Happy and grateful to have contributed to this work. Excited to share a new publication from the Sebastian Group at APC Microbiome Ireland. Many thanks to @tsbschm.bsky.social for the guidance and continued support. Congratulations to all co-authors
🚀 Excited to be part of this study! 🧪
Our research shows that a milk-derived peptide✨ can boost intestinal mucus function even with low fiber intake 🌾⬇️ — opening the door to a potential new prebiotic 🌱 for supporting gut health 💪🩺.
Our latest work is now online!
Explored how obesogenic diets, obesity, and key experimental factors (mouse vendor, sex, microbiota) influence intestinal antimicrobial peptide (AMP) expression
We've updated our recent @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social on 'Hidden but discoverable diversity in the global microbiome', led by @vishnuprasoodanan.bsky.social & @omaistrenko.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
There is a lot of undescribed prokaryotic diversity in existing whole-genome metagenomic data!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cataloguing Earth's biodiversity remains one of the most formidable challenges in biology, and the greatest diversity is expected to reside among the smallest organisms: microbes. Yet the ongoing cens...
www.biorxiv.org
Re-analysis of over 92,000 metagenomes reveals hundreds of thousands of previously undescribed Bacterial and Archaeal clades hidden in plain sight.
A clearer way to describe microbial habitats helps researchers compare #microbiome data.
A new paper in #𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 introduces microntology: 148 terms and curated annotations for 305,626 #metagenomic samples.
@tsbschm.bsky.social @embl.org @vishnuprasoodanan.bsky.social
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Our study describing `microntology` and annotations for >300k metagenomes is now online in Bioinformatics @academic.oup.com :
academic.oup.com/bioinformati...
Congratulations to @fullam.bsky.social @vishnuprasoodanan.bsky.social & @biocs.bsky.social !
See the thread below for more details.
We hope many of you will find it useful, and will continue to add data. Here's the preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... - hopefully coming soon to a NAR Database Issue near you 😅 Thanks to everyone in the @borklab.bsky.social @embl.org who contributed to this! 7/7
We just released a @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social describing the *microntology*, a lightweight controlled vocabulary that we have been using for a while to tag metagenomes with contextual data.
Study by @fullam.bsky.social @vishnuprasoodanan.bsky.social et al:
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Most microbial diversity is still missing from genome catalogues.
A new paper in @natmicrobiol.nature.com analysed 92,187 metagenomes and found that most discoverable bacterial and archaeal lineages sit in unbinned contigs.
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#Microbiome #Metagenomics
@vishnuprasoodanan.bsky.social
Metagenomic sequencing enables the in-depth study of microbes and their functions in humans, animals and the environment. While sequencing data is deposited in public databases, the associated context...
Summary. We introduce microntology v1.0, a pragmatic controlled vocabulary of 148 terms to describe microbial habitats and lifestyles, and provide manually curated microntology annotations for >300k m...
I will write more after the Easter break, but for now congratulations to @vishnuprasoodanan.bsky.social @omaistrenko.bsky.social and all other co-authors (including @fullam.bsky.social @pangenomics.bsky.social @luispedrocoelho.bsky.social @anja1.bsky.social )!
Oleksandr Maistrenko
Sebastian Schmidt
Sebastian Schmidt
Sebastian Schmidt
AbstractMotivation. Data-enabled studies of microbial ecology and evolution depend on high-quality descriptions of microbial habitats, based on curated and
