Ricardo R. Pavan

CRESSENT is a bioinformatic toolkit for ssDNA virus annotation that addresses challenges in identification, classification, and decontamination of metagenomic datasets.

The paper samples and analyzes viruses in the Bermuda Atlantic Time Series to reveal population-level dynamics and functional differences, but not community-level changes over short timeframes.

This study examines the cervicovaginal microbiome of HIV-positive pregnant people in the DRC, finding taxonomic and functional differences compared to HIV-negative individuals and linking microbiome features to adverse pregnancy outcomes.