Academic leaders warn against UK abandoning participation in collaborative part of EU R&I programme

Metagenomics shows that viral diversity and community structure are shaped by geography and ecosystem health status, positioning viruses as unexpected players in peatland restoration.

Protein annotations provide insights into environmental tendencies

Metagenomics shows that viral diversity and community structure are shaped by geography and ecosystem health status, positioning viruses as unexpected players in peatland restoration.

The rapid evolution of microbiology as a field of research has led to the introduction of new terminology and the adaptation of existing terms. However, inconsistencies in the use of these terms, inc...

This episode, we visit Los Medanos Community College to see EcoFABs in action in Jill Bouchard’s BIO 21 lab course.

International Soil Virus Conference 2026! We are excited to announce and provide RSVP details for the next International Soil Virus Conference that will be held in Saint-Loup Lamaire, France on Jun…

We seek a creative, collaborative, and visionary plant biologist to establish an internationally recognized research program at the forefront of plant-microbe interactions aimed at understanding how t...

This Perspective discusses virus-encoded auxiliary metabolic genes and provides a framework for the biological interpretation of these genes.

Phage-plasmids are temperate phages that replicate as plasmids during lysogeny. Despite their high diversity, they carry genes similar to phages and plasmids. This leads to gene exchanges, and to the ...

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As important mobile elements in prokaryotes, prophages shape the genomic context of their hosts and regulate the structure of bacterial populations. However, it is challenging to precisely identify prophages through computational methods. Here, we introduce PIDE for identifying prophages from bacterial genomes or metagenome-assembled genomes. PIDE integrates a pre-trained protein language model and gene density clustering algorithm to distinguish prophages. Benchmarking with induced prophage sequencing datasets demonstrates that PIDE pinpoints prophages with precise boundaries. Applying PIDE to 4744 human gut representative genomes reveals 24,467 prophages with widespread functional capacity. PIDE is available at https://github.com/chyghy/PIDE , with model training code at https://zenodo.org/records/16457629 .

The microbial composition of metagenomes is identified in seconds by profiling against large databases.

By combining ultra-deep short-read shotgun metagenomic sequencing with 5-sample co-assembly across 600 agricultural soil samples, we significantly enhanced the representation and recovery of microbia....

The Department of Plant Pathology in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES) at the University of Georgia is recruiting for the position of Assistant or Associate Professor in Fu...

Zip promotes the accumulation of free phages in bacterial lysogen communities, safeguarding phage progeny.

Vclust generates fast and accurate estimation of average nucleotide identity for viral genomes, scaling clustering to millions of genomes.

Soil virus ecology is an exciting but still nascent field of research in soil microbiology. While there has been a recent surge in soil virus research…

Since the development of the Minimum Information about an Uncultured Viral Genome (MIUViG) standard (Roux et al. 2019), there has been an explosion in the number of genomic data generated on unculture...

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Abstract. The co-evolution of prokaryotes, phages and mobile genetic elements (MGEs) has driven the diversification of defense and anti-defense systems ali

I’m delighted to announce the public release of a white paper on queer- and trans-inclusive faculty hiring practices, and a perspective piece introducing it!! This is the culmination of month…