Catherine R. Armbruster

BTEXgenie is a tool that uses profile HMMs to annotate BTEX degradation genes with higher sensitivity than existing methods, supporting pathway visualization and genomic analysis.

MagicLamp provides a toolkit and web server for targeted microbial function annotation using curated HMMs, enabling sensitive and specific gene annotation for specialized processes.

This study finds that respiratory viral infections increase Pseudomonas abundance in cystic fibrosis airways, with persistent microbial changes and associations with pro-inflammatory cytokines.

This study investigates how lytic bacteriophages interact with respiratory epithelial cells and their effects on cytokine secretion, highlighting the need to consider mammalian responses in phage therapy.

SprayNPray provides a user-friendly tool for taxonomic profiling of genome and metagenome contigs using multiple metrics to classify and analyze sequences.