Weiwei Wang

TL;DR: The two main approaches for analyzing the microbiome, 16S ribosomal RNA gene amplicons and shotgun metagenomics, are illustrated with analyses of libraries designed to highlight their strengths and weaknesses and several methods for taxonomic classification of bacterial sequences are discussed.

TL;DR: Three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations reveal that the spin angular momentum of the CP laser can be transferred to the OAM of accelerated electrons and further to the emitted gamma-ray beam, which may guide future experiments in laser-driven Gamma-ray sources using micro-structures.

TL;DR: This study provides a promising metagenomic approach to describe the colonic microbiome that can be used to better understand virus–host and phage–bacteria interactions in IBD.

TL;DR: Most of the differentially expressed genes at both protein and RNA levels are recent gene duplicates (paralogous genes) with relative little difference in protein‐coding regions between orthologous genes (between genes of the two parental genomes) as compared to regulatory regions that harbor numerous indels and base substitutions.

TL;DR: An unbiased metagenomics survey using plasma from patients with chronic hepatitis B, chronic hepatitis C, autoimmune hepatitis (AIH), non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), and patients without liver disease established a reliable protocol for the identification of viruses in plasma that can also be adapted to other patient samples such as urine, bile, saliva and other body fluids.