Teng Wang

The paper compares microbial community structure and soil nutrients in healthy and diseased ginger soils, finding significant differences in pH, nutrient content, and microbial diversity.

The paper introduces Meta-Sorter, an AI method using neural networks and transfer learning to improve biome labeling for thousands of inaccurately annotated microbial samples, achieving high accuracy in classification.

This study shows that phages and plasmids increase prokaryotic genome size, while CRISPR reduces it, with CRISPR targeting phages more than plasmids.