IDBac provides a centralized database and platform for bacterial identification via MALDI-TOF MS, enabling spectral comparison and analysis of bacterial isolates.

Nature Communications · Jul 22, 2026Peer-reviewedMicrobiology

Expanding the cultivable human archaeome: Methanobrevibacter intestini sp. nov. and strain Methanobrevibacter smithii GRAZ-2 from human feces

Viktoria Weinberger, Rokhsareh Mohammadzadeh, Marcus Blohs, Kerstin Kalt, Alexander Mahnert, Sarah Moser, Marina Cecovini, Polona Mertelj, Tamara Zurabishvili, Bhawna Arora, Jacqueline Wolf, Tejus Shinde, Tobias Madl, Hansjörg Habisch, Dagmar Kolb, , Christine Moissl‐Eichinger

The paper isolates and characterizes two new Methanobrevibacter species from human feces, highlighting genomic and phenotypic differences.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY · Apr 16, 2025Peer-reviewedMicrobiology

A computational framework for systematic exploration of biosynthetic diversity from large-scale genomic data

Jorge Carlos Navarro-Muñoz, Nelly Selem Mojica, Michael W. Mullowney, Satria Ardhe Kautsar, James H. Tryon, Elizabeth I. Parkinson, Emmanuel L. C. de los Santos, Marley Yeong, Pablo Cruz‐Morales, Sahar Abubucker, Arne Roeters, Wouter Lokhorst, Antonio Fernàndez-Guerra, Luciana Teresa Dias Cappelini, Anthony W. Goering, , Marnix H. Medema

The paper introduces two tools, BiG-SCAPE and CORASON, for analyzing biosynthetic gene clusters in large genomic datasets, demonstrating their utility through validation and discovery of new gene cluster families.

Nature Chemical Biology · Nov 25, 2019Peer-reviewedBioinformatics