Krithika Arumugam

Exploring the genetic architecture of ecophysiological traits in microbial ecology using statistical analysis of the properties of protein sequences: application to the glycogen accumulating organism (GAO) phenotype

The paper analyzes protein sequence properties of the glgB gene to identify structural genetic variation associated with a glycogen accumulating phenotype in microbes.

A draft genome of the ascomycotal fungal species Pseudopithomyces maydicus (family Didymosphaeriaceae)

The paper presents a draft genome of Pseudopithomyces maydicus, identifying gene models and biosynthetic gene clusters.

Recovery of high quality metagenome-assembled genomes from full-scale activated sludge microbial communities in a tropical climate using longitudinal metagenome sampling

The paper evaluates MAG recovery strategies from activated sludge microbial communities, finding that co-assembly outperforms single-sample assembly and only 58 MAGs meet quality criteria.

Analysis procedures for assessing recovery of high quality, complete, closed genomes from Nanopore long read metagenome sequencing

The paper describes methods to validate long read assembled genomes using short read metagenome assembled genomes and assesses correction procedures' impact on genome quality, contributing new closed genomes from wastewater bioprocesses.

Annotated bacterial chromosomes from frame-shift-corrected long read metagenomic data

The paper demonstrates obtaining whole bacterial chromosomes from metagenomic samples using long-read sequencing and presents a pipeline with frame-shift correction.

Improving recovery of member genomes from enrichment reactor microbial communities using MinION--based long read metagenomics

The paper demonstrates that MinION long read sequencing can recover near-complete genomes from low-medium complexity microbial communities.