Metagenomics can generate powerful insights into microbial communities, from taxonomic composition to metabolic potential and genome recovery. But it is also one of the easiest omics approaches to get …

If you have assembled a bacterial or archaeal genome, the next question is usually straightforward: which annotation pipeline should you use? Three of the most widely used options are …

A low RNA-seq mapping rate is one of the most common warning signs in transcriptomics analysis. If too many reads fail to align to the reference genome or transcriptome, …