Despite advances in sequencing, lack of standardization makes comparisons across studies
challenging and hampers insights into the structure and function of microbial communities …

Cancer-microbe associations have been explored for centuries, but cancer-associated fungi
have rarely been examined. Here, we comprehensively characterize the cancer mycobiome …

Human untargeted metabolomics studies annotate only ~10% of molecular features. We
introduce reference-data-driven analysis to match metabolomics tandem mass spectrometry (…

Lifestyle factors, such as diet, strongly influence the structure, diversity, and composition of
the microbiome. While we have witnessed over the last several years a resurgence of interest …

Microbial communities contain a broad phylogenetic diversity of organisms; however, the
majority of methods center on describing bacteria and archaea. Fungi are important symbionts …

Background SARS-CoV-2 is an RNA virus responsible for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
pandemic. Viruses exist in complex microbial environments, and recent studies …

Bacterial endosymbionts occur in diverse fungi, including members of many lineages of
Ascomycota that inhabit living plants. These endosymbiotic bacteria (endohyphal bacteria, EHB) …

We introduce the operational genomic unit (OGU) method, a metagenome analysis strategy
that directly exploits sequence alignment hits to individual reference genomes as the …

We aimed to determine if the newborn gut microbiota is an underlying determinant of early
life growth trajectories. 132 Hispanic infants were recruited at 1-month postpartum. The infant …

Epidemiological studies in adults have shown that exposure to ambient air pollution (AAP)
is associated with the composition of the adult gut microbiome, but these relationships have …