• Critical Assessment of Metagenome Interpretation: the second round of challenges 

      Meyer, Fernando; Fritz, Adrian; Deng, Zhi-Luo; Koslicki, David; Lesker, Till Robin; Gurevich, Alexey; Robertson, Gary; Alser, Mohammed; Antipov, Dmitry; Beghini, Francesco; Bertrand, Denis; Brito, Jaqueline J.; Brown, C. Titus; Buchmann, Jan; Buluç, Aydin; Chen, Bo; Chikhi, Rayan; Clausen, Philip T. L. C.; Cristian, Alexandru; Dabrowski, Piotr Wojciech; Darling, Aaron E.; Egan, Rob; Eskin, Eleazar; Georganas, Evangelos; Goltsman, Eugene; Gray, Melissa A.; Hansen, Lars Hestbjerg; Hofmeyr, Steven; Huang, Pingqin; Irber, Luiz; Jia, Huijue; Jørgensen, Tue Sparholt; Kieser, Silas D.; Klemetsen, Terje; Kola, Axel; Kolmogorov, Mikhail; Korobeynikov, Anton; Kwan, Jason; LaPierre, Nathan; Lemaitre, Claire; Li, Chenhao; Limasset, Antoine; Malcher-Miranda, Fabio; Mangul, Serghei; Marcelino, Vanessa R.; Marchet, Camille; Marijon, Pierre; Meleshko, Dmitry; Mende, Daniel R.; Milanese, Alessio; Nagarajan, Niranjan; Nissen, Jakob; Nurk, Sergey; Oliker, Leonid; Paoli, Lucas; Peterlongo, Pierre; Piro, Vitor C.; Porter, Jacob S.; Rasmussen, Simon; Rees, Evan R.; Reinert, Knut; Renard, Bernhard; Robertsen, Espen Mikal; Rosen, Gail L.; Ruscheweyh, Hans-Joachim; Sarwal, Varuni; Segata, Nicola; Seiler, Enrico; Shi, Lizhen; Sun, Fengzhu; Sunagawa, Shinichi; Sørensen, Søren Johannes; Thomas, Ashleigh; Tong, Chengxuan; Trajkovski, Mirko; Tremblay, Julien; Uritskiy, Gherman; Vicedomini, Riccardo; Wang, Zhengyang; Wang, Ziye; Wang, Zhong; Warren, Andrew; Willassen, Nils Peder; Yelick, Katherine; You, Ronghui; Zeller, Georg; Zhao, Zhengqiao; Zhu, Shanfeng; Zhu, Jie; Garrido-Oter, Ruben; Gastmeier, Petra; Hacquard, Stephane; Häußler, Susanne; Khaledi, Ariane; Maechler, Friederike; Mesny, Fantin; Radutoiu, Simona; Schulze-Lefert, Paul; Smit, Nathiana; Strowig, Till; Bremges, Andreas; Sczyrba, Alexander; McHardy, Alice Carolyn (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-04-08)
      Evaluating metagenomic software is key for optimizing metagenome interpretation and focus of the Initiative for the Critical Assessment of Metagenome Interpretation (CAMI). The CAMI II challenge engaged the community to assess methods on realistic and complex datasets with long- and short-read sequences, created computationally from around 1,700 new and known genomes, as well as 600 new plasmids ...
    • Inter-laboratory testing of the effect of DNA blocking reagent G2 on DNA extraction from low-biomass clay samples 

      Jacobsen, Carsten Suhr; Nielsen, Tue Kjærgaard; Vester, Jan Kjølhede; Stougaard, Peter; Nielsen, Jeppe Lund; Voriskova, Jana; Winding, Anne; Baldrian, Petr; Liu, Binbin; Frostegård, Åsa; Pedersen, Dorthe; Tveit, Alexander Tøsdal; Svenning, Mette Marianne; Tebbe, Christoph C.; Øvreås, Lise; Jakobsen, Pia Bach; Blazewicz, Steven J.; Hubablek, Valerie; Bertilsson, Stefan; Hansen, Lars Hestbjerg; Cary, S. Craig; Holben, William E.; Ekelund, Flemming; Bælum, Jacob (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-04-09)
      Here we show that a commercial blocking reagent (G2) based on modified eukaryotic DNA significantly improved DNA extraction efficiency. We subjected G2 to an inter-laboratory testing, where DNA was extracted from the same clay subsoil using the same batch of kits. The inter-laboratory extraction campaign revealed large variation among the participating laboratories, but the reagent increased the ...