Konstantinos Mavromatis

TL;DR: The Human Microbiome Project has analysed the largest cohort and set of distinct, clinically relevant body habitats so far, finding the diversity and abundance of each habitat’s signature microbes to vary widely even among healthy subjects, with strong niche specialization both within and among individuals.

TL;DR: The results strongly support the need for systematic ‘phylogenomic’ efforts to compile a phylogeny-driven ‘Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea’ in order to derive maximum knowledge from existing microbial genome data as well as from genome sequences to come.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the chain of decisions accompanying a metagenomic project from the viewpoint of the bioinformatic analysis step by step, and provide recommendations for sampling and data generation including sample and metadata collection, community profiling, construction of shotgun libraries, and sequencing strategies.

TL;DR: A functional genomic in vivo expression technology (IVET) screen provided insight into genes used by P. fluorescens in its natural environment and an improved understanding of the ecological significance of diversity within this species.

TL;DR: The integrated microbial genomes system is a new data management and analysis platform for microbial genomes provided by the Joint Genome Institute that contains both draft and complete JGI genomes integrated with other publicly available microbial genomes of all three domains of life.