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Microbiome Analysis

: recommended readings

0. Virome

  • 2024 Cell - Using artificial intelligence to document the hidden RNA virosphere
  • 2023 Cell - Mining metatranscriptomes reveals a vast world of viroid-like circular RNAs

I. ncRNA/sRNA in microbiome

  • 2024 Cell Host and Microbe - The RNA landscape of the human commensal Segatella copri reveals a small RNA essential for gut colonization
  • 2024 Science - Hydrolytic endonucleolytic ribozyme (HYER) is programmable for sequence-specific DNA cleavage
  • 2023 Science - Uncovering the functional diversity of rare CRISPR-Cas systems with deep terascale clustering
  • 2021 Genome Biology - Comparative genomics identifies thousands of candidate structured RNAs in human microbiomes
  • 2019 Cell - Large-Scale Analyses of Human Microbiomes Reveal Thousands of Small, Novel Genes
  • 2017 Science - Protein structure determination using metagenome sequence data
  • 2019 Molecular Systems Biology - Unraveling the hidden universe of small proteins in bacterial genomes
  • 2009 Nature - Metatranscriptomics reveals unique microbial small RNAs in the ocean’s water column.

II. Cancer microbiome

  • 2024 Cell - A pan-cancer analysis of the microbiome in metastatic cancer
  • [Review] 2022 Science - Engineering bacteria as interactive cancer therapies
  • 2022 Nature - Effect of the intratumoral microbiota on spatial and cellular heterogeneity in cancer
  • 2022 Cell - Pan-cancer analyses reveal cancer-type-specific fungal ecologies and bacteriome interactions
  • 2022 Cell - A pan-cancer mycobiome analysis reveals fungal involvement in gastrointestinal and lung tumors
  • [Review] 2021 Cancer Cell - Microbiome and cancer
  • [Review] 2021 Science - The microbiome and human cancer
  • 2020 Science - The human tumor microbiome is composed of tumor type–specific intracellular bacteria
  • 2020 Cell - A Viral Exposure Signature Defines Early Onset of Hepatocellular Carcinoma

III. Microbiome in cfRNAs and cfDNAs

  • 2022 Nature Communications - A metagenomic DNA sequencing assay that is robust against environmental DNA contamination
  • 2020 Nature - Microbiome analyses of blood and tissues suggest cancer diagnostic approach
  • 2020 Microbiome - Separating the signal from the noise in metagenomic cell-free DNA sequencing
  • 2019 PNAS - A cell-free DNA metagenomic sequencing assay that integrates the host injury response to infection

IV. Host & Microbe

  • 2022 Nature Microbe - Identification of shared and disease-specific host gene–microbiome associations across human diseases using multi-omic integration
  • 2020 EMBO J. - Mouse circulating extracellular vesicles contain virus-derived siRNAs active in antiviral immunity
  • 2018 Cell Host & Microbe - Plant-Derived Exosomal MicroRNAs Shape the Gut Microbiota.
  • 2016 Cell Host & Microbe - The Host Shapes the Gut Microbiota via Fecal MicroRNA

2020 Science - Bacteria in Tumors