John D. Gillece

A global to local genomics analysis of Clostridioides difficile ST1/RT027 identifies cryptic transmission events in a northern Arizona healthcare network

This study uses whole genome sequencing to analyze C. difficile isolates and identifies multiple introductions and transmission events in a healthcare network, highlighting genetic variability and antimicrobial resistance.

A Bacillus anthracis Genome Sequence from the Sverdlovsk 1979 Autopsy Specimens

The paper generates a draft genome of the Sverdlovsk 1979 Bacillus anthracis strain and places it phylogenetically within a clade of vaccine strains, finding no evidence of genetic manipulation.

The In Silico Genotyper (ISG): an open-source pipeline to rapidly identify and annotate nucleotide variants for comparative genomics applications

The paper introduces ISG, an open-source pipeline for identifying and annotating nucleotide variants in bacterial genomes, showing it is faster and more flexible than existing tools.