Peter Erdmann Dougherty

TaxVAMB improves metagenome binning by combining tetranucleotide frequencies and co-abundances with taxonomic annotations, outperforming existing methods on benchmark and real datasets.

The paper identifies virulent phage genomes in bacterial assemblies, challenging the assumption that virulent phages cannot persist in bacterial cells.

The paper isolates and characterizes novel bacteriophages targeting wheat phyllosphere bacteria, identifies DNA modifications and single-strand breaks, and finds widespread distribution of similar phages in public metagenomes.