This study analyzes microbial community changes in traditional Swiss cheese over 142 years, showing shifts linked to production practices and antibiotic use.

Current Biology · Sep 24, 2026Peer-reviewedMicrobiology

Genomic and phenotypic imprints of microbial domestication on cheese starter cultures

Vincent Somerville, Nadine Thierer, Remo S. Schmidt, Alexandra Roetschi, Lauriane Braillard, Monika Haueter, Hélène Berthoud, Noam Shani, Ueli von Ah, Florent Mazel, Philipp Engel

This study examines cheese starter cultures to determine if they show signs of microbial domestication, finding low genetic diversity, taxonomic stability, and evidence of genome decay.

Nature Communications · Oct 4, 2024Peer-reviewedMicrobiology

OpenGenomeBrowser: A versatile, dataset-independent and scalable web platform for genome data management and comparative genomics

Thomas Röder, Simone Oberhänsli, Noam Shani, Rémy Bruggmann

OpenGenomeBrowser provides a scalable, open-source platform for managing genomic data and performing comparative genomics analyses.

BMC Genomics · Dec 27, 2022Peer-reviewedBioinformatics

DAIRYdb: A manually curated gold standard reference database for improved taxonomy annotation of 16S rRNA gene sequences from dairy products

Marco Meola, Étienne Rifa, Noam Shani, Céline Delbès, Hélène Berthoud, Christophe Chassard

DAIRYdb improves taxonomy annotation accuracy for dairy product microbiomes by providing a manually curated database of 16S rRNA gene sequences.

BMC Genomics · Jul 8, 2019Peer-reviewedGenomics