Robyn Wright

This study shows that metabolic redundancy in the β-oxidation pathway enables efficient microbial assimilation of oxidized polyethylene leachates.

The paper updates the PICRUSt2 reference database with more bacterial and archaeal genomes and functional annotations, improving functional predictions from amplicon sequencing data.

This study evaluates how tool, parameter, and database choices affect metagenomic taxonomic classification performance across different datasets and applications.

In 38 two-group 16S rRNA datasets, 14 differential abundance tools disagreed sharply; ALDEx2 and ANCOM-II were conservative and consistent, while edgeR and LEfSe inflated false positives.