Scott Anderson

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: A high-quality draft genome sequence of the domestic dog is reported, together with a dense map of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) across breeds, to shed light on the structure and evolution of genomes and genes.

TL;DR: It is concluded that nitroimidazopyrans offer the practical qualities of a small molecule with the potential for the treatment of tuberculosis and bactericidal activity against both replicating and static M. tuberculosis.

TL;DR: This method was developed to assemble the genome of the sea squirt Ciona savignyi, which was sequenced to a depth of 12.7 x from a single wild individual and determined that the sequenced individual had an extremely high heterozygosity rate.

TL;DR: Resources from a population of 242 healthy adults sampled at 15 or 18 body sites up to three times are presented, which have generated 5,177 microbial taxonomic profiles from 16S ribosomal RNA genes and over 3.5 terabases of metagenomic sequence so far.