Rauf Salamzade

The paper investigates antimicrobial activity in the skin microbiome, identifies novel defensive species, and highlights dry skin sites as rich sources of bioactive metabolites.

The paper isolates Streptomyces from cadaveric fly larvae, identifies bioactive compounds, and demonstrates their anthelmintic activity against Brugia malayi.

The paper links multicellularity with expanded chemical arsenals in microbes by showing that multicellular lineages have greater biosynthetic potential for specialized metabolites.

The paper introduces two tools, skDER and CiDDER, for microbial genome dereplication to select representative genomes for comparative genomic studies.

The paper introduces fai and zol for large-scale comparative analysis of gene clusters and MGEs, enabling comprehensive orthology inference and evolutionary studies across thousands of genomes.

The paper introduces lsaBGC, a bioinformatics tool for analyzing BGCs in skin microbiomes, revealing evolutionary patterns and novel SNVs in key species.

MAK improves biclustering by correcting size bias and enhancing biological enrichment, finding novel biclusters in yeast data.

vRhyme is a software tool that bins viral genomes from metagenomes, producing more complete and uncontaminated viral metagenome-assembled genomes (vMAGs) than existing methods.

The paper develops a method to trace horizontal gene transfer and persistence of carbapenem resistance genes across bacterial species using genomic data from clinical isolates.