Rob Knight

TL;DR: There is mounting evidence for a connection between the gut and Parkinson's disease (PD).

TL;DR: A Primer for researchers from diverse disciplines interested in conducting microbiome research discusses factors to be considered in the design, execution, and data analysis of microbiome studies.

TL;DR: Analysis of surface soils collected across a range of biomes in Antarctica, Europe, and the Americas shows that Verrucomicrobia appear to be dominant in many soil bacterial communities across the globe, making additional research on their ecology clearly necessary.

TL;DR: This work reviews how contaminant DNA and cross-contamination arise within microbiome studies and discusses their negative impacts, especially during the analysis of low microbial biomass samples, and puts forward a set of minimal experimental criteria, the 'RIDE' checklist, to improve the validity of futureLow microbial biomass research.

TL;DR: This work uses three large 16S rRNA datasets to test whether taxonomic information based on the full-length sequences can be recaptured by short reads that simulate the pyrosequencer outputs, and finds that different taxonomic assignment methods vary radically in their ability to recapture the taxonomic Information.