Hans‐Joachim Ruscheweyh

The paper identifies genomically discrete and ecologically cohesive subspecies in the global ocean microbiome, showing they are biologically meaningful units driven by environmental factors.

The paper introduces the Ocean Microbiomics Database (OMDB) to analyze microbial thermal niches and predict their response to ocean warming, showing richness declines faster than abundance.

The paper develops a mathematical framework to predict microbial community assembly using monoculture growth kinetics and inferred species interactions, revealing biphasic community development driven by competition and cross-feeding.

The paper examines latitudinal diversity gradients in the ocean microbiome, finding they are not universal but vary by taxa and environmental factors.

This study assesses the microbial biosynthetic potential of reef-building corals using genome-resolved metagenomics, revealing host-specific microbiomes with high biotechnological value.

The paper identifies a new deep-branching algal lineage, leptophytes, through metagenomic analysis of Tara Oceans data, revealing hidden plastid genome diversity and evolutionary insights.

The paper introduces a transcriptomic marker gene-based classifier to predict bacterial growth states across species in microbial communities.

The paper introduces the JEDI marker as a universal biodiversity measure, demonstrating its applicability across ecological scales and providing an automated bioinformatic workflow for standardized analysis.

The paper maps E. coli capsule serotypes using genomic data, identifies novel K-types, and develops an in silico serotyping tool applicable to diverse E. coli genomes.

The paper analyzes global ocean data to show that physical and biological patchiness are decoupled, using variance slope to quantify spatial patterns.

The paper examines environmental controls on dark CO2 fixation pathways in estuarine wetlands using multi-omics approaches, finding that different pathways are favored under varying environmental conditions.

The paper examines microbial lifestyles on suspended and sinking particles in the Elbe estuary, finding distinct gene expression patterns linked to carbon cycling and methane production.

The paper discovers a new group of DNA viruses, egoviruses, found in the digestive systems of humans and animals, closely related to poxviruses and suggesting an evolutionary link between gut-infecting viruses and animal pathogens.

mBARq simplifies the analysis of DNA barcode data from transposon libraries and isogenic strains through a user-friendly tool and web app integration.

The paper evaluates metagenomic software tools using realistic datasets, highlighting improvements in assembly and taxon profiling while identifying remaining challenges in virus/archaea detection and reproducibility.

The paper introduces mOTUs3, a tool for reference genome-independent taxonomic profiling of metagenomes, improving accuracy and coverage for underexplored microbiomes.