Luc Cornet

The paper reports the discovery of a novel Gloeobacter species in alpine dolomites and describes its unique genomic features related to cyanate metabolism.

The paper introduces an automated pipeline for whole-genome sequencing analysis of microbial pesticides to improve hazard characterization and risk assessment.

This study investigates the evolutionary origin of thylakoid membranes in cyanobacteria by analyzing phylogenomic data and structural models of membrane trafficking and Photosystem II assembly.

This study shows Gloeobacterales integrate horizontally transferred genes into their metabolism, enabling ribose uptake and central carbon metabolism remodeling, challenging their status as primitive relics.

The paper identifies an early-diverging sulfide quinone reductase in Antarctic Gloeobacterales, suggesting sulfide tolerance in thylakoid-lacking cyanobacteria and their adaptation to euxinic conditions.

The paper describes eight new cyanobacterial species and one new genus from Hawaiian steam vents using genome-based classification and phylogenomic analysis.

This study reconstructs high-quality genomes of Antarctic and Arctic cyanobacteria, revealing an Out-of-Antarctica dispersal scenario within subcluster 5.2.

The paper develops a FAIR amplicon sequencing workflow for long-term environmental monitoring of microbial communities in Antarctica.

The paper improves the resolution of the CMD2 locus in cassava by using BAC-guided haplotype assembly, revealing new stress resistance proteins.

The paper introduces the GEN-ERA toolbox, a unified bioinformatics workflow for microbial genomics that enables reproducible phylogenetic and metabolic analyses on bacteria and small eukaryotes.

CRACOT benchmarks six contamination detection tools across six taxonomic ranks, finding poor precision and recommending tool combination for better accuracy.

The paper uses whole genome sequences of 75 Snodgrassella strains to show the genus comprises at least seven species, with two formally named, and identifies 107 species-specific genes.

AMAW automates genome annotation for non-model eukaryotes by integrating MAKER2 and providing a Singularity container for easier deployment.

ORPER is a Nextflow workflow that determines the phylogenetic position of organisms by constraining SSU rRNA sequences in a reference tree, demonstrated on Cyanobacteria strains.

TQMD is a tool for dereplicating prokaryotic genomes using k-mer based methods, optimized for high taxonomic levels and complementary to existing tools.

The paper reports genome sequencing of 15 arctic/subarctic Cyanobacteria and their associated microbiome using a metagenomic pipeline, showing high-quality assemblies from non-axenic cultures.

The paper assesses contamination levels in 440 cyanobacterial genomes using a consensus of six methods, finding over 5% are highly contaminated.