Viral RNA metagenomics reveals the Australian bovine respiratory virome

Barbara Brito Rodriguez, Kay Anantanawat, Tony Batterham, Melinda Frost, Peter Kirkland, Edward Holmes, Aaron Darling
Metagenomic next-generation sequencing is transfor...

#metagenomics #viruses #transcriptomics #agriculture

Session Talk

The AMPSphere: antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) in the global microbiome

Célio Dias Santos-Júnior, Thomas S. B. Schmidt, Anthony Fullam, Peer Bork, Xing-Ming Zhao, Luis Pedro Coelho
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are short peptides t...

#metagenomics #microbiome #antimicrobial peptides

Tampa: interpretable analysis and visualization of metagenomics-based taxon abundance profiles

Jaqueline Brito, Varuni Sarwal, Serghei Mangul, David Koslicki
Taxonomic metagenome profiling aims to predict the...

#metagenomics #visualization #taxonomy

Recovery of complete genomes and non-chromosomal replicons from activated sludge enrichment microbial communities using Nanopore long read metagenome sequencing

Rohan Williams, Krithika Arumugam, Irina Bessarab, Mindia Haryono, Xianghui Liu, Rogelio Montanez, Samarpita Roy, Guanglei Qiu, Daniela Drautz-Moses, Yingyu Law, Stefan Wuertz, Federico Lauro, Daniel Huson
New long read sequencing technologies offer huge p...

#long reads #metagenomics #wastewater

Invited Keynote

Phage genome bioinformatics

Robert Edwards
Phages, viruses that infect bacteria, experience u...

#phages #viruses #genomics #gene function

Session Talk

Over 25,000 metagenome assembled genomes reveal the development of the post-weaning pig gut microbial community

Daniela Gaio, Matthew Z. DeMaere, Kay Anantanawat, Toni A. Chapman, Steven P. Djordjevic, Aaron E. Darling
Building on a new lower-cost metagenome sequencing...

#metagenomics #microbiome #genome assembly #agriculture

Mining the wastewater microbiome with a metagenomic Hi-C approach to identify antimicrobial resistance risk in Australia

Johanna Wong, Ethan Wyrsch, Daniel Bogema, Faisal Hai, Jawad Al-Rifai, Kay Anantanawat, Matthew DeMaere, Sotirios Vasileiadis, Erica Donner, Steven Djordjevic, Aaron Darling
The rise of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a...

#metagenomics #microbiome #genome assembly #Hi-C

Invited Keynote

Microproteins, Mobile Genetic elements and Strain-level resolution in the microbiome – a path to precision medicine

Ami Bhatt
From climate change to agriculture, and human hea...

#long reads #metagenomics #microbiome #genomics #genome assembly #gene funcion

Metagenomic Geolocation with Read Signature Clustering

Timothy Chappell, Shlomo Geva, James Hogan, David Lovell, Dimitri Perrin, Andrew Trotman
Metagenomic sequencing produces large quantities o...

#metagenomics #clustering #geolocation

Accurate detection of cell free microbial DNA using a contaminant-controlled analysis framework

Enrique Zozaya-Valdés, Stephen Q. Wong, Jeanette Raleigh, Athena Hatzimihalis, Sarah Ftouni, Anthony T. Papenfuss, Shahneen Sandhu, Mark A. Dawson, Sarah-Jane Dawson
The human microbiome plays an important role in ca...

#metagenomics #microbiome #cell free DNA #cancer #disease

A multivariate method to correct for batch effects in microbiome data

Yiwen Wang, Kim-Anh Lê Cao
Microbial research has become critical to investig...

#microbiome #metagenomics #statistics #batch effects #benchmarking

A multi-step model for micobiome data with application to Parkinson's disease prediction

Xiangnan Xu, Samuel Mueller, Jean Yang, Michal Lubomski, Ryan Davis, Andrew Holmes, Carolyn Sue
Parkinson's disease (PD) is one of the most common...

#metagenomics #microbiome #disease #nutrition