Tom Lennard Stach

itBins refines metagenomic bins and estimates binning success using %GC content, coverage, and taxonomy, outperforming existing tools in speed and accuracy.

This study shows river sediment microbiomes are highly sensitive to reduced flow velocity, leading to altered community compositions and stress responses that recover after two weeks.

The paper analyzes hyporheic zone microbiomes across North America to show conserved stress responses and distinct metabolic activity in sediments versus surface water.

uBin is a manual bin refinement tool for metagenomics designed for education, improving bin quality by reducing contamination in public datasets.