Simon Roux
Virus-obsessed bioinformatician, DOE JGI Scientist, Enjoy exploring the viral world with #metagenomics and other cool #omics toys. He/him. Opinions my own.
The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system - Nature Ecology & Evolutionwww.nature.com Integration of phylogenetics, comparative genomics and palaeobiological approaches suggests that the last universal common ancestor lived about 4.2 billion years ago and was a complex prokaryote-grade...
Floria: fast and accurate strain haplotyping in metagenomesacademic.oup.com AbstractSummary. Shotgun metagenomics allows for direct analysis of microbial community genetics, but scalable computational methods for the recovery of ba
Genome drafts of Pseudogracilibacillus spp. from soil and sediment of Mount Makiling, a dormant volcano in the Philippines | Microbiology Resource Announcementsjournals.asm.org Discoveries and genome-wide understanding of Pseudogracilibacillus and related genera are key to resolving the taxonomic ambiguities of the polyphyletic
and highly functional bacterial family Bacillac...
An intron endonuclease facilitates interference competition between coinfecting viruseswww.science.org Introns containing homing endonucleases are widespread in nature and have long been assumed to be selfish elements that provide no benefit to the host organism. These genetic elements are common in vi...
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Cystic fibrosis pathogens persist in the upper respiratory tract following initiation of elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor therapy | Microbiology Spectrumjournals.asm.org Highly effective modulator therapies (HEMT), such as elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor
(ETI), for cystic fibrosis (CF) have revolutionized patient care and quality of life
for most affected individuals...
Why do we need a computational taxonomy?ictv-vbeg.github.io A community challenge to evaluate and compare viral genome taxonomy classifiers
Long-standing marine mystery solved: How algae get nitrogen to growmedienportal.univie.ac.at Newly discovered symbiosis between Rhizobia and diatoms could also open new avenues for agriculture
Viral Bioinformatics Toolsdocs.google.com Sheet1
Name,Category,Individual, multiple, or virome,Phage, Virus, or Both,Methods,Citation,Google Scholar Link to Cluster Representing the Paper,URL,Last update (YYYMMDD),Notes,Install from conda,In...
The Aggregated Gut Viral Catalogue (AVrC): A Unified Resource for Exploring the Viral Diversity of the Human Gut https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.24.600367v1 www.biorxiv.org Despite the growing interest in the role of the gut virome in human health and disease, identifying
Various plasmid strategies limit the effect of bacterial Restriction-Modification systems against conjugationwww.biorxiv.org bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
Ten simple rules for implementing electronic lab notebooks (ELNs)journals.plos.org
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Island biogeography theory provides a plausible explanation for why larger vertebrates and taller humans have more diverse gut microbiomest.co Abstract. Prior work has shown a positive scaling relationship between vertebrate body size, human height, and gut microbiome alpha diversity. This observa
Strain tracking in complex microbiomes using synteny analysis reveals per-species modes of evolution - Nature Biotechnologywww.nature.com The evolution of microbial strains is revealed by analyzing structural variation.