Roth E. Conrad

This study analyzes metagenomic data from the Gulf of Mexico to show unique microbial diversity and the long-range effects of freshwater input.

The paper introduces ROCker models for detecting and typing specific antibiotic resistance genes in short-read sequences, showing improved accuracy over existing methods.

The paper shows SAR11 bacteria use promiscuous recombination to form sequence-discrete species with lower ANI thresholds than other microbes.

The paper identifies ecological cohesiveness and homologous recombination as mechanisms maintaining microbial species and genomovars in two bacterial species.

The paper identifies a 99.5% ANI gap in bacteriophage genomes that can define intra-species units, proposing 'genomovars' as a standardized classification.

MicrobeAnnotator provides a comprehensive, automated microbial genome annotation pipeline that integrates results from multiple databases to summarize metabolic potential using KEGG modules.