Eric J. Alm

Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

Structure, function and diversity of the healthy human microbiome

Studies of the human microbiome have revealed that even healthy individuals differ remarkably in the microbes that occupy habitats such as the gut, skin and vagina. Much of this...

Ecology drives a global network of gene exchange connecting the human microbiome

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT), the acquisition of genetic material from non-parental lineages, is known to be important in bacterial evolution. In particular, HGT provides rapi...

Unlocking Short Read Sequencing for Metagenomics

This strategy is broadly applicable to sequencing applications that benefit from low-cost high-throughput sequencing, but require longer read lengths. We demonstrate that our ap...