Annick Wilmotte

This study reconstructs high-quality genomes of Antarctic and Arctic cyanobacteria, revealing an Out-of-Antarctica dispersal scenario within subcluster 5.2.

The paper develops a FAIR amplicon sequencing workflow for long-term environmental monitoring of microbial communities in Antarctica.

The paper introduces the GEN-ERA toolbox, a unified bioinformatics workflow for microbial genomics that enables reproducible phylogenetic and metabolic analyses on bacteria and small eukaryotes.

ORPER is a Nextflow workflow that determines the phylogenetic position of organisms by constraining SSU rRNA sequences in a reference tree, demonstrated on Cyanobacteria strains.

The paper reports genome sequencing of 15 arctic/subarctic Cyanobacteria and their associated microbiome using a metagenomic pipeline, showing high-quality assemblies from non-axenic cultures.

The paper assesses contamination levels in 440 cyanobacterial genomes using a consensus of six methods, finding over 5% are highly contaminated.