ZIKV – CDB: A collaborative database to guide research linking sncRNAs and ZIKA Virus disease sympto
The potential interaction between ZIKA Virus (ZIKV) infection and infant brain defects still has no explanatory mechanism. The mechanism...
BMPOS: A flexible and user-friendly tool sets for microbiome studies (Journal of Microbiological Met
Recent advances in science and technology are leading to a revision and re-orientation of methodologies, addressing old and current...
Misguided phylogenetic comparisons using DGGE excised bands may contaminate public sequence database
Controversy surrounding bacterial phylogenies has become one of the most important challenges for microbial ecology. Comparative analyses...
Microbiome studies need local leaders (Nature)
As researchers on the Brazilian Microbiome Project, we contend that creating a robust International Microbiome Initiative (IMI) needs...
Data analysis for 16S microbial profiling from different benchtop sequencing platforms (JMM)
Progress in microbial ecology is confounded by problems when evaluating results from different sequencing methodologies. Contrary to...

Brazilian Microbiome Project: Revealing the Unexplored Microbial Diversity—Challenges and Prospects
The Brazilian Microbiome Project (BMP) aims to assemble a Brazilian Metagenomic Consortium/Database. At present, many metagenomic...