Benjamin R. Joris

The paper improves functional annotations of metagenomic bacteriophage by combining protein structure prediction and homology search in a naphthenic acid-degrading microbial community.

The paper identifies type IV conjugation systems in metagenomic data and shows they differ between age and geographic cohorts, suggesting their use as biomarkers and highlighting limitations of current binning methods.

The paper presents a strategy to complete and validate metagenome-assembled genomes using a combination of short and ultra-long reads, resulting in multiple complete genomes from a bacterial community.