Eriksson et al. conduct a global marine microbiome diversity analysis and demonstrate how the surface ocean latitudinal diversity gradient is disproportionately shaped by a few species-rich taxa. Mask...

Nature Genetics - Peer Bork (1963–2026)

Alcohol overuse disrupts liver function and alters gut microbial communities, with alcohol-related liver disease (ALD) causing half of all liver-relat…

Clostridium perfringens lacking perfringolysin O toxin isolated from preterm infants metabolizes human milk oligosaccharide disialyllacto-N-tetraose to produce metabolites that promote the growth of c...

MicrobeAtlas (www.microbeatlas.org) is an integrated, reference-based resource for truly planet-wide microbiomics, analyzing hundreds of thousands of microbial lineages across diverse environments, co...

Environmental DNA sequencing has revolutionized our understanding of microbial diversity and ecology. Microbiomes have now been sequenced across the e…

A planetary-scale analysis of over 85,000 metagenomes establishes a framework for exploring the structure and drivers of global microbial habitats, revealing that generalist species bridge ecological ...

A planetary-scale analysis of over 85,000 metagenomes establishes a framework for exploring the structure and drivers of global microbial habitats, revealing that generalist species bridge ecological ...

Protein structure is conserved beyond sequence, making multiple structural alignment (MSTA) essential for analyzing distantly related proteins. Computational prediction methods have vastly extended ou...

EMBL and its community are deeply saddened by the death of Peer Bork, the organisation’s Interim Director General.

Abstract. Microbes differ greatly in their organismal structure, physiology, and environmental adaptation, yet information about these phenotypic traits is

Background: Alcohol overuse disrupts liver function and alters microbial gut communities, with alcohol-related liver disease (ALD) accounting for half of all liver-related deaths worldwide. Bile acids...

Microbes are ubiquitous on Earth, forming microbiomes that sustain macroscopic life and biogeochemical cycles. Microbial dispersion, driven by natural processes and human activities, interconnects mic...

Nature Methods - Phylogenetic compression achieves performant and lossless compression of massive collections of microbial genomes, facilitating fast BLAST-like search and versatile alignment tasks.

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Nature Reviews Genetics, Published online: 08 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41576-024-00803-0Controlling for phylogeny is essential in comparative genomics studies, because species, genomes and genes are not independent data points within statistical tests.…

Here, the authors show that higher levels of the gut bacterial clade TANB77 associate with better response to cancer immunotherapy, and further demonstrate in mice that a conserved pilin from TANB77 p...

Bacteria and bacteriophages are in a constant arms race to develop bacterial defense and phage counter-defense systems. Currently known phage counter-defense systems are specific to (the activity of) ...

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The microbiota in individual habitats differ in both relative composition and absolute abundance. While sequencing approaches determine the relative a…

The code underlying the Nobel-prize-winning tool for modelling protein structures can now be downloaded by academics.

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