Will A. Overholt

This study characterizes 20 archived B. paranthracis clinical strains, highlighting phenotypic similarities and differences with B. anthracis and assessing MinION sequencing for antimicrobial resistance detection.

el_gato is a new bioinformatic tool that improves sequence-based typing of Legionella pneumophila from whole genome sequencing data, achieving high accuracy comparable to traditional Sanger sequencing.

The paper identifies four new respiratory endosymbiont genomes, revealing their global distribution and ability to perform both aerobic and anaerobic respiration.

The paper characterizes the seafloor microbiome in the Gulf of Mexico, showing it is consistent with depth and sediment stratification, and that DWH-impacted sites had recovered after two years.