Duncan Y. K. Ng

This study examines the impact of a bacteriophage cocktail on healthy gut microbiota using an in vitro human colon model, finding minimal disruption with specific effects on Escherichia coli.

The paper benchmarks human read removal methods in metagenomics, finding that high-sensitivity Bowtie2 with T2T-CHM13 reference improves removal while preserving microbial data.

LotuS2 is a fast and accurate tool for amplicon sequencing analysis that outperforms existing pipelines in speed and diversity metrics.