Emiliano Pereira-Flores

SeCAT is a Nextflow pipeline that harmonizes 16S rRNA metabarcoding datasets by identifying a consensus sequence window and testing its impact on community structure before merging datasets.

This study examines seasonal changes and thermal vulnerability in marine microbial communities in Uruguayan coastal waters using long-term data from a Marine Protected Area.

The paper introduces BiG-MEx, an ultrafast tool for mining metagenomic data to identify and analyze biosynthetic gene clusters, demonstrating its effectiveness on TARA Oceans and Human Microbiome Project datasets.