Jan P. Buchmann

The paper constructs a chromosome-scale super-pangenome for the lichen genus Peltigera, revealing shared genomic features between pathogenic and mutualistic fungi.

The paper evaluates metagenomic software tools using realistic datasets, highlighting improvements in assembly and taxon profiling while identifying remaining challenges in virus/archaea detection and reproducibility.

CCMetagen improves metagenomic classification by using weighted read mappings, outperforming existing tools in precision and F1 scores for species-level identification.