Antarctica is arguably the world's most important continent for influencing the Earth's climate
and ocean ecosystem function. The unique physico-chemical properties of the Southern …

Methods for assembly, taxonomic profiling and binning are key to interpreting metagenome
data, but a lack of consensus about benchmarking complicates performance assessment. …

Many marine bacteria have evolved to grow optimally at either high (copiotrophic) or low (oligotrophic)
nutrient concentrations, enabling different species to colonize distinct trophic …

Viruses are abundant ubiquitous members of microbial communities and in the marine
environment affect population structure and nutrient cycling by infecting and lysing primary …

Most proteins adopt a well defined three-dimensional structure; however, it is increasingly
recognized that some proteins can exist with at least two stable conformations. Recently, a …

In nature, the complexity and structure of microbial communities varies widely, ranging from
a few species to thousands of species, and from highly structured to highly unstructured …

CLIC1 (NCC27) is a member of the highly conserved class of chloride ion channels that exists
in both soluble and integral membrane forms. Purified CLIC1 can integrate into synthetic …

The ubiquitous SAR11 bacterial clade is the most abundant type of organism in the world's
oceans, but the reasons for its success are not fully elucidated. We analysed 128 surface …

Psychrophilic archaea are abundant and perform critical roles throughout the Earth's expansive
cold biosphere. Here we report the first complete genome sequence for a psychrophilic …

Background Shotgun metagenome data sets of microbial communities are highly diverse,
not only due to the natural variation of the underlying biological systems, but also due to …