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Rob Knight

University of California San Diego

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Homology-aware average nucleotide identity estimation at scale with TurboANI

J. Zhao, D. McDonald, L. Patel, C. Wang, A. Gonzalez, Rob Knight

TurboANI is a fast, homology-aware ANI estimator with up to ~40,000x speedup over alignment-based methods and better accuracy than FastANI and skani.

bioRxiv · Nov 9, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics

Metagenomic covariation along densely sampled environmental gradients in the Red Sea

Luke R Thompson, Gareth J Williams, Mohamed F Haroon, Ahmed Shibl, Peter Larsen, Joshua Shorenstein, Rob Knight, Ulrich Stingl

The paper analyzes metagenomic data from the Red Sea to identify environmental factors driving microbial diversity and function along gradients of temperature, salinity, and nutrients.

bioRxiv · Jul 6, 2016Microbiology