Genome Watch

This month’s Genome Watch highlights how genomic surveillance can provide important information for identifying and tracking emerging pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2.

This month’s Genome Watch highlights a set of single-cell approaches that yield powerful insights into microbial biology.

This month’s Genome Watch examines how novel machine learning-enabled molecular diagnostic approaches can predict antibiotic resistance when ge-netic variation falls short.

This month’s Genome Watch highlights efforts to engineer microorganisms and their plant hosts to address the challenges of sustainable agriculture.

This month’s Genome Watch article discusses the role of within-host adaptive evolution in bacterial pathogens for colonization and invasion of their human hosts.

This month’s Genome Watch highlights a large-scale sequencing project that enriches our understanding of yeast evolution and diversity.

This month’s Genome Watch highlights the unique evolutionary history, metabolic functions, and newly identified viruses and associated mobile genetic elements for the highly abundant and ubiquitous ammonia-oxidizing archaea.

This month’s Genome Watch highlights the use of genome-centric approaches to further our understanding of the human gut microbiome.

This Genome Watch article discusses the application of machine learning algorithms to predict the source of food-borne infections.

This month’s Genome Watch explores the genetic variability of the anti-malaria vaccine protein and discusses its significance for an efficacious intervention.

This month’s Genome Watch highlights how next-generation sequencing technologies provide crucial information during disease outbreaks and thus inform the public health response.

This month’s Genome Watch highlights the use of metagenomics to survey urban waste waters as a proxy for studying the gut microbiota in the local population and discusses how predictive models based on this data could inform public health.

This month’s Genome Watch highlights discoveries of high variability in the genes underlying cytoplasmic incompatibility among Wolbachia strains that help identify the best strains to use for the control of vector-borne diseases such as Zika virus and malaria.

This month’s Genome Watch discusses how a better understanding of the genetic mechanisms of antimalarial drug resistance can maximize the utility of genomic surveillance programs in informing the most effective drug policy.

This month's Genome Watch highlights how a better understanding of genotype–phenotype correlation may lead to the design of new diagnostic tests for antimicrobial resistance in clinical settings.

This month's Genome Watch discusses the detailed analysis of the human 'archaeome' from various body sites and highlights how current sequencing methods underestimate archaeal diversity and abundance.

This month's Genome Watch highlights how genomics has improved our understanding of how vaccines impact pathogen populations and their genomes.

This month's Genome Watch examines how coupling deep sequencing of the gut microbiome with metabolic profiles can advance the development of microbiota-focused personalized precision nutrition.

This month's Genome Watch discusses the release of 1,003 bacterial and archaeal genomes, and describes how they could increase our understanding of the diversity of microbial biological functions and contribute to improved metagenomic analyses.

This month's Genome Watch discusses how genome-wide epistasis analysis and genome-to-genome analyses are providing insights into the relevance of interactions between and within genomes of pathogens and their hosts.