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John R. Spear

Colorado School of MinesORCID 0000-0002-4664-7438Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:benchmarking· 2 Assay:metagenomics· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Organism:bacteria (other)· 1 Research Focus:database / resource· 1 Research Focus:ecology & biodiversity· 1 Organism:human· 1 Research Focus:software / tool· 1

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Alexis S. TempletoniD· 1 shared Ben Hillmann· 1 shared Dan KnightsiD· 1 shared Daniel R. ColmaniD· 1 shared Dimitrios N. SidiropoulosiD· 1 shared Eric S. BoydiD· 1 shared Greg Caporaso· 1 shared Jake Larson· 1 shared

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MicrobiologyThe ISME JournalPeer-reviewedJan 1, 2025

The Microbial Ecology of Serpentinites

Daniel R. Colman, Alexis S. Templeton, John R. Spear, Eric S. Boyd

This paper reviews the microbial ecology of serpentinite-hosted biospheres and compares metagenomic data to identify global patterns and remaining questions.

21 citations

metagenomicsstatistical model

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BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprintMay 2, 2017

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BugBase Predicts Organism Level Microbiome Phenotypes

Tonya Ward, Jake Larson, Jeremy Meulemans…·Dan Knights

BugBase assigns pathway coverage and traits (Gram stain, oxygen tolerance, pathogenicity) to individual taxa in 16S or shotgun microbiome data, detecting some functional differences bag-of-genes profiles miss.

491 citations

bacteria (other)human

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