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Svenja Weißenberger

Technical University of MunichORCID 0009-0009-4374-0360Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Microbiology· 2 Bioinformatics· 1

Signature Assays, Organisms & Methods

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Organism:human· 3 Assay:metagenomics· 3 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 2 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Research Focus:clustering· 1 Research Focus:database / resource· 1 Approach:deep learning· 1 Research Focus:differential expression· 1

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Melanie SchirmeriD· 3 shared Emilio García RíosiD· 2 shared Shen JiniD· 2 shared Agnieszka Gaska· 1 shared Anastasia Ermolova· 1 shared Aurélie CenieriD· 1 shared Chunyang ZhangiD· 1 shared Daniela WetzeliD· 1 shared

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2025-2026 · peak 2/yr

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BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprintAug 12, 2026

MetaGEAR Explorer: rapid interactive searches and cross-cohort microbiome analyses to identify disease associations of microbial genes

Emilio García Ríos, Shen Jin, Chunyang Zhang…·Melanie Schirmer

MetaGEAR Explorer enables cross-cohort microbiome analyses to identify disease-associated microbial genes by expanding gene searches beyond sequence similarity.

DOI 10.64898/2026.03.30.715271

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MicrobiologybioRxivPreprintJun 4, 2026

Probiotic formula intervention in infants leads to colonization and competitive strain displacement independent of IgA binding

Michael Vig Merino, Svenja Weißenberger, Anastasia Ermolova…·Dirk Haller

The paper investigates how probiotic interventions in infants affect bacterial strain dynamics and immune responses, finding that specific strains are displaced regardless of IgA binding.

DOI 10.64898/2026.06.03.729775

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MicrobiologybioRxivPreprintSep 29, 2025

Gene-centric metagenomic analyses reveal microbiome functional insights into diseases

Shen Jin, Aurélie Cenier, Lea Eisenhard…·Melanie Schirmer

The paper develops MetaGEAR, a gene-centric metagenomic analysis framework, to investigate microbiome functionality in diseases and identify disease signature genes and mobile genetic elements.

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