Ahmed A. Zayed

TL;DR: An ∼12-fold expanded global ocean DNA virome dataset is established of 195,728 viral populations, now including the Arctic Ocean, and it is validated that these populations form discrete genotypic clusters.

TL;DR: VirSorter2 as mentioned in this paper is a DNA and RNA virus identification tool that leverages genome-informed database advances across a collection of customized automatic classifiers to improve the accuracy and range of virus sequence detection.

TL;DR: DRAM (Distilled and Refined Annotation of Metabolism) is presented, a framework to translate the deluge of microbiome-based genomic information into a catalog of microbial traits and provides critical metabolic profiling capabilities that decipher mechanisms underpinning microbiome function.

TL;DR: The GVD meta-analyses show highly personalized viromes, reveal that inter-study variability from technical artifacts is larger than any “disease” effect at the population level, and document how viral diversity changes from human infancy into senescence.

TL;DR: Analysis of more than 1,500 microbial genomes sheds light on the processing of carbon released as permafrost thaws, and links changing biogeochemistry to specific microbial lineages involved in carbon processing, and provides key information for predicting the effects of climate change onpermafrost systems.