The paper identifies quality biases in ITS2 metabarcoding that reduce specific fungal taxa abundances and recommends sliding window trimming to mitigate these biases.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology · Dec 26, 2024Peer-reviewedMicrobiology

The ant fungus garden acts as an external digestive system

Andrés Mauricio Caraballo‐Rodríguez, Sara P. Puckett, Kathleen E. Kyle, Daniel Petras, Ricardo Silva, Louis-Félix Nothias-Scaglia, Madeleine Ernst, Justin J. J. van der Hooft, Anupriya Tripathi, Mingxun Wang, Marcy J. Balunas, Jonathan L. Klassen, Pieter C. Dorrestein

The paper maps chemical modifications in an ant fungus garden as plant material passes through, revealing its role in nutrient uptake.

bioRxiv · Nov 18, 2020 · PreprintSystems Biology

MASST: A Web-based Basic Mass Spectrometry Search Tool for Molecules to Search Public Data.

Mingxun Wang, Alan K. Jarmusch, Fernando Vargas, Alexander A. Aksenov, Julia M. Gauglitz, Kelly C. Weldon, Daniel Petras, Ricardo Silva, Robby Quinn, Alexey V. Melnik, Justin J. J. van der Hooft, Andrés Mauricio Caraballo‐Rodríguez, Louis-Félix Nothias-Scaglia, Christine M. Aceves, Morgan W. Panitchpakdi, , Pieter C. Dorrestein

MASST enables querying of public small-molecule tandem MS data to discover molecular relationships in metabolomics and natural product datasets.

bioRxiv · Mar 28, 2019 · PreprintBioinformatics