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Richard James Dewhurst

Scotland's Rural CollegeORCID 0000-0002-9357-7372Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:database / resource· 1 Assay:DNA methylation· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Assay:metagenomics· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1

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Alan W. WalkeriD· 1 shared Amanda WarriD· 1 shared Christopher J. CreeveyiD· 1 shared Holly J. FergusoniD· 1 shared Joana LimaiD· 1 shared Marc D. AuffretiD· 1 shared Mick WatsoniD· 1 shared R. RoeheiD· 1 shared

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Development and Refinement of Microbial DNA Extraction Protocol from Bovine Milk

Rowan Cook, Joana Lima, Richard James Dewhurst, Sharon Huws, Christopher J. Creevey, Holly J. Ferguson

The paper evaluates fourteen DNA extraction protocols for microbial DNA from bovine milk and identifies an optimized version of the QIAGEN DNeasy PowerSoil kit as the most effective.

bioRxiv · May 1, 2026 · PreprintMolecular Biology

Assembly of hundreds of microbial genomes from the cow rumen reveals novel microbial species encoding enzymes with roles in carbohydrate metabolism

Robert Stewart, Marc D. Auffret, Amanda Warr, Timothy J. Snelling, Richard James Dewhurst, Alan W. Walker, R. Roehe, Mick Watson

The paper assembles 220 high-quality microbial genomes from cow rumen metagenomic data, revealing novel species with carbohydrate metabolism enzymes and improving metagenomic classification.

bioRxiv · Jul 13, 2017 · PreprintGenomics