Joachim Fritscher

Protal provides ultra-fast, strain-resolved metagenomic profiling with high precision, outperforming existing tools in both species and strain-level analysis.

The paper tracks microbial community changes in grassland and forest sites following land abandonment, showing increased functional diversity and decreased taxonomic diversity with ecosystem development.

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