Morgan N. Price

This paper identifies the WalRK two-component system's role in maintaining cell envelope integrity by compensating for reduced capsule and wall teichoic acid attachment in Streptococcus pneumoniae.

This study identifies hypophosphite as a natural inhibitor of syntrophic methanogenesis, offering a potential strategy for methane control in ecosystems.

The paper investigates how organic carbon oxidation state affects microbiome composition and greenhouse gas fluxes in anaerobic rice paddy sediments.

The paper identifies substrate-dependent genes for bacterial plant colonization in Paraburkholderia graminis and shows substrate influences on colonization fitness across multiple bacterial strains.

The paper introduces Dual Tn-seq to assess genome-wide genetic interactions in Streptococcus pneumoniae by analyzing double mutants, revealing new biochemical pathway components.

The paper updates GapMind to include novel enzymes for amino acid biosynthesis, reducing pathway gaps in prokaryotes from 1.4 to 0.7 per genome.

The paper introduces Coaux-Seq, a method using DNA barcoded fragment libraries and auxotroph complementation to characterize protein function in bacteria, identifying 53 previously unvalidated proteins.

This paper uses high-throughput genetics to identify nutrient utilization and accessory energy metabolism genes in the methanogen Methanococcus maripaludis.

The paper introduces a web-based tool for fast comparative genomics analysis of bacteria and archaea, enabling quick identification of protein homologs and gene neighborhoods across diverse taxa.

The paper describes interactive tools to improve functional annotation of bacterial genomes by combining multiple resources to infer protein functions and bacterial capabilities.

The paper evaluates the accuracy of E. coli genome-scale metabolic models using mutant fitness data and identifies improvements to enhance prediction accuracy.

The paper introduces two web tools to analyze functional residues in protein families by comparing homologs and visualizing residue variation on phylogenetic trees.

GapMind annotates amino acid biosynthesis in bacteria and archaea by using experimentally characterized proteins and genetic data from minimal media-growing microbes.

Curated BLAST identifies candidate genes for specific enzymatic activities by comparing predicted proteins in a genome to characterized proteins.

The paper introduces a method called 'magic pools' to efficiently assess transposon delivery vectors in bacteria by using barcoded libraries and sequencing to identify effective vectors for mutagenesis.

PaperBLAST mines scientific literature and curated resources to find homologs of proteins and provides relevant text snippets.