-virus interactions in relation to microbial …

A bioinformatic analysis of integrative mobile genetic elements highlights their role in bacterial adaptation

MG Durrant, MM Li, BA Siranosian, SB Montgomery… - Cell host & …, 2020 - cell.com
Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) contribute to bacterial adaptation and evolution; however,
high-throughput, unbiased MGE detection remains challenging. We describe MGEfinder, a …

A high-quality genome compendium of the human gut microbiome of Inner Mongolians

H **, K Quan, Q He, LY Kwok, T Ma, Y Li, F Zhao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Metagenome-based resources have revealed the diversity and function of the human gut
microbiome, but further understanding is limited by insufficient genome quality and a lack of …