Author

S. A. Shmakov

Listed by name: these papers carry no ORCID for this author, so different people with the same name may be mixed together.

Biology Disciplines

Click to filter author papers

Microbiology· 4

Signature Assays, Organisms & Methods

Click to filter · or open tag

Research Focus:clustering· 2 Organism:human· 2 Assay:metagenomics· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Organism:bacteria (other)· 1 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Research Focus:chromatin & epigenetic regulation· 1 Approach:deep learning· 1

Frequent Co-Authors

E. V. Koonin· 3 shared Y. I. Wolf· 3 shared D. Antipov· 2 shared K. S. Makarova· 2 shared N. Yutin· 2 shared P. A. Pevzner· 2 shared S. Benler· 2 shared A. B. Gussow· 1 shared

Activity by Year

2017-2020 · peak 3/yr

Co-Author Collaboration Network

10 top collaborators · 27 mutual co-author links

Click any collaborator node to inspect or filter shared papers

Focal author (center)Selected co-authorORCID co-authorUnlinked name

Curved chords = mutual co-authorship

3 shared papersMicrobiology

E. V. Koonin

Mutual co-authors in cluster

Author profile →

4 papers

Recent·Most cited

Thousands of previously unknown phages discovered in whole-community human gut metagenomes

S. Benler, N. Yutin, D. Antipov, M. Raykov, S. A. Shmakov, A. B. Gussow, P. A. Pevzner, E. V. Koonin

The paper identifies 3,738 new phage genomes from human gut metagenomes, classifying them into three new candidate families and revealing novel phage-host interaction mechanisms.

bioRxiv · Oct 7, 2020Microbiology

Unique genomic features of crAss-like phages, the dominant component of the human gut virome

N. Yutin, S. Benler, S. A. Shmakov, Y. I. Wolf, I. Tolstoy, M. Rayko, D. Antipov, P. A. Pevzner, E. V. Koonin

The paper identifies nearly 600 crAss-like phage genomes from human gut microbiomes, revealing unique genomic features and anti-defense mechanisms.

bioRxiv · Jul 20, 2020 · PreprintMicrobiology

Vast diversity of anti-CRISPR proteins predicted with a machine-learning approach

A. Gussow, S. A. Shmakov, K. S. Makarova, Y. I. Wolf, J. Bondy-Denomy, E. V. Koonin

The paper predicts 2,500 novel anti-CRISPR protein families using a machine learning approach and validates one candidate's anti-CRISPR activity.

bioRxiv · Jan 23, 2020 · PreprintMicrobiology

The CRISPR Spacer Space Is Dominated By Sequences From The Species-Specific Mobilome

S. A. Shmakov, V. Sitnik, K. S. Makarova, Y. I. Wolf, K. V. Severinov, E. Koonin

The study analyzes CRISPR spacers across bacterial and archaeal genomes, finding most target mobile genetic elements and showing strong compositional correlations with microbial and viral genomes.

bioRxiv · May 12, 2017Microbiology