K. Eric Wommack

This study shows that a single amino acid substitution in phage T7's DNA polymerase I significantly affects infection dynamics in the T7-E. coli system.

The paper examines the distribution of ribonucleotide reductase (RNR) genes in marine viruses and links their patterns to ocean biogeochemistry.

This paper extends protein language models to a viral genomic scale using sparse attention, improving embeddings for long-range interprotein interactions.

The paper isolates and compares 16 bacteriophages targeting Bradyrhizobium spp., revealing host species-dependent diversity and identifying three new phage species.

This study fine-tunes pre-trained protein language models on viral protein sequences to improve their performance on downstream tasks and representation quality.

PASV automates validation and partitioning of protein-coding sequences using conserved residues, achieving high accuracy in classifying RNR, AOX, and PTOX sequences.

Iroki automates the customization and visualization of phylogenetic trees using metadata, enabling easier exploration of microbial ecology data.

The paper reannotates an RNR gene in a cyanophage, revealing it belongs to Class I rather than Class II, and suggests this reannotation impacts understanding of viral life strategies.

The paper introduces a method to speed up protein sequence homology searches with minimal loss of sensitivity and specificity by using hierarchical clustering of reference databases.