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An overlooked phenomenon: complex interactions of potential error sources on the quality of bacterial de novo genome assemblies

BMC Genomics
Background Parameters adversely affecting the contiguity and accuracy of the assemblies from Illumina next-generation sequencing (NGS) are well described.
Zoltán Rádai, Alex Váradi, Péter Takács, Nikoletta Andrea Nagy, Nicholas Schmitt, Eszter Prépost, Gábor Kardos, Levente Laczkó   +7 more
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Metagenome of a polluted river reveals a reservoir of metabolic and antibiotic resistance genes

Environmental Microbiome, 2019
Background Yamuna, a major tributary of Ganga, which flows through the national capital region of Delhi, is among the major polluted rivers in India. The accumulation of various effluents, toxic chemicals, heavy metals, and increased organic load in the ...
Parul Mittal, Vishnu Prasoodanan PK, Darshan B. Dhakan, Sanjiv Kumar, Vineet K. Sharma   +4 more
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The gut mycobiome of the Human Microbiome Project healthy cohort

Microbiome, 2017
Background Most studies describing the human gut microbiome in healthy and diseased states have emphasized the bacterial component, but the fungal microbiome (i.e., the mycobiome) is beginning to gain recognition as a fundamental part of our microbiome ...
Andrea K. Nash, Thomas A. Auchtung, Matthew C. Wong, Daniel P. Smith, Jonathan R. Gesell, Matthew C. Ross, Christopher J. Stewart, Ginger A. Metcalf, Donna M. Muzny, Richard A. Gibbs, Nadim J. Ajami, Joseph F. Petrosino   +11 more
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Hydrogen cyanide in the rhizosphere: not suppressing plant pathogens, but rather regulating availability of phosphate

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2016
Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria produce chemical compounds with different benefits for the plant. Among them, HCN is recognized as a biocontrol agent, based on its ascribed toxicity against plant pathogens.
Tomaž Rijavec, Tomaž Rijavec, Aleš Lapanje, Aleš Lapanje, Aleš Lapanje   +4 more
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subMG automates data submission for metagenomics studies

BioData Mining
Background Publicly available metagenomics datasets are crucial for ensuring the reproducibility of scientific findings and supporting contemporary large-scale studies.
Tom Tubbesing, Andreas Schlüter, Alexander Sczyrba   +2 more
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IL17eScan: A Tool for the Identification of Peptides Inducing IL-17 Response

Frontiers in Immunology, 2017
IL-17 cytokines are pro-inflammatory cytokines and are crucial in host defense against various microbes. Induction of these cytokines by microbial antigens has been investigated in the case of ischemic brain injury, gingivitis, candidiasis, autoimmune ...
Sudheer Gupta, Parul Mittal, Midhun K. Madhu, Vineet K. Sharma   +3 more
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A study of innate immune kinetics reveals a role for a chloride transporter in a virulent Francisella tularensis type B strain

MicrobiologyOpen, 2021
Tularemia is a zoonotic disease of global proportions. Francisella tularensis subspecies tularensis (type A) and holarctica (type B) cause disease in healthy humans, with type A infections resulting in higher mortality.
Lisa M. Matz, Joseph F. Petrosino
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The Gene Catalog and Comparative Analysis of Gut Microbiome of Big Cats Provide New Insights on Panthera Species

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020
Majority of metagenomic studies in the last decade have focused on revealing the gut microbiomes of humans, rodents, and ruminants; however, the gut microbiome and genic information (gene catalog) of large felids such as Panthera species are largely ...
Parul Mittal, Rituja Saxena, Atul Gupta, Shruti Mahajan, Vineet K. Sharma   +4 more
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Longitudinal study of the scalp microbiome suggests coconut oil to enrich healthy scalp commensals

Scientific Reports, 2021
Dandruff is a recurrent chronic scalp disorder, affecting majority of the population worldwide. Recently a metagenomic study of the Indian scalp microbiome described an imperative role of bacterial commensals in providing essential vitamins and amino ...
Rituja Saxena, Parul Mittal, Cecile Clavaud, Darshan B. Dhakan, Nita Roy, Lionel Breton, Namita Misra, Vineet K. Sharma   +7 more
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Gut Microbiota in Type 2 Diabetes and Metabolic Disorders: Sources of Heterogeneity and Ways to Resolve Contradictions in Research

Diabetology
Metabolic diseases, including obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus, represent a major global health burden and are closely linked to the composition and function of the gut microbiota.
Ekaterina Nesterova, Maria Gladkikh, Inna Burakova, Olga Korneeva, Polina Morozova, Mikhail Syromyatnikov   +5 more
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