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A geological timescale for bacterial evolution and oxygen adaptation
Davín, Adrián A., Woodcroft, Ben J., Soo, Rochelle M., Morel, Benoit, Murali, Ranjani, Schrempf, Dominik, Clark, James W., Álvarez-Carretero, Sandra, Boussau, Bastien, Moody, Edmund R.R., et al. (2025) A geological timescale for bacterial evolution and oxygen adaptation. Science, 388 (6742), pp.Article number: eadp1853.
16 citations on Web of Science
13 citations on Scopus
Comprehensive taxonomic identification of microbial species in metagenomic data using SingleM and Sandpiper
Woodcroft, Ben J., Aroney, Samuel T. N., Zhao, Rossen, Cunningham, Mitchell, Mitchell, Joshua A. M., Nurdiansyah, Rizky, Blackall, Linda, Tyson, Gene W. (2025) Comprehensive taxonomic identification of microbial species in metagenomic data using SingleM and Sandpiper. Nature Biotechnology.
18 citations on Web of Science
19 citations on Scopus
Simulating big mechanically-active culture systems (BigMACS) using paired biomechanics-histology FEA modelling to derive mechanobiology design relationships
Schoenborn, Sabrina, Yuan, Mingyang, Fell, Cody A., Liu, Chuanhai, Fletcher, David F., Priola, Selene, Chan, Hon Fai, Woodruff, Mia, Li, Zhiyong, Toh, Yi Chin, et al. (2025) Simulating big mechanically-active culture systems (BigMACS) using paired biomechanics-histology FEA modelling to derive mechanobiology design relationships. Biofabrication, 17 (3), pp.Article number: 035006.
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International Symposium on Ruminant Physiology: Current perspective on rumen microbial ecology to improve fiber digestibility

Firkins, J. L., Henderson, E. L., Duan, H., Pope, P. B. (2025) International Symposium on Ruminant Physiology: Current perspective on rumen microbial ecology to improve fiber digestibility. Journal of Dairy Science, 108 (7), pp.7511-7529.
6 citations on Web of Science
7 citations on Scopus
Multi-omics surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in the pig gut microbiome

Guitart-Matas, Judith, Vera-Ponce de León, Arturo, Pope, Phillip B, Hvidsten, Torgeir R, Fraile, Lorenzo, Ballester, Maria, Ramayo-Caldas, Yuliaxis, Migura-Garcia, Lourdes (2025) Multi-omics surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in the pig gut microbiome. Animal Microbiome, 7 (1), pp.Article number: 65.
1 citations on Web of Science
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AI-Driven Antimicrobial Peptide Discovery: Mining and Generation

Szymczak, Paulina, Zarzecki, Wojciech, Wang, Jiejing, Duan, Yiqian, Wang, Jun, Coelho, Luis Pedro, de la Fuente-Nunez, Cesar, Szczurek, Ewa (2025) AI-Driven Antimicrobial Peptide Discovery: Mining and Generation. Accounts of Chemical Research, 58 (12), pp.1831-1846.
17 citations on Web of Science
18 citations on Scopus
argNorm: normalization of antibiotic resistance gene annotations to the Antibiotic Resistance Ontology (ARO)

Ugarcina Perovic, Svetlana, Ramji, Vedanth, Chong, Hui, Duan, Yiqian, Maguire, Finlay, Coelho, Luis Pedro (2025) argNorm: normalization of antibiotic resistance gene annotations to the Antibiotic Resistance Ontology (ARO). Bioinformatics, 41 (5), pp.Article number: btaf173.
3 citations on Web of Science
1 citations on Scopus
Verapamil and its metabolite norverapamil inhibit the Mycobacterium tuberculosis MmpS5L5 efflux pump to increase bedaquiline activity
Fountain, Adam J., Waller, Natalie J.E., Cheung, Chen Yi, Jowsey, William, Chrisp, Michael T., Troll, Mark, Edelstein, Paul H., Cook, Gregory M., McNeil, Matthew B., Ramakrishnan, Lalita (2025) Verapamil and its metabolite norverapamil inhibit the Mycobacterium tuberculosis MmpS5L5 efflux pump to increase bedaquiline activity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122 (16), pp.Article number: e2426827122.
6 citations on Web of Science
5 citations on Scopus
Structure of Mycobacterial NDH-2 Bound to a 2-Mercapto-Quinazolinone Inhibitor

Liang, Yingke, Bueler, Stephanie A., Cook, Gregory M., Rubinstein, John L. (2025) Structure of Mycobacterial NDH-2 Bound to a 2-Mercapto-Quinazolinone Inhibitor. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 68 (7), pp.7579-7591.
3 citations on Web of Science
3 citations on Scopus
CompareM2 is a genomes-to-report pipeline for comparing microbial genomes

Kobel, Carl M., Aho, Velma T.E., Øyås, Ove, Nørskov-Lauritsen, Niels, Woodcroft, Ben J, Pope, Phillip B. (2025) CompareM2 is a genomes-to-report pipeline for comparing microbial genomes. Bioinformatics, 41 (9), pp.Article number: btaf517.
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