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Rob Knight

Researcher at University of California, San Diego

Publications -  1188
Citations -  322479

Rob Knight is an academic researcher from University of California, San Diego. The author has contributed to research in topics: Microbiome & Biology. The author has an hindex of 201, co-authored 1061 publications receiving 253207 citations. Previous affiliations of Rob Knight include Anschutz Medical Campus & University of Sydney.

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Bacterial and Chemical Evidence of Coastal Water Pollution from the Tijuana River in Sea Spray Aerosol

TL;DR: In this article , 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing was used to detect sewage-associated bacteria in the polluted Tijuana River flowing into coastal waters and returning to land in marine aerosol.
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Utilizing stability criteria in choosing feature selection methods yields reproducible results in microbiome data.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare the performance of popular model prediction metrics (MSE or AUC) with proposed reproducibility criterion Stability in evaluating four widely used feature selection methods in both simulations and experimental microbiome applications with continuous or binary outcomes.
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Reply to Sun et al., "Identifying Composition Novelty in Microbiome Studies: Improvement of Prediction Accuracy".

TL;DR: To quantitatively measure the beta diversities between microbiomes, Microbiome Search Engine (MSE) calculates phylogeny similarity using operational taxonomy unit (OTU) profiles and the speed is optimized by nonrecursive computing to enable real-time responses.
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The Gut Microbial Bile Acid Modulation and Its Relevance to Digestive Health and Diseases

TL;DR: The human gut microbiome has been linked to numerous digestive disorders, but its metabolic products have been much less well characterized, in part due to the expense of untargeted metabolomics and lack of ability to process the data as discussed by the authors .