Publications

2021

  1. Krupovic M, Turner D, Morozova V, Dyall-Smith M, Oksanen HM, Edwards R, Dutilh BE, Lehman SM, Reyes A, Baquero DP, Sullivan MB, Uchiyama J, Nakavuma J, Barylski J, Young MJ, Du S, Alfenas-Zerbini P, Kushkina A, Kropinski AM, Kurtböke I, Brister JR, Lood C, Sarkar BL, Yigang T, Liu Y, Huang L, Wittmann J, Chanishvili N, van Zyl LJ, Rumnieks J, Mochizuki T, Jalasvuori M, Aziz RK, Łobocka M, Stedman KM, Shkoporov AN, Gillis A, Peng X, Enault F, Knezevic P, Lavigne R, Rhee S-K, Cvirkaite-Krupovic V, Moraru C, Moreno Switt AI, Poranen MM, Millard A, Prangishvili D, Adriaenssens EM. 2021. Bacterial Viruses Subcommittee and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee of the ICTV: update of taxonomy changes in 2021. Arch Virol https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-021-05205-9. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00705-021-05205-9 
  2. Roach MJ, McNair K, Giles SK, Inglis LK, Pargin E, Roux S, Decewicz P, Edwards RA. 2021. Philympics 2021: Prophage predictions perplex programs. F1000Res 10:758. https://f1000research.com/articles/10-758 https://f1000research.altmetric.com/details/111247817 
  3. Coutinho FH, Zaragoza-Solas A, López-Pérez M, Barylski J, Zielezinski A, Dutilh BE, Edwards R, Rodriguez-Valera F. 2021. RaFAH: Host prediction for viruses of Bacteria and Archaea based on protein content. Patterns (N Y) 2:100274. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666389921001008 
  4. Roach M, Cantu A, Vieri MK, Cotten M, Kellam P, Phan M, Hoek L van der, Mandro M, Tepage F, Mambandu G, Musinya G, Laudisoit A, Colebunders R, Edwards R, Mokili JL. 2021. No Evidence Known Viruses Play a Role in the Pathogenesis of Onchocerciasis-Associated Epilepsy. An Explorative Metagenomic Case-Control Study. Pathogens 10:787. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0817/10/7/787 
  5. Cantu VA, Salamon P, Seguritan V, Redfield J, Salamon D, Edwards RA, Segall AM. 2020. PhANNs, a fast and accurate tool and web server to classify phage structural proteins. PLoS Comput Biol 16:e1007845. https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007845 
  6. McNair K, Ecale Zhou CL, Souza B, Malfatti S, Edwards RA. 2021. Utilizing Amino Acid Composition and Entropy of Potential Open Reading Frames to Identify Protein-Coding Genes. Microorganisms 9. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/9/1/129#abstract 
  7. Cazares D, Cazares A, Figueroa W, Guarneros G, Edwards RA, Vinuesa P. 2021. A Novel Group of Promiscuous Podophages Infecting Diverse gammaproteobacteria from River Communities Exhibits Dynamic Intergenus Host Adaptation. mSystems 6. https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSystems.00773-20 

2020

  1. Martí-Carreras J, Gener AR, Miller SD, Brito AF, Camacho CE, Connor R, Deboutte W, Glickman C, Kristensen DM, Meyer WK, Modha S, Norris AL, Saha S, Belford AK, Biederstedt E, Brister JR, Buchmann JP, Cooley NP, Edwards RA, Javkar K, Muchow M, Muralidharan HS, Pepe-Ranney C, Shah N, Shakya M, Tisza MJ, Tully BJ, Vanmechelen B, Virta VC, Weissman JL, Zalunin V, Efremov A, Busby B. 2020. NCBI’s Virus Discovery Codeathon: Building “FIVE” —The Federated Index of Viral Experiments API Index. Viruses 12:1424. https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/12/12/1424 
  2. Rojas MI, Cavalcanti GS, McNair K, Benler S, Alker AT, Cobián-Güemes AG, Giluso M, Levi K, Rohwer F, Bailey BA, Beyhan S, Edwards RA, Shikuma NJ. 2020. A Distinct Contractile Injection System Gene Cluster Found in a Majority of Healthy Adult Human Microbiomes. mSystems 5.
  3. Luong T, Salabarria A-C, Edwards RA, Roach DR. 2020. Standardized bacteriophage purification for personalized phage therapy. Nat Protoc 15:2867–2890.
  4. Johri S, Fellows SR, Solanki J, Busch A, Livingston I, Mora MF, Tiwari A, Cantu VA, Goodman A, Morris MM, Doane MP, Edwards RA, Dinsdale EA. 2020. Mitochondrial genome to aid species delimitation and effective conservation of the Sharpnose Guitarfish (Glaucostegus granulatus). Meta Gene 24:100648.
  5. Doane M, Haggerty JM, da Silva Lopes CR, Yates P, Edwards R, Dinsdale E, Lopes FAC, Bruce T. 2020. Latitude and chlorophyll a density drive the distribution of carbohydrate-active enzymes in the planktonic microbial fraction of the epipelagic zone. Environ Microbiol Rep https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-2229.12865. https://sfamjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1758-2229.12865 https://www.altmetric.com/details/85099119 
  6. Kuang E, Marney M, Cuevas D, Edwards RA, Forsberg EM. 2020. Towards Predicting Gut Microbial Metabolism: Integration of Flux Balance Analysis and Untargeted Metabolomics. Metabolites 10:156. https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1989/10/4/156  https://www.altmetric.com/details/80335830 
  7. Doane MP, Morris MM, Papudeshi B, Allen L, Pande D, Haggerty JM, Johri S, Turnlund AC, Peterson M, Kacev D, Nosal A, Ramirez D, Hovel K, Ledbetter J, Alker A, Avalos J, Baker K, Bhide S, Billings E, Byrum S, Clemens M, Demery AJ, Lima LFO, Gomez O, Gutierrez O, Hinton S, Kieu D, Kim A, Loaiza R, Martinez A, McGhee J, Nguyen K, Parlan S, Pham A, Price-Waldman R, Edwards RA, Dinsdale EA. 2020. The skin microbiome of elasmobranchs follows phylosymbiosis, but in teleost fishes, the microbiomes converge. Microbiome 8:93. https://microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40168-020-00840-x https://www.altmetric.com/details/84018421
  8. French BJ, Lim YW, Zgliczynski BJ, Edwards RA, Rohwer F, Sandin SA. 2020. Decoding diversity in a coral reef fish species complex with restricted range using metagenomic sequencing of gut contents. Ecol Evol 10:3413–3423. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.6138 https://www.altmetric.com/details/77344397 
  9. Adriaenssens EM, Sullivan MB, Knezevic P, van Zyl LJ, Sarkar BL, Dutilh BE, Alfenas-Zerbini P, Łobocka M, Tong Y, Brister JR, Moreno Switt AI, Klumpp J, Aziz RK, Barylski J, Uchiyama J, Edwards RA, Kropinski AM, Petty NK, Clokie MRJ, Kushkina AI, Morozova VV, Duffy S, Gillis A, Rumnieks J, Kurtböke İ, Chanishvili N, Goodridge L, Wittmann J, Lavigne R, Jang HB, Prangishvili D, Enault F, Turner D, Poranen MM, Oksanen HM, Krupovic M. 2020. Taxonomy of prokaryotic viruses: 2018-2019 update from the ICTV Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee. Arch Virol.
  10. Lima LFO, Weissman M, Reed M, Papudeshi B, Alker AT, Morris MM, Edwards RA, de Putron S, Vaidya NK, Dinsdale EA. 2020. Modeling of the coral microbiome: the influence of temperature and microbial network. mBio 11:e02691-19. https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.02691-19.
  11. Silveira CB, Coutinho FH, Cavalcanti GS, Benler S, Doane MP, Dinsdale EA, Edwards RA, Francini-Filho RB, Thompson CC, Luque A, Rohwer FL, Thompson F. 2020. Genomic and ecological attributes of marine bacteriophages encoding bacterial virulence genes. BMC Genomics 21:126. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12864-020-6523-2 https://www.altmetric.com/details/75130073

Barylski J, Enault F, Dutilh BE, Schuller MB, Edwards RA, Gillis A, Klumpp J, Knezevic P, Krupovic M, Kuhn JH, Lavigne R, Oksanen HM, Sullivan MB, Jang HB, Simmonds P, Aiewsakun P, Wittmann J, Tolstoy I, Brister JR, Kropinski AM, Adriaenssens EM. 2020. Analysis of Spounaviruses as a Case Study for the Overdue Reclassification of Tailed Phages. Syst Biol 69:110–123. https://academic.oup.com/sysbio/article/69/1/110/5498714https://oxfordjournals.altmetric.com/details/61191939

2019

  1. Edwards RA, Vega AA, Norman HM, Ohaeri M, Levi K, Dinsdale EA, Cinek O, Aziz RK, McNair K, Barr JJ, Bibby K, Brouns SJJ, Cazares A, de Jonge PA, Desnues C, Díaz Muñoz SL, Fineran PC, Kurilshikov A, Lavigne R, Mazankova K, McCarthy DT, Nobrega FL, Reyes Muñoz A, Tapia G, Trefault N, Tyakht AV, Vinuesa P, Wagemans J, Zhernakova A, Aarestrup FM, Ahmadov G, Alassaf A, Anton J, Asangba A, Billings EK, Cantu VA, Carlton JM, Cazares D, Cho G-S, Condeff T, Cortés P, Cranfield M, Cuevas DA, De la Iglesia R, Decewicz P, Doane MP, Dominy NJ, Dziewit L, Elwasila BM, Eren AM, Franz C, Fu J, Garcia-Aljaro C, Ghedin E, Gulino KM, Haggerty JM, Head SR, Hendriksen RS, Hill C, Hyöty H, Ilina EN, Irwin MT, Jeffries TC, Jofre J, Junge RE, Kelley ST, Khan Mirzaei M, Kowalewski M, Kumaresan D, Leigh SR, Lipson D, Lisitsyna ES, Llagostera M, Maritz JM, Marr LC, McCann A, Molshanski-Mor S, Monteiro S, Moreira-Grez B, Morris M, Mugisha L, Muniesa M, Neve H, Nguyen N-P, Nigro OD, Nilsson AS, O’Connell T, Odeh R, Oliver A, Piuri M, Prussin AJ II, Qimron U, Quan Z-X, Rainetova P, Ramírez-Rojas A, Raya R, Reasor K, Rice GAO, Rossi A, Santos R, Shimashita J, Stachler EN, Stene LC, Strain R, Stumpf R, Torres PJ, Twaddle A, Ugochi Ibekwe M, Villagra N, Wandro S, White B, Whiteley A, Whiteson KL, Wijmenga C, Zambrano MM, Zschach H, Dutilh BE. 2019. Global phylogeography and ancient evolution of the widespread human gut virus crAssphage. Nature Microbiology.DOI: 10.1038/s41564-019-0494-6 [Read at Nature Micro | bioRxiv | ResearchGate] [Funding includes an XSEDE Jetstream allocation MCB170036; SDSU Grants Programs including the Summer Undergraduate Research Program; NSF MCB-1330800 and DUE-1323809 ; DOE LLNL grant B618146]
  2. McNair K, Zhou C, Dinsdale EA, Souza B, Edwards RA. 2019. PHANOTATE: a novel approach to gene identification in phage genomes. Bioinformatics btz265. [Funding DTRA10027-20149 and NSF DUE-1259951]
  3. de Chaves MG, Silva GGZ, Rossetto R, Edwards RA, Tsai SM, Navarrete AA. 2019. Acidobacteria Subgroups and Their Metabolic Potential for Carbon Degradation in Sugarcane Soil Amended With Vinasse and Nitrogen Fertilizers. Front Microbiol 10:1680. [Read at Frontiers | PubMed Central].
  4. Barylski J, Enault F, Dutilh BE, Schuller MBP, Edwards RA, Gillis A, Klumpp J, Knezevic P, Krupovic M, Kuhn JH, Lavigne R, Oksanen HM, Sullivan MB, Jang HB, Simmonds P, Aiewsakun P, Wittmann J, Tolstoy I, Brister JR, Kropinski AM, Adriaenssens EM. 2019. Analysis of Spounaviruses as a Case Study for the Overdue Reclassification of Tailed Phages. Syst Biol. pii: syz036. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syz036 [Funding NSF DUE-132809 and MCB-1330800]
  5. Cobián Güemes AG, Lim YW, Quinn RA, Conrad DJ, Benler S, Maughan H, Edwards R, Brettin T, Cantú VA, Cuevas D, Hamidi R, Dorrestein P, Rohwer F. 2019. Cystic Fibrosis Rapid Response: Translating Multi-omics Data into Clinically Relevant Information. MBio 10. DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00431-19
  6. Kelly LW, Nelson CE, Haas AF, Naliboff DS, Calhoun S, Carlson CA, Edwards RA, Fox MD, Hatay M, Johnson MD, Kelly ELA, Lim YW, Macherla S, Quinlan ZA, Silva GGZ, Vermeij MJA, Zgliczynski B, Sandin SA, Smith JE, Rohwer F. 2019. Diel population and functional synchrony of microbial communities on coral reefs. Nat Commun 10:1691. DOI https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09419-z
  7. Lorenzi AS, Chia MA, Lopes FAC, Silva GGZ, Edwards RA, Bittencourt-Oliveira M do C. 2019. Cyanobacterial biodiversity of semiarid public drinking water supply reservoirs assessed via next-generation DNA sequencing technology. J Microbiol. 57: 450. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12275-019-8349-7 [Read at Springer | ResearchGate ] [Funding NSF Grants CNS-1305112, MCB-1330800, and DUE-132809].
  8. Johri S, Solanki J, Cantu VA, Fellows SR, Edwards RA, Moreno I, Vyas A, Dinsdale EA. 2019. “Genome skimming” with the MinION hand-held sequencer identifies CITES-listed shark species in India’s exports market. Sci Rep 9:4476. [Featured in National Geographic]

2018

  1. Benler S, Cobián-Güemes AG, McNair K, Hung S-H, Levi K, Edwards R, Rohwer F. 2018. A diversity-generating retroelement encoded by a globally ubiquitous Bacteroides phage. Microbiome 6:191. [Read at BMC | PMC | ResearchGate ] [Funding XSEDE allocation TG-MCB170036]
  2. Cuevas DA, Edwards RA. 2018. Growth Score: a single metric to define growth in 96-well phenotype assays. PeerJ 6:e4681. [Read at PMC | PeerJ] [Funding NSF CNS-1305112 and MCB-1330800]
  3. Levi K, Rynge M, Abeysinghe E, Edwards RA. 2018. Searching the Sequence Read Archive using Jetstream and Wrangler, p. 50. In Proceedings of the Practice and Experience on Advanced Research Computing. ACM. DOI: 10.1145/3219104.3229278 [Read at ACM | ResearchGate] [Funding NSF XSEDE TG-MCB17003]
  4. Melo-Nascimento AODS, Treumann C, Neves C, Andrade E, Andrade AC, Edwards R, Dinsdale E, Bruce T. 2018. Functional characterization of ligninolytic Klebsiella spp. strains associated with soil and freshwater. Arch Microbiol 200:1267–1278. [Read at Springer | ResearchGate] [Funding NSF MCB-13330800]
  5. Adriaenssens EM, Wittmann J, Kuhn JH, Turner D, Sullivan MB, Dutilh BE, Jang HB, van Zyl LJ, Klumpp J, Lobocka M, Moreno Switt AI, Rumnieks J, Edwards RA, Uchiyama J, Alfenas-Zerbini P, Petty NK, Kropinski AM, Barylski J, Gillis A, Clokie MRC, Prangishvili D, Lavigne R, Aziz RK, Duffy S, Krupovic M, Poranen MM, Knezevic P, Enault F, Tong Y, Oksanen HM, Rodney Brister J. 2018. Taxonomy of prokaryotic viruses: 2017 update from the ICTV Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee. Arch Virol 163:1125–1129. [Read at Springer | ResearchGate] [Funding NSF MCB-13330800]
  6. Barylski J, Enault F, Dutilh BE, Schuller MBP, Edwards RA, Gillis A, Klumpp J, Knezevic P, Krupovic M, Kuhn JH, Lavigne R, Oksanen HM, Sullivan MB, Jang HB, Simmonds P, Aiewsakun P, Wittmann J, Tolstoy I, Rodney Brister J, Kropinski AM, Adriaenssens EM. 2018. Taxonomy proposal: To create one (1) new family, Herelleviridae, in the order CaudoviralesICTV Online: International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). [Read at Helsinki | ResearchGate]
  7. Zhang S, Ratliff EP, Molina B, El-Mecharrafie N, Mastroianni J, Kotzebue RW, Achal M, Mauntz RE, Gonzalez A, Barekat A, Bray WA, Macias AM, Daugherty D, Harris GL, Edwards RA, Finley KD. 2018. Aging and Intermittent Fasting Impact on Transcriptional Regulation and Physiological Responses of Adult Drosophila Neuronal and Muscle Tissues. Int J Mol Sci 19. [Read at MDPI | PMC | ResearchGate]
  8. Yutin N, Makarova KS, Gussow AB, Krupovic M, Segall A, Edwards RA, Koonin EV. 2018. Discovery of an expansive bacteriophage family that includes the most abundant viruses from the human gut. Nat Microbiol 3:38–46. doi: 10.1038/s41564-017-0053-y. Epub 2017 Nov 13. [Read at Nature Microbiology | PMC | ResearchGate]
  9. McNair K, Aziz RK, Pusch GD, Overbeek R, Dutilh BE, Edwards R. 2018. Phage Genome Annotation Using the RAST Pipeline, p. 231–238. In Clokie, MRJ, Kropinski, AM, Lavigne, R (eds.), Bacteriophages: Methods and Protocols, Volume 3. Springer New York, New York, NY. [Read at Springer | ResearchGate]

2017

  1. Papudeshi B, Haggerty JM, Doane M, Morris MM, Walsh K, Beattie DT, Pande D, Zaeri P, Silva GGZ, Thompson F, Edwards RA, Dinsdale EA. 2017. Optimizing and evaluating the reconstruction of Metagenome-assembled microbial genomes. BMC Genomics 18:915. DOI: 10.1186/s12864-017-4294-1 [Read at BMC | ResearchGate] [Funding NSF DUE-1323809, MCB-1330800, CNS-1305112]
  2. Akhter S, Aziz RK, Kashef MT, Ibrahim ES, Bailey B, Edwards RA. 2017. Kullback Leibler divergence in complete bacterial and phage genomes. PeerJ 5:e4026. [Read at PeerJ | PMC | ResearchGate] [Funding NSF DBI-0850356 and MCB-1330800].
  3. Sczyrba A, Hofmann P, Belmann P, Koslicki D, Janssen S, Dröge J, Gregor I, Majda S, Fiedler J, Dahms E, Bremges A, Fritz A, Garrido-Oter R, Jørgensen TS, Shapiro N, Blood PD, Gurevich A, Bai Y, Turaev D, DeMaere MZ, Chikhi R, Nagarajan N, Quince C, Meyer F, Balvočiūtė M, Hansen LH, Sørensen SJ, Chia BKH, Denis B, Froula JL, Wang Z, Egan R, Don Kang D, Cook JJ, Deltel C, Beckstette M, Lemaitre C, Peterlongo P, Rizk G, Lavenier D, Wu Y-W, Singer SW, Jain C, Strous M, Klingenberg H, Meinicke P, Barton MD, Lingner T, Lin H-H, Liao Y-C, Silva GGZ, Cuevas DA, Edwards RA, Saha S, Piro VC, Renard BY, Pop M, Klenk H-P, Göker M, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Vorholt JA, Schulze-Lefert P, Rubin EM, Darling AE, Rattei T, McHardy AC. 2017. Critical Assessment of Metagenome Interpretation-a benchmark of metagenomics software. Nat Methods 14:1063–1071. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.4458 [Read at Nature Methods | ResearchGate]
  4. Torres PJ, Edwards RA, McNair KA. PARTIE: a partition engine to separate metagenomic and amplicon projects in the Sequence Read Archive. Bioinformatics. Aug 1;33(15):2389-2391. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btx184 [Read at PMC | PeerJ |ResearchGate] [Funding NSF MCB-1330800 and DUE-132809]
  5. Zlamal JE, Raab TK, Little M, Edwards RA, Lipson DA. 2017. Biological chlorine cycling in the Arctic Coastal Plain. Biogeochemistry 134: 243. DOI 10.1007/s10533-017-0359-0 [Read at Springer | ResearchGate] [Funding NSF 0808604, 1204263 and 1712774]
  6. Riedl RA, Burnett CM, Pearson NA, Atkinson SN, Ollinger TL, Silva GG, Edwards RA, Mokadem M, Kirby JR, Grobe JL. 2017. Dietary Fat and Carbohydrate Content Modulate Energy Expenditure via Gut Bacteria. FASEB J 31:890.3-890.3.
  7. Riedl RA, Burnett CM, Pearson NA, Atkinson SN, Ollinger TL, Edwards RA, Mokadem M, Kirby JR, Grobe JL. 2017. The Biomass and Composition of the Gut Microbiota Modify Anaerobic Metabolism. FASEB J 31:890.2-890.2.
  8. Pearson NA, Riedl RA, Atkinson SN, Ollinger TL, Burnett CM, Edwards RA, Mokadem M, Kirby JR, Grobe JL. 2017. Surgical Removal of Gut Bacteria Biomass Promotes Weight Gain via Suppression of Energy Expenditure. FASEB J 31:890.1-890.
  9. Coutinho FH, Silveira CB, Gregoracci GB, Thompson CC, Edwards RA, Brussaard CPD, Dutilh BE, Thompson FL. 2017. Marine viruses discovered via metagenomics shed light on viral strategies throughout the oceans. Nat Commun 8:15955. doi: 10.1038/ncomms15955 [Read at Nature Communications | PMC | ResearchGate
  10. Silveira CB, Gregoracci GB, Coutinho FH, Silva GGZ, Haggerty JM, de Oliveira LS, Cabral AS, Rezende CE, Thompson CC, Francini-Filho RB, Edwards RA, Dinsdale EA, Thompson FL. 2017. Bacterial Community Associated with the Reef Coral Mussismilia braziliensis’s Momentum Boundary Layer over a Diel Cycle. Front Microbiol 8:784. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.00784 [Read at Frontiers | PMC | ResearchGate] [Funding NSF DUE-1323809, MCB-1330800, and  CNS-1305112]
  11. Knowles B, Bailey B, Boling L, Breitbart M, Cobián-Güemes A, Del Campo J, Edwards R, Felts B, Grasis J, Haas AF, Katira P, Kelly LW, Luque A, Nulton J, Paul L, Peters G, Robinett N, Sandin S, Segall A, Silveira C, Youle M, Rohwer F. 2017. Variability and host density independence in inductions-based estimates of environmental lysogeny. Nat Microbiol 2:17064. [Read at Nature Microbiology | ResearchGate]
  12. Cuevas, D.A. and Edwards, R.A. (2017). PMAnalyzer: a new web interface for bacterial growth curve analysis. Bioinformatics. (doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btx084). [Funding: NSF grants CNS-1305112 and MCB-1330800]

2016

  1. Cuevas, D.A., Edirisinghe, J., Henry, C.S., Overbeek, R., O’Connell, T.G., and Edwards, R.A. (2016). From DNA to FBA: How to Build Your Own Genome-Scale Metabolic Model. Front. Microbiol. 907. (doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00907). [Funding: NSF grants CNS-1305112 and MCB-1330800, and DUE-1259951]
  2. art Krupovic, Bas E Dutilh, Evelien M Adriaenssens, Johannes Wittmann, Finn K Vogensen, Mathew B Sullivan, Janis Rumnieks, David Prangishvili, Rob Lavigne, Andrew M Kropinski, Jochen Klumpp, Annika Gillis, Francois Enault, Rob A Edwards, Siobain Duffy, Martha RC Clokie, Jakub Barylski, Hans-Wolfgang Ackermann, Jens H Kuhn. Microbial Community Profile and Water Quality in a Protected Area of the Caatinga Biome. Arch Virol. 2016 Jan 5. DOI: 10.1007/s00705-015-2728-0 [Read at Springer | ResearchGate]
  3. Fabyano Alvares Cardoso Lopes, Elisa Caldeira Pires Catão, Renata Henrique Santana, Anderson de Souza Cabral, Rodolfo Paranhos, Thiago Pessanha Rangel, Carlos Eduardo de Rezende, Robert A Edwards, Cristiane C Thompson, Fabiano L Thompson, Ricardo Henrique Kruger. Taxonomy of prokaryotic viruses: update from the ICTV bacterial and archaeal viruses subcommittee. PLoS One. 2016 Feb 16;11(2):e0148296. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0148296. eCollection 2016.
  4. B Knowles, CB Silveira, BA Bailey, K Barott, VA Cantu, AG Cobián-Güemes, FH Coutinho, EA Dinsdale, B Felts, KA Furby, EE George, KT Green, GB Gregoracci, AF Haas, JM Haggerty, ER Hester, N Hisakawa, LW Kelly, YW Lim, M Little, A Luque, T McDole-Somera, K McNair, LS de Oliveira, SD Quistad, NL Robinett, E Sala, P Salamon, SE Sanchez, S Sandin, GGZ Silva, J Smith, C Sullivan, C Thompson, MJA Vermeij, M Youle, C Young, B Zgliczynski, R Brainard, RA Edwards, J Nulton, F Thompson, F Rohwer. Lytic to temperate switching of viral communities. Nature. 2016 Mar 24;531(7595):466-70. doi: 10.1038/nature17193. Epub 2016 Mar 16. [Read at Nature | ResearchGate] [NSF grants CNS-1305112, MCB-1330800, and DUE-1323809]
  5. Silva, G. G. Z., Alvares, F. & Edwards, R. A. An agile functional analysis of metagenomic data using SUPER-FOCUS. Springer Book chapter – Methods in Mol. Biol. 2017;1611:35-44. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-7015-5_4 [Read at Springer | ResearchGate] [Funding NSF grants CNS-1305112, MCB-1330800, and DUE-132809]
  6. Robert Edwards Genivaldo Gueiros Z. Silva, Bas Dutilh. FOCUS2: agile and sensitive classification of metagenomics data using a reduced database, biorxiv 2016
  7. Adriana Sturion Lorenzi, Genivaldo Gueiros Z. Silva, Fabyano Alvares Cardoso Lopes, Mathias Ahii Chia, Robert A. Edwards, and Maria do Carmo Bittencourt-Oliveira: Draft genome sequence of the saxitoxin-producing cyanobacteria Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii ITEP A1 from a Brazilian semi-arid freshwater body revealing cylindrospermopsin synthetase Genes. (accepted;Genome Announcements)
  8. Lucas William Mendes, Lucas Peres Palma Braga, Acacio Aparecido Navarrete, Dennis Goss de Souza, Genivaldo Gueiros Zacarias Silva, Siu Mui Tsai. Using metagenomics to connect microbial community biodiversity and functions. Book chapter (accepted)
  9. Using viromes to predict novel immune proteins in non-model organisms. Steven D. Quistad, Yan Wei Lim, Genivaldo Gueiros Z. Silva, Craig E. Nelson, Andreas F. Haas, Linda Wegley Kelly, Robert A. Edwards, Forest L. Rohwer. Using viromes to predict novel immune proteins in non-model organisms. Proc Biol Sci. 2016 Aug 31;283(1837). pii: 20161200. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2016.1200.
  10. Edwards RA, McNair K, Faust K, Raes J, Dutilh BE. 2016. Computational approaches to predict bacteriophage-host relationships. FEMS Microbiol Rev 40:258–272. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/femsre/fuv048

2015

  1. Thomas Brettin, James J Davis, Terry Disz, Robert A Edwards, Svetlana Gerdes, Gary J Olsen, Robert Olson, Ross Overbeek, Bruce Parrello, Gordon D Pusch, Maulik Shukla, James A Thomason III, Rick Stevens, Veronika Vonstein, Alice R Wattam, Fangfang Xia. 2015 RASTtk: A modular and extensible implementation of the RAST algorithm for building custom annotation pipelines and annotating batches of genomes. Sci Rep. 5:8365. doi: 10.1038/srep08365.
  2. Aziz RK, Dwivedi B, Akhter S, Breitbart M, Edwards RA. 2015. Multidimensional metrics for estimating phage abundance, distribution, gene density, and sequence coverage in metagenomes. Front Microbiol 6:381. Front. Microbiol. | doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00381
  3. Acacio A. Navarrete, Tatiana R. Diniz, Lucas P. P. Braga, Genivaldo G. Z. Silva, Julio C. Franchinic, Raffaella Rossettod, Robert A. Edwards, Siu M. Tsai. 2015 Multi-analytical approach reveals potential microbial indicators in soil for sugarcane model systemsPLoS One. 10(6):e0129765. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0129765.
  4. Calva E, Silva C, Zaidi MB, Sanchez-Flores A, Estrada K, Silva GGZ, Soto-Jiménez LM, Wiesner M, Fernández-Mora M, Edwards RA, Vinuesa P. 2015. Complete Genome Sequencing of a Multidrug-Resistant and Human-Invasive Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Strain of the Emerging Sequence Type 213 Genotype. Genome Announc 3:e00663–15. [PMC]
  5. T. David Matthews, Robert Schmieder, Genivaldo G. Z. Silva, Julia Busch, Noriko Cassman, Matthew Doherty, Dawn Green, Brian Matlock, Brian Heffernan, Gary Olsen, Leigh Farris Hanna, Dieter Schifferli, Stanley Maloy, Elizabeth A. Dinsdale, and Robert A. Edwards. 2015 Comparison of the Closely-related Salmonella enterica Serovars Enteritidis, Dublin and Gallinarum.PLoS One. Jun 3;10(6):e0126883. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0126883. eCollection 2015.
  6. Pedro M. Meirelles, Gilberto M. Amado-Filho, Guilherme H. Pereira-Filho, Hudson T. Pinheiro, Rodrigo L. de Moura, Jean-Christophe Joyeux, Eric F. Mazzei, Alex C. Bastos, Robert A. Edwards, Elizabeth Dinsdale, Rodolfo Paranhos, Eidy O. Santos, Tetsuya Iida, Kazuyoshi Gotoh, Shota Nakamura, Tomoo Sawabe, Carlos E. Rezende, Luiz M. R. Gadelha Jr, Ronaldo B. Francini-Filho, Cristiane Thompson, Fabiano L. Thompson. 2015 Baseline Assessment of Mesophotic Reefs of the Vitória-Trindade Seamount Chain Based on Water Quality, Microbial Diversity, Benthic Cover and Fish Biomass Data PLoS One. 10(6): e0130084.
  7. Savannah E Sanchez, Daniel A Cuevas, Jason E Rostron, Tiffany Y Liang, Cullen G Pivaroff, Matthew R Haynes, Jim Nulton, Ben Felts, Barbara A Bailey, Peter Salamon, Robert A Edwards, Alex B Burgin, Anca M Segall, Forest Rohwer. 2015 Phage Phenomics: Physiological Approaches to Characterize Novel Viral Proteins. J. Vis. Exp. (100), e52854. (doi: 10.3791/52854) [Funding: NSF funding from DEB-1046413 as part of the Dimensions: Shedding Light on Viral Dark Matter project]
  8. Adriaenssens EM, Edwards R, Nash JH, Mahadevan P, Seto D, Ackermann HW, Lavigne R, Kropinski AM. 2015 Integration of genomic and proteomic analyses in the classification of the Siphoviridae family. Virology. 2015 Mar;477:144-54. doi: 10.1016/j.virol.2014.10.016. Epub 2014 Nov 14.
  9. Katelyn McNair, Robert A. Edwards. 2015 GenomePeek—an online tool for prokaryotic genome and metagenome analysis. PeerJ  3:e1025 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1025
  10. Genivaldo G. Z. Silva, Green K., B. E. Dutilh, and R. A. Edwards. 2015 SUPER-FOCUS: A tool for agile functional analysis of shotgun metagenomic data. Bioinformatics. Oct 9. pii: btv584.
  11. Andriy Kryshtafovych, John Moult, Arnaud Baslé, Alex Burgin, Timothy K Craig, Robert A Edwards, Deborah Fass, Marcus D Hartmann, Mateusz Korycinski, Richard J Lewis, Donald Lorimer, Andrei N Lupas, Janet Newman, Thomas S Peat, Kurt H Piepenbrink, Janani Prahlad, Mark J van Raaij, Forest Rohwer, Anca M Segall, Victor Seguritan, Eric J Sundberg, Abhimanyu K Singh, Mark A Wilson, Torsten Schwede. 2015 Some of the most interesting CASP11 targets through the eyes of their authors. Proteins. doi: 10.1002/prot.24942.
  12. Min Yue, Xiangan Han, Leon De Masi, Chunhong Zhu, Xun Ma, Junjie Zhang, Renwei Wu, Robert Schmieder, Radhey S Kaushik, George P Fraser, Shaohua Zhao, Patrick F McDermott, François-Xavier Weill, Jacques G Mainil, Cesar Arze, W Florian Fricke, Robert A Edwards, Dustin Brisson, Nancy R Zhang, Shelley C Rankin, Dieter M Schifferli. 2015 Allelic variation contributes to bacterial host specificity. Nat Commun. Oct 30;6:8754. doi: 10.1038/ncomms9754. 

2014

  1. Ross Overbeek, Robert Olson, Gordon D Pusch, Gary J Olsen, James J Davis, Terry Disz, Robert A Edwards, Svetlana Gerdes, Bruce Parrello, Maulik Shukla, Veronika Vonstein, Alice R Wattam, Fangfang Xia, Rick Stevens. The SEED and the Rapid Annotation of microbial genomes using Subsystems Technology (RAST). Nucleic Acids Res. 2014 Jan;42. [PMID: 24293654] [Funding: NSF DBI-0850356 and the PhAnToMe project]
  2. Yan Wei Lim, Jose S Evangelista, Robert Schmieder, Barbara Bailey, Matthew Haynes, Mike Furlan, Heather Maughan, Robert Edwards, Forest Rohwer, Douglas Conrad. Clinical Insights from Metagenomic Analysis of Sputum Samples from Patients with Cystic Fibrosis J Clin Microbiol. 2014 Feb;52(2):425-37. doi: 10.1128/JCM.02204-13. Epub 2013 Nov 20.
  3. Genivaldo Gueiros Z. Silva, Daniel Cuevas, Bas E. Dutilh, Robert Edwards. FOCUS: an Alignment-free Model to Identify Organisms in Metagenomes Using Non-negative Least Squares.PeerJ 2014 Jun 5;2:e425. [Funding: NSF DEB-1046413 and CNS-1305112 ]
  4. Kelly LW, Williams GJ, Barott KL, Carlson CA, Dinsdale EA, Edwards RA, Haas AF, Haynes M, Lim YW, McDole T, Nelson CE, Sala E, Sandin SA, Smith JE, Vermeij MJA, Youle M, Rohwer F. 2014. Local genomic adaptation of coral reef-associated microbiomes to gradients of natural variability and anthropogenic stressors. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 111:10227–10232. [Funding: NSF DEB-1046413]
  5. Lim YW, Cuevas DA, Silva GGZ, Aguinaldo K, Dinsdale EA, Haas AF, Hatay M, Sanchez SE, Wegley-Kelly L, Dutilh BE, Harkins TT, Lee CC, Tom W, Sandin SA, Smith JE, Zgliczynski B, Vermeij MJA, Rohwer F, Edwards RA. 2014. Sequencing at sea: challenges and experiences in Ion Torrent PGM sequencing during the 2013 Southern Line Islands Research Expedition. PeerJ 2:e520. [Funding: NSF DEB-1046413, CNS-1305112, and MCB-1330800]
  6. Bas E. Dutilh, Noriko Cassman, Katelyn McNair, Savannah Sanchez, Genivaldo G.Z. Silva, Lance Boling, Jeremy J. Barr, Daan R. Speth, Victor Seguritan, Ramy K. Aziz, Ben Felts, Elizabeth A. Dinsdale, John L. Mokili & Robert A. Edwards. Unknown sequences in faecal metagenomes reveal a widely distributed and highly abundant bacteriophage. Nature communications. [Funding: NSF DEB-1046413]
  7. Bas E Dutilh, Cristiane C Thompson, Ana CP Vicente, Michel A Marin, Clarence Lee, Genivaldo GZ Silva, Robert Schmieder, Bruno GN Andrade, Luciane Chimetto, Daniel Cuevas, Daniel Garza, Iruka N Okeke, A. Oladipo Aboderin, Jessica Spangler, Tristen Ross, Elizabeth A Dinsdale, Fabiano L Thompson, Timothy T Harkins and Robert A Edwards
    Comparative genomics of 274 Vibrio cholerae genomes reveals mobile functions structuring three niche dimensions [BMC Genomics] [Funding: DBI: 0850356 and DEB:1046413]
  8. Nelson Alves Junior, Pedro Milet Meirelles, Eidy de Oliveira Santos, Bas Dutilh, Genivaldo G. Z. Silva, Rodolfo Paranhos, Anderson S. Cabral, Carlos Rezende,Tetsuya Iida, Rodrigo L. de Moura, Ricardo Henrique Kruger, Renato C. Pereira, Rogério Valle, Tomoo Sawabe, Cristiane Thompson,Fabiano Thompson. Microbial community diversity and physical–chemical features of the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean. [Archives of Microbiology]
  9.  Silva GGZ, Dutilh BE, Edwards RA: FORMAL: A model to identify organisms present in metagenomes using Monte Carlo Simulation. bioRxiv 2014:010801.
  10. Cristiane C. Thompson, Gilda R. Amaral, Mariana Campeão, Robert A. Edwards, Martin F. Polz, Bas E. Dutilh, David W. Ussery, Tomoo Sawabe, Jean Swings, Fabiano L. Thompson. Microbial taxonomy in the post-genomic era: Rebuilding from scratch? Archives of Microbiology, 2014
  11. Daniel A Cuevas, Daniel Garza, Savannah E Sanchez, Jason Rostron, Chris S Henry, Veronika Vonstein, Ross A Overbeek, Anca Segall, Forest Rohwer, Elizabeth A Dinsdale, Robert A Edwards. Elucidating genomic gaps using phenotypic profiles. F1000Research 2014, 3:210 (doi: 10.12688/f1000research.5140.1) [Funding: NSF funding from CNS-1305112, MCB-1330800, DUE-132809, DEB-1046413, DUE-1259951]

2013

  1. Akhter S,Bailey BA,Salamon P, Aziz RK and Edwards RA. Applying Shannon’s information theory to bacterial and phage genomes and metagenomes.Nature Sci. Rep. 3, Article number:1033. 2013 [Link] [Funding: PhAnToME]
  2. Gizele D. Garcia, Gustavo B. Gregoracci, Eidy de O. Santos, Pedro M. Meirelles, Genivaldo GZ Silva, Rob Edwards,, Tomoo Sawabe, Kazuyoshi Gotoh, Shota Nakamura, Tetsuya Iida, Rodrigo L. de Moura, and Fabiano L. Thompson. Metagenomic analysis of healthy and White-plague affected Mussismilia braziliensis corals. Microb Ecol. 2013 May;65(4):1076-86 [PMID: 23314124] [Funding FIPSE-CAPES]
  3. Dwivedi B, Xue B, Lundin D, Edwards RA, Breitbart M. A bioinformatic analysis of ribonucleotide reductase genes in phage genomes and metagenomes. BMC Evol Biol. 2013 Feb 7;13(1):33. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-13-33 [PMID: 23391036] [Funding: PhAnToME]
  4. Frank JA, Lorimer D, Youle M, Witte P, Craig T, Abendroth J, Rohwer F, Edwards RA, Segall AM, Burgin AB Jr. Structure and function of a cyanophage-encoded peptide deformylase. ISME J. 2013 Jun;7(6):1150-60 [PMID: 23407310] [Funding: Viral Dark Matter]
  5. Dutilh, B.E., Backus, L., Edwards, R.A., Wels, M., Bayjanov, J.R., and S.A.F.T. van Hijum. Explaining microbial phenotypes on a genomic scale: GWAS for microbes. Briefings in Functional Genomics. Brief Funct Genomics. 2013 Jul;12(4):366-80. [PMID 23625995] [Funding: PhAnToME and Viral Dark Matter]
  6. Peter M. Letcher mail, Salvador Lopez, Robert Schmieder, Philip A. Lee, Craig Behnke, Martha J. Powell, Robert C. McBride. Characterization of Amoeboaphelidium protococcarum, an Algal Parasite New to the Cryptomycota Isolated from an Outdoor Algal Pond Used for the Production of Biofuel. PLoS One. 2013;8(2):e56232. [PMID: 23437098]
  7. Dinsdale EA, Edwards RA, Bailey B, Tuba I, Akhter S, McNair K, Schmieder R, Apkarian N, Creek M, Guan E, Hernandez M, Isaacs K, Peterson C, Regh T and Ponomarenko V (2013). Multivariate analysis of functional metagenomes. Front. Genet. 4:41. doi:10.3389/fgene.2013.00041[Link] [Funding: Microbes, Metagenomes and Marine Mammals; and PhAnToME]
  8. Ward R.M, Schmieder R, Highnam G, Mittelman D. Big data challenges and opportunities in high-throughput sequencing. Systems Biomedicine Review Volume 1 Issue 1 2013 [Link]
  9. Cristiane C Thompson, Genivaldo GZ Silva, Nayra M Vieira, Robert Edwards, Ana Carolina P Vicente, Fabiano L Thompson. Genomic Taxonomy of the Genus Prochlorococcus. Microbial ecology 2013, 66:752-762 [Link] [PMID: 23963220] [Funding: CAPES, FAPERJ, and CNPq]
  10. R. A. Edwards, John Matthew Haggerty, Noriko Cassman, Julia Christine Busch, Kristen Aguinaldo, Sowmya Chinta, Meredith Houle Vaughn, Robert Morey, Timothy T Harkins, Clotilde Teiling, Karin Fredrikson, Elizabeth Ann Dinsdale. Microbes, metagenomes and marine mammals: enabling the next generation of scientist to enter the genomic era. BMC Genomics. 2013 Sep 4;14:600 [Link] [PMID 24007365]
  11. Bhakti Dwivedi, Bingjie Xue, Daniel Lundin, Robert A Edwards, Mya Breitbart. A bioinformatic analysis of ribonucleotide reductase genes in phage genomes and metagenomesBMC Evol Biol. 2013 Feb 7;13:33 [Link] [PMID 23391036] [funding DBI-0850356]
  12. Genivaldo G. Z. Silva, Bas E. Dutilh,T. David Matthews, Keri Elkins, Robert Schmieder, Elizabeth A. Dinsdale and Robert A. Edwards. Combining de novo and reference-guided assembly with Scaffold_builderSource Code Biol Med. 2013 Nov 22;8(1):23 [ PMID:24267787] [Funding FIPSE-CAPES and NSF DBI 0850356 and TUES:1044453]
  13. Mark Eppinger, Katelyn McNair, Xhavit Zogaj, Elizabeth A. Dinsdale, Robert A.Edwards, and Karl E. Klose. Draft Genome Sequence of the Fish Pathogen Piscirickettsia salmonis. Genome Announc. 2013 Nov 7;1(6). pii: e00926-13 [PMID 24201203]

2012

  1. RA Edwards, R Olson, T Disz, GD Pusch, V Vonstein, R Stevens, R Overbeek. Real Time Metagenomics: Using k-mers to annotate metagenomes. Bioinformatics 28 (24), 3316-3317. 2012. [PMID: 23047562] [Funding: PhAnToME and Viral Dark Matter]
  2. Dutilh BE, Schmieder R, Nulton J, Felts B, Salamon P, Edwards RA, Mokili JL. Reference-independent comparative metagenomics using cross-assembly: crAss. Bioinformatics. 2012 Dec 15;28(24):3225-31. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts613. [PMID: 23074261] [Funding: PhAnToME and Viral Dark Matter]
  3. Hanna LF, Matthews TD, Dinsdale EA, Hasty D, Edwards RA. Characterization of the ELPhiS Prophage from Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis strain LK5. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2012 Mar;78(6):1785-93. [PMID: 22247173] [Funding: Microbes, Metagenomes and Marine Mammals; and PhAnToME]
  4. McNair K, Bailey BA, Edwards RA. PHACTS, a computational approach to classifying the lifestyle of phages.Bioinformatics. 2012 Mar 1;28(5):614-8. [PMID: 22238260] [Funding: PhAnToME]
  5. Schmieder R and Edwards R. Insights into antibiotic resistance through metagenomic approaches. Future Microbiol. 2012 Jan;7(1):73-89. [PMID: 22191448] [Funding: PhAnToME and Viral Dark Matter]
  6. Schmieder R, Lim YW, Edwards R. Identification and removal of ribosomal RNA sequences from metatranscriptomes. Bioinformatics. 2012 Feb 1;28(3):433-5. [PMID: 22155869] [Funding: PhAnToME]
  7. Berg Miller ME, Yeoman CJ, Chia N, Tringe SG, Angly FE, Edwards RA, Flint HJ, Lamed R, Bayer EA, White BA. Phage-bacteria relationships and CRISPR elements revealed by a metagenomic survey of the rumen microbiome.Environ Microbiol. 2012 Jan;14(1):207-27 [PMID: 22004549]
  8. Espinoza-Valles I, Soto-Rodríguez S, Edwards RA, Wang Z, Vora GJ, Gómez-Gil B. Draft Genome Sequence of the Shrimp Pathogen Vibrio harveyi CAIM 1792.J Bacteriol. 2012 Apr;194(8):2104 [PMID: 22461546][Funding: PhAnToME]
  9. Dwivedi B, Schmieder R, Goldsmith DB, Edwards RA, Breitbart M. PhiSiGns: an online tool to identify signature genes in phages and design PCR primers for examining phage diversity.BMC Bioinformatics. 2012 Mar 4;13:37 [PMID: 22385976][Funding: PhAnToME]
  10. Li JW, Schmieder R, Ward RM, Delenick J, Olivares EC, Mittelman D. SEQanswers: An open access community for collaboratively decoding genomes.Bioinformatics. 2012 May 1;28(9):1272-3 [PMID: 22419780]
  11. Luckwu de Lucena BT, Silva GG, Manoel Dos Santos B, Dias GM, Amaral GR, Moreira AP, de Morais Júnior MA, Dutilh BE, Edwards RA, Balbino V, Thompson CC, Thompson FL. Genome sequence of the ethanol tolerant Lactobacillus vini strains LMG23202T and JP7.8.9.J Bacteriol. 2012 Jun;194(11):3018 [PMID: 22582376] [Funding: PhAnToME and FIPSE-CAPES]
  12. Akhter S, Aziz RK, Edwards RA. PhiSpy: a novel algorithm for finding prophages in bacterial genomes that combines similarity- and composition-based strategies.Nucleic Acids Research 2012 40: e126 [PMID: 22584627] [Funding: PhAnToME]
  13. Garza DR, Thompson CC, Loureiro EC B, Dutilh BE, Inada DT, Junior ECS, Cardoso JF, Nunes MRT, de Lima CPS, Vellasco RS, Nunes KNB, Santos ECO, Edwards RA, Vicente ACP, Morais LLCS. Genome-Wide Study of the Defective Sucrose Fermenter Strain of Vibrio cholerae from the Latin American Cholera Epidemic.PLoS One. 2012;7(5):e37283 [PMID: 22662140]
  14. Amaral GRS, Silva BSO, Santos EO, Dias GM, Lopes RM, Edwards RA, Thompson CC, Thompson FL. Genome Sequence of the Bacterioplanktonic, Mixotrophic Vibrio campbellii Strain PEL22A, Isolated in the Abrolhos Bank. J Bacteriol. 2012 May;194(10):2759-60. [PMID: 22535939][Funding: PhAnToME and FIPSE-CAPES]
  15. Trindade-Silva AE, Rua C, Silva GG, Dutilh BE, Moreira AP, Edwards RA, Hajdu E, Lobo-Hajdu G, Vasconcelos AT, Berlinck RG, Thompson FL. Taxonomic and Functional Microbial Signatures of the Endemic Marine Sponge Arenosclera brasiliensis.PLoS One. 2012;7(7):e39905. [PMID: 22768320]
  16. Hedin M, Starrett J, Akhter S, Schönhofer AL, Shultz JW. Phylogenomic Resolution of Paleozoic Divergences in Harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones) via Analysis of Next-Generation Transcriptome Data.PLoS One. 2012;7(8):e42888. [PMID: 22936998]
  17. YW Lim, R Schmieder, M Haynes, D Willner, M Furlan, M Youle, K Abbott, R Edwards, J. Evangelista, D. Conrad, F. Rohwer. Metagenomics and metatranscriptomics: Windows on CF-associated viral and microbial communities. J Cyst Fibros. 2012 Aug 28 [Link]
  18. M Yue, R Schmieder, RA Edwards, SC Rankin, DM Schifferli. Microfluidic PCR combined with pyrosequencing identify allelic variants with phenotypic associations in targeted Salmonella genes. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2012 Oct;78(20):7480-2 [PMID: 22885744]
  19. Lynch EA, Langille MG, Darling A, Wilbanks EG, Haltiner C, Shao KS, Starr MO, Teiling C, Harkins TT, Edwards RA, Eisen JA, Facciotti MT. Sequencing of Seven Haloarchaeal Genomes Reveals Patterns of Genomic Flux. PLoS One. 2012;7(7):e41389. [PMID: 22848480]
  20. M Yue, SC Rankin, RT Blanchet, JD Nulton, RA Edwards, DM Schifferli. Diversification of the Salmonella Fimbriae: A Model of Macro-and Microevolution. PLoS One. 2012;7(6):e38596. [PMID: 22701679] [Funding: PhAnToME]
  21. Bruce T, Meirelles PM, Garcia G, Paranhos R, Rezende CE, de Moura RL, Filho RF, Coni EO, Vasconcelos AT, Amado Filho G, Hatay M, Schmieder R, Edwards R, Dinsdale E, Thompson FL. Abrolhos Bank Reef Health Evaluated by Means of Water Quality, Microbial Diversity, Benthic Cover, and Fish Biomass Data. PLoS One. 2012;7(6):e36687. [PMID: 22679480]
  22. N. Cassman, A. Prieto-Davó, K. Walsh, G. G. Z. Silva, F. Angly, S. Akhter, K. Barott, J. Busch, T. McDole, J. M. Haggerty, D. Willner, G. Alarcón, O. Ulloa, E F. DeLong, B. Dulith, F. Rohwer, E A. Dinsdale. Oxygen minimum zones harbor novel viral communities with low diversity. Environ Microbiol. 2012 Nov;14(11):3043-65.[PMID: 23039259]
  23. A. E Trindade-Silva, C. PJ Rua, B. GN Andrade, A.C. Paulo Vicente, G. G. Z Silva, RGS Berlinck, FL Thompson. Polyketide synthase gene diversity within the endemic sponge Arenosclera brasiliensis microbiome. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2013 Mar;79(5):1598-605 [PMID:23275501].
  24. R. K. Aziz, S. Devoid, T. Disz, R. A. Edwards, C. S. Henry, G. J. Olsen, R. Olson, R. Overbeek,B. Parrello, G. D. Pusch, R. L. Stevens, V. Vonstein, F. Xia. SEED Servers: High-Performance Access to the SEED Genomes, Annotations, and Metabolic Models PLoS One. 2012;7(10):e48053 [PMID: 23110173] [Funding: PhAnToME and Viral Dark Matter]

2011

  1. C. C. Thompson, M. Abanto Marin, G. Maria Dias, B. E. Dutilh, R. Edwards, T. Iida, F. L. Thompson. Genome sequence of the human pathogen Vibrio cholerae Amazonia. J Bacteriol. 2011 Oct;193(20):5877-8. [PMID: 21952545] [Funding: PhAnToME andFIPSE-CAPES]
  2. Schmieder, R and Edwards, R. Quality control and preprocessing of metagenomic datasets. Bioinformatics. 2011 Mar 15;27(6):863-4. [PMID: 21278185] [Funding: PhAnToME]
  3. Julian R. Marchesi, Bas E. Dutilh, Neil Hall, Wilbert H. M. Peters, Rian Roelofs, Annemarie Boleij, Harold Tjalsma. Towards the Human Colorectal Cancer Microbiome. PLoS ONE 2011. [PMID: 21647227]
  4. Schmieder R, Edwards R. Fast identification and removal of sequence contamination from genomic and metagenomic datasets. PLoS One. 2011 Mar 9;6(3):e17288. [PMID: 21408061] [Funding: PhAnToME]
  5. Matthews TD, Rabsch W, Maloy S. Chromosomal rearrangements in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi strains isolated from asymptomatic human carriers. MBio. 2011 Jun 7;2(3):e00060-11. [PMID: 21652779]
  6. Berg Miller ME, Yeoman CJ, Chia N, Tringe SG, Angly FE, Edwards RA, Flint HJ, Lamed R, Bayer EA, White BA. Phage-bacteria relationships and CRISPR elements revealed by a metagenomic survey of the rumen microbiome. Environ Microbiol. 2012 Jan;14(1):207-27 [PMID: 22004549]
  7. Willner D, Haynes MR, Furlan M, Hanson N, Kirby B, Lim YW, Rainey PB, Schmieder R, Youle M, Conrad D, Rohwer F. Case studies of the spatial heterogeneity of DNA viruses in the cystic fibrosis lung. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2012 Feb;46(2):127-31. [PMID: 21980056]
  8. Willner D, Haynes MR, Furlan M, Schmieder R, Lim YW, Rainey PB, Rohwer F, Conrad D. Spatial distribution of microbial communities in the cystic fibrosis lung. ISME J. 2012 Feb;6(2):471-4. [PMID: 21796216]
  9. Ng TF, Willner DL, Lim YW, Schmieder R, Chau B, Nilsson C, Anthony S, Ruan Y, Rohwer F, Breitbart M. Broad surveys of DNA viral diversity obtained through viral metagenomics of mosquitoes.PLoS One. 2011;6(6):e20579. [PMID: 21674005]
  10. Maartje A.H.J. van Kessel, Bas E. Dutilh, Kornelia Neveling, Michael P. Kwint, Joris A. Veltman, Gert Flik, Mike S.M. Jetten, Peter H.M. Klaren and Huub J.M. Op den Camp Pyrosequencing of 16S rRNA gene amplicons to study the microbiota in the gastrointestinal tract of carp (Cyprinus carpio L.). AMB Express. 2011 Nov 18;1:41. [PMID 22093413]
  11. R. K Aziz , B. Dwivedi, M. Breitbart, R. A Edwards Phage Eco-Locator: a web tool for visualization and analysis of phage genomes in metagenomic data sets.BMC Bioinformatics 12(Suppl 7):A9 2011. [Link] [Funding: PhAnToME]

2010

  1. Mobberley J, Authement RN, Segall AM, Edwards RA, Slepecky RA, Paul JH: Lysogeny and sporulation in Bacillus isolates from the Gulf of Mexico. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2010 Feb;76(3):829-42. [PMID: 20008174]
  2. Aziz RK, Breitbart M, Edwards RA: Transposases are the most abundant, most ubiquitous genes in nature. Nucleic Acids Res. 2010 Jul;38(13):4207-17. [PMID: 20215432] [Funding: PhAnToME]
  3. Rodriguez-Brito B, Li L, Wegley L, Furlan M, Angly F, Breitbart M, Buchanan J, Desnues C, Dinsdale E, Edwards R, Felts B, Haynes M, Liu H, Lipson D, Mahaffy J, Martin-Cuadrado AB, Mira A, Nulton J, Pašic L, Rayhawk S, Rodriguez-Mueller J, Rodriguez-Valera F, Salamon P, Srinagesh S, Thingstad TF, Tran T, Thurber RV, Willner D, Youle M, Rohwer F: Viral and microbial community dynamics in four aquatic environments. ISME J. 2010 Jun;4(6):739-51. [PMID: 20147985]
  4. Willner D, Furlan M, Schmieder R, Grasis JA, Pride DT, Relman DA, Angly FE, McDole T, Mariella RP, Rohwer F, Haynes M: Metagenomic detection of phage-encoded platelet-binding factors in the human oral cavity.Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Mar 15;108 Suppl 1:4547-53. [PMID: 20547834]
  5. Disz T, Akhter S, Cuevas D, Olson R, Overbeek R, Vonstein V, Stevens R, Edwards RA: Accessing the SEED genome databases via Web services API: tools for programmers. BMC Bioinformatics. 2010 Jun 14;11:319.[PMID: 20546611]
  6. Schmieder R, Lim YW, Rohwer F, Edwards R: TagCleaner: Identification and removal of tag sequences from genomic and metagenomic datasets. BMC Bioinformatics. 2010 Jun 23;11:341. [PMID: 20573248] [Funding: PhAnToME]
  7. F.L. Thompson, Rodrigues, T.B., Gonzalez, A., Cardoso, A. Clementino, M., Costagliola, M., Hozbor, C., Otero, E., Paranhos, R., Piccini, C., Peressutti, S., Schmieder, R., Edwards, R., Smith, M., Takiyama, L.R., Vieira, R., Artigas, L.F. 2010. Coastal bacterioplankton community diversity along a latitudinal gradient in Latin America by means of V6-tag pyrosequencing. Arch Microbiol. 2011 Feb;193(2):105-14. [PMID: 21076816]
  8. Matthews TD, Edwards R, Maloy S. Chromosomal rearrangements formed by rrn recombination do not improve rep