There are 100 times more virions than eukaryotic cells in a healthy human body. The
characterization of human-associated viral communities in a non-pathological state and the …

Abstract Background In July 2015, the carcasses of 11 cockatiels were submitted for disease
diagnosis to the Avian Disease Division of the Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency of …

High sensitivity methods such as next generation sequencing and polymerase chain
reaction (PCR) are adversely impacted by organismal and DNA contaminants. Current …

Protein homology search provides basis for functional profiling in metagenomic annotation.
Profile HMM-based methods classify reads into annotated protein domain families and can …

MetaABC is a metagenomic platform that integrates several binning tools coupled with
methods for removing artifacts, analyzing unassigned reads and controlling sampling …

Metagenomics enables the study of unculturable microorganisms in different environments
directly. Discriminating between the compositional differences of metagenomes is an …

By sequence homology search, the list of all the functions found and the counts of reads
being aligned to them present the functional profile of a metagenomic sample. However, a …

Photic-zone euxinia (PZE) is associated with several times in Earth's history including
Phanerozoic extinction events and long parts of the Proterozoic. One of the best modern …