Rob Knight

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reanalyzed 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing data from a large sample storage study published in 2016 and performed shotgun metagenomic sequencing on remnant DNA from this experiment.

TL;DR: A Mass Spectrometry Search Tool (MASST) is introduced, that enables the discovery of molecular relationships among accessible public metabolomics and natural product tandem mass spectrometry data (MS/MS).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the relative performance of two total nucleic acid extraction protocols with the authors' previously benchmarked protocol, and presented results comparing the cost, processing time, DNA and RNA yield, microbial community composition, limit of detection, and well-to-well contamination between these protocols.

TL;DR: This perspective explores the possibility of using Indian thali, an ancient approach to diet that provides both fiber and different phytochemicals by incorporating a variety of plant foods in different colors to restore diversity in the gut bacteria and may potentially prevent or reverse chronic disease, such as colon cancer or type 2 diabetes.

TL;DR: What Big Data is in the context of microbiome research, how this data can be transformed into knowledge about microbes and their functions in their environments, and how the knowledge can be applied to move microbiome research forward is described.