Marc Strous

The paper isolates and characterizes two haloalkaliphilic Verrucomicrobiota strains from soda habitats, describing their physiology, genomics, and proteomics, and proposes a new genus and species.

The paper identifies Methylotenera ecotypes in methane-rich groundwater that use methylphosphonate for aerobic methane production, suggesting phosphate limitation in these environments.

The paper analyzes hydrogenase diversity, abundance, and expression in groundwater samples, finding high diversity and activity, with new groups linked to different metabolic functions.

CANT-HYD provides a database of HMMs for annotating hydrocarbon degradation marker genes, showing widespread metabolic potential and scalability in metagenomic analysis.

The paper benchmarks computational metagenomics software using complex datasets, showing strengths and limitations in assembly, binning, and taxonomic profiling.

MetaAmp is a pipeline for analyzing amplicon sequencing data, offering quality control, clustering, and diversity metrics using UPARSE, Mothur, and SILVA, with web and command line interfaces.