Jack Thomas Sumner

The paper benchmarks microbiome methods to improve metagenomic sequencing of lower respiratory tract samples by optimizing DNA purification strategies.

BAQLaVa improves viral profiling from metagenomes and metatranscriptomes, revealing reduced virome diversity in inflammatory bowel diseases and novel phage-host relationships.

This study assembles and annotates the genome of Botrylloides violaceus using hybrid sequencing and performs comparative genomic analysis to identify conserved and divergent gene families.