The sourmash Python package produces many outputs that describe the content and similarity of sequencing data. We developed a new R package, sourmashconsumr, that lets a wider range of users easily load, analyze, and visualize those outputs in R.
Adair L. Borges, Rachel J. Dutton, Elizabeth A. McDaniel, Taylor Reiter, and Emily C.P. Weiss
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Published: Mar 11, 2023
How do you approach getting a microbiome set up in a new lab? We’re sharing protocols for how we collected, stocked, and sequenced a set of cheese rind microbiomes and generated a high-quality metagenomics resource for future computational studies.
Seeing how microbes are organized within a community can inspire hypotheses about how species interact with each other. We used HiPR-FISH spatial imaging to look at the distribution of microbes within five distinct microbial communities growing on the surface of aged cheeses.
We want to seamlessly process and summarize metagenomics data from Illumina or Nanopore technologies. We built a Nextflow workflow that handles common metagenomics tasks and produces useful outputs and intuitive visualizations.
Prachee Avasthi, Rachel J. Dutton, Taylor Reiter, and Emily C.P. Weiss
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Published: Jul 20, 2023
We are interested in neuroactive metabolites that influence animal behavior. Some fungi have horizontally transferred neuroactive metabolite pathways between species. We used a horizontal gene transfer detection pipeline to screen for novel fungal genes tied to neuroactivity.
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is the exchange of DNA between species. It can lead to the acquisition of new gene functions, so finding HGT events can reveal genome novelty. preHGT is a pipeline that uses multiple existing methods to quickly screen for transferred genes.
Adair L. Borges, Rachel J. Dutton, Elizabeth A. McDaniel, Atanas Radkov, Taylor Reiter, and Emily C.P. Weiss
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Published: Jul 19, 2023
We sampled cheese microbial communities to discover bacteriophages with unusual genome chemistries. We isolated 114 bacterial host strains and 17 phages, and identified one phage with a probable arabinose hypermodification of hydroxymethylcytosine.
Prachee Avasthi, Feridun Mert Celebi, Elizabeth A. McDaniel, Kira E. Poskanzer, Michael E. Reitman, and Emily C.P. Weiss
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Published: Dec 20, 2023
Some human proteins are encoded by genes with repetitive sequences, which, if they expand, damage the nervous system and cause disorders like Huntington’s disease. We found animals with similar proteins that have more repeats than we’ve ever seen in healthy people.
Prachee Avasthi, Brae M. Bigge, Feridun Mert Celebi, Keith Cheveralls, Jase Gehring, Erin McGeever, Gilad Mishne, Atanas Radkov, and 1 more
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Published: Sep 29, 2023
The ProteinCartography pipeline identifies proteins related to a query protein using sequence- and structure-based searches, compares all protein structures, and creates a navigable map that can be used to look at protein relationships and make hypotheses about function.
Feridun Mert Celebi, Seemay Chou, Elizabeth A. McDaniel, Taylor Reiter, and Emily C.P. Weiss
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Published: Feb 24, 2024
We previously released a draft genome assembly for the lone star tick, A. americanum. We've now predicted genes from this assembly to use for downstream functional characterization and comparative genomics efforts.
Adair L. Borges, Feridun Mert Celebi, Keith Cheveralls, Seemay Chou, Taylor Reiter, and Emily C.P. Weiss
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Published: Aug 08, 2024
Peptigate predicts bioactive peptides from transcriptomes. It integrates existing tools to predict sORF-encoded peptides, cleavage peptides, and RiPPs, then annotates them for bioactivity and other properties. We welcome feedback on expanding its capabilities.