Dann Turner

Development of low cost, robust and reproducible biofilm static and pharmacodynamic assays

The paper develops a low-cost, robust, and reproducible method for static and pharmacodynamic biofilm assays using glass beads and standard lab equipment, showing comparable results to traditional methods.

First community challenge for automated virus taxonomy

This paper organizes a community challenge to develop automated virus taxonomy classification tools and evaluates their performance on a combined dataset of expert-curated and metagenomic sequences.

Four Decades of Genomic Stability and Adaptive Divergence in Xanthomonas arboricola pv. pruni-Infecting Phages: Defining Duraznoxanthovirus arenicola and Its Evolutionary Framework

The paper characterizes 15 phages infecting Xanthomonas arboricola pv. pruni, identifying a new genus and species and proposing taxonomic changes within the Anamaviridae family.

Scalable and systematic hierarchical virus taxonomy with vConTACT3

The paper introduces vConTACT3, a machine learning tool that improves virus taxonomy classification, scalability, and accuracy, and identifies taxonomic issues across the virosphere.

taxmyPHAGE: Automated taxonomy of dsDNA phage genomes at the genus and species

TaxmyPHAGE automates the classification of dsDNA phage genomes into genera and species using MASH and BLASTn, enabling rapid and accurate taxonomic assignment at scale.

GRAViTy-V2: a grounded viral taxonomy application

GRAViTy-V2 classifies viruses using whole-genome analysis, achieving taxonomic accuracy comparable to expert-curated classifications down to the family level.

Gene sharing networks to automate genome-based prokaryotic viral taxonomy

This paper introduces vConTACT 2.0, a network-based tool for prokaryotic virus taxonomy that scales to large datasets and achieves high accuracy in taxonomic assignments.