Robert M. Bowers

This study uses a 20-year metagenomic time series to analyze the evolutionary dynamics of giant viruses in Lake Mendota, revealing gene duplication, horizontal transfer, and adaptive responses to environmental changes.

GradeBins provides a framework to assess metagenomic bin quality by evaluating complete bin sets with per-bin and bin-set summaries, supporting both inference and ground truth modes.

The paper analyzes time-series metagenomic data from Lake Mendota to study changes in protistan ecology, revealing shifts in community structure linked to invasive species and environmental factors.

This study introduces PTA, a single-cell amplification technique that produces nearly complete bacterial genomes and improves viral and gene cluster recovery compared to standard methods.