A fundamental question in microbiology is whether there is continuum of genetic diversity
among genomes, or clear species boundaries prevail instead. Whole-genome similarity …

Genomic and metagenomic analyses are increasingly becoming commonplace in several
areas of biological research, but recurrent specialized analyses are frequently reported as in-…

This study explored the short-term planktonic microbial community structure and resilience in
Lake Lanier (GA, USA) while simultaneously evaluating the technical aspects of identifying …

… Rodriguez-R and Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis … Luis M. Rodriguez-R is a Ph.D.
candidate at the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics, and School of …

The composition and prevalence of microorganisms in the middle-to-upper troposphere (8–15
km altitude) and their role in aerosol-cloud-precipitation interactions represent important, …

The small subunit ribosomal RNA gene (16S rRNA) has been successfully used to
catalogue and study the diversity of prokaryotic species and communities but it offers limited …

Determining the taxonomic affiliation of sequences assembled from metagenomes remains
a major bottleneck that affects research across the fields of environmental, clinical and …

Most prokaryotes are not available as pure cultures and therefore ineligible for naming under
the rules and recommendations of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (…

Motivation: Determining the fraction of the diversity within a microbial community sampled
and the amount of sequencing required to cover the total diversity represent challenging …

The recovery of metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) from metagenomic data has
recently become a common task for microbial studies. The strengths and limitations of the …