Rob Knight

TL;DR: A fresh look at the universal question "What happens when the authors die" is taken at the level of individual cells in the immune system.

TL;DR: The results show that UniFrac can extract meaningful biological patterns from even phylogenies with high level of statistical inaccuracy and horizontal gene transfer, and that, overall, the pattern of tRNA evolution tracks universal phylogeny and provides a background against which to test hypotheses about the evolution of individual isoacceptors.

TL;DR: Results from single versus triplicate reactions for 16S amplicon sequencing are directly compared and there is no significant impact of adopting a less labor-intensive single-reaction protocol.

TL;DR: The notion of "correspondence" is introduced, which is an equivalence relation between RNA elements in sets of sequences as the basis of an RNA alignment ontology, to enable the development of new representations of RNA data and of software tools that resolve the expansion problems with current RNA sequence alignments.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compiled 42 actinobacterial metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) from new and existing metagenomic datasets and proposed three novel classes, Ca. Aquicultoria, C. Geothermincolia and Ca. Humimicrobiia.