Today’s digest includes a Nature Medicine news feature on the role of preprints in the COVID-19 pandemic. Also included are an article about unsupervised clustering methods for microbiome data, the response of anammox consortia to nutrient starvation, and a handful of interesting preprints.
Animal experiments
Preprint: Phylogenetic diversity analysis of shotgun metagenomic reads describes gut microbiome development and treatment effects in the post-weaned pig – Gaio et al. – bioRxiv
Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Preprint: Ecological insights into soil health according to the life-history traits and environment-wide associations of bacteria in agricultural soils – Wilhelm et al. – bioRxiv
Water and extremophile microbiome
Response and resilience of anammox consortia to nutrient starvation – Wang et al. – Microbiome
Bioinformatics
Preprint: Model-free prediction of microbiome compositions – Asher & Bashan – bioRxiv
Preprint: Predicting the re-distribution of antibiotic molecules caused by inter-species interactions in microbial communities – Reding – bioRxiv
Performance determinants of unsupervised clustering methods for microbiome data – Shi et al. – Microbiome
Science, publishing, and career
Rise of the preprint: how rapid data sharing during COVID-19 has changed science forever – Watson – Nature Medicine