Alessandro N Garritano

HiFiTaxa is a Nextflow pipeline for analyzing PacBio HiFi reads of 16S rRNA and ITS amplicons, offering multiple classifiers and benchmarking their performance on mock communities and holdouts.

This study uses dual transcriptomics to analyze interactions between microalgae and phycosphere bacteria, finding bacteria adapt to hosts while microalgae remain unaffected.

The paper identifies shared endosymbiotic microbes between deep-sea corals and crinoids that participate in nitrogen cycling, suggesting mutualistic interactions in nutrient-poor environments.