Daniel A. Cuevas

TL;DR: The Critical Assessment of Metagenome Interpretation (CAMI) challenge has engaged the global developer community to benchmark their programs on highly complex and realistic data sets, generated from ∼700 newly sequenced microorganisms and ∼600 novel viruses and plasmids and representing common experimental setups as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: It is concluded that crAssphage is a benign cosmopolitan virus that may have coevolved with the human lineage and is an integral part of the normal human gut virome.

TL;DR: A novel approach to access the SEED database using Web services, a robust API for access to genomics data is provided, without requiring large volume downloads all at once.

TL;DR: FOCUS is introduced, an agile composition based approach using non-negative least squares (NNLS) to report the organisms present in metagenomic samples and profile their abundances and the results show that the approach accurately predicts the organism present in microbial communities.

TL;DR: It is concluded that crAssphage is a benign globetrotter virus that may have co-evolved with the human lineage and an integral part of the normal human gut virome.