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Petabase-scale sequence alignment catalyses viral discovery

Serratus, an open-source cloud-computing infrastructure, can be used to screen millions of nucleic acid sequencing libraries at the petabase scale, and has enabled many new RNA viruses to be identified efficiently.

Robert C. Edgar
Brie Taylor
Artem Babaian
Research26 Jan 2022
Nature

Volume: 602, P: 142-147
Fast and sensitive protein alignment using DIAMOND

The open-source DIAMOND software provides protein alignment that is 20,000 times faster on short reads than BLASTX at similar sensitivity, for rapid analysis of large metagenomics data sets on a desktop computer.

Benjamin Buchfink
Chao Xie
Daniel H Huson
Research17 Nov 2014
Nature Methods

Volume: 12, P: 59-60
Epibionts dominate metabolic functional potential of Trichodesmium colonies from the oligotrophic ocean

Kyle R Frischkorn
Mónica Rouco
Sonya T Dyhrman
ResearchOpen Access23 May 2017
The ISME Journal

Volume: 11, P: 2090-2101
Sensitive protein alignments at tree-of-life scale using DIAMOND

An updated version of DIAMOND uses improved algorithmic procedures and a customized high-performance computing framework to make seemingly prohibitive large-scale protein sequence alignments feasible.

Benjamin Buchfink
Klaus Reuter
Hajk-Georg Drost
ResearchOpen Access07 Apr 2021
Nature Methods

Volume: 18, P: 366-368