Polyethylene (PE) is amongst the most recalcitrant synthetic polymers, and only a limited number of microbes have been shown to utilise it as their sole carbon and energy source. Here, we investigated...

Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is the fourth most commonly used plastic worldwide. Like all plastics, post-consumer PET is poorly managed and accumulates in the environment, posing significant ecolo...

Background: Obtaining high precision while maintaining high recall is an ongoing problem for metagenomic taxonomic classification in microbial ecology research. Parameter adjustments can achieve this ...

Dalhousie Microbiome User Group (DalMUG).

Nature Methods - Phylogenetic compression achieves performant and lossless compression of massive collections of microbial genomes, facilitating fast BLAST-like search and versatile alignment tasks.

Executive orders signed since 20 January 2025 aim to end programs intended to diversify the scientific workforce via equitable and inclusive practices and processes; cut federal funding for research and innovation; and stifle scientific communications. They represent a stunning reversal of policies that have been the bedrock of the U.S. scientific research enterprise and its leadership in the world, and therefore not surprisingly they have been met with a number of legal challenges. Some of the executive orders have been blocked by temporary restraining orders, and others are pending judicial review.

Summary PICRUSt2 is a bioinformatic tool that predicts microbial functions in amplicon sequencing data using a database of annotated reference genomes. We have constructed an updated database for PICR...