In Situ Field Sequencing and Life Detection in Remote (79°26′N) Canadian High Arctic Permafrost Ice Wedge Microbial Communities

Canu: scalable and accurate long-read assembly via adaptivek-mer weighting and repeat separation

(2017) Sergey Koren et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Detecting DNA cytosine methylation using nanopore sequencing

(2017) Jared T Simpson et al.   NATURE METHODS

Microbial Metabolism in Soil at Subzero Temperatures: Adaptation Mechanisms Revealed by Position-Specific 13C Labeling

(2017) Ezekiel K. Bore et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

MinION™ nanopore sequencing of environmental metagenomes: a synthetic approach

(2017) Bonnie L. Brown et al.   GigaScience

DeepNano: Deep recurrent neural networks for base calling in MinION nanopore reads

(2017) Vladimír Boža et al.   PLoS One

Monitoring soil bacteria with community-level physiological profiles using Biolog™ ECO-plates in the Netherlands and Europe

(2016) Michiel Rutgers et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Comparative activity and functional ecology of permafrost soils and lithic niches in a hyper-arid polar desert

(2016) Jacqueline Goordial et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

PacBio SMRT assembly of a complex multi-replicon genome reveals chlorocatechol degradative operon in a region of genome plasticity

(2016) N. Ricker et al.   GENE

Nearing the cold-arid limits of microbial life in permafrost of an upper dry valley, Antarctica

(2016) Jacqueline Goordial et al.   ISME Journal

Resolving the Complexity of Human Skin Metagenomes Using Single-Molecule Sequencing

(2016) Yu-Chih Tsai et al.   mBio

Moleculo Long-Read Sequencing Facilitates Assembly and Genomic Binning from Complex Soil Metagenomes

(2016) Richard Allen White et al.   mSystems

Characterization, correction and de novo assembly of an Oxford Nanopore genomic dataset from Agrobacterium tumefaciens

(2016) Stéphane Deschamps et al.   Scientific Reports

Nearly Forty Years after Viking: Are We Ready for a New Life-Detection Mission?

(2015) Dirk Schulze-Makuch et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

One chromosome, one contig: complete microbial genomes from long-read sequencing and assembly

(2015) Sergey Koren et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

An active atmospheric methane sink in high Arctic mineral cryosols

(2015) M C Y Lau et al.   ISME Journal

A new antibiotic kills pathogens without detectable resistance

(2015) Losee L. Ling et al.   NATURE

Spectral evidence for hydrated salts in recurring slope lineae on Mars

(2015) Lujendra Ojha et al.   Nature Geoscience

Poretools: a toolkit for analyzing nanopore sequence data

(2014) N. J. Loman et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Orbital apocenter is not a sufficient condition for HST/STIS detection of Europa’s water vapor aurora

(2014) Lorenz Roth et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The SEED and the Rapid Annotation of microbial genomes using Subsystems Technology (RAST)

(2013) Ross Overbeek et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

A Habitable Fluvio-Lacustrine Environment at Yellowknife Bay, Gale Crater, Mars

(2013) J. P. Grotzinger et al.   SCIENCE

Life at the Wedge: the Activity and Diversity of Arctic Ice Wedge Microbial Communities

(2012) Roland C. Wilhelm et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Sensitive life detection strategies for low-biomass environments: optimizing extraction of nucleic acids adsorbing to terrestrial and Mars analogue minerals

(2012) Susana O.L. Direito et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Mind the Gap: Upgrading Genomes with Pacific Biosciences RS Long-Read Sequencing Technology

(2012) Adam C. English et al.   PLoS One

SOLID3: A Multiplex Antibody Microarray-Based Optical Sensor Instrument for In Situ Life Detection in Planetary Exploration

(2011) Víctor Parro et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Microbial diversity of active layer and permafrost in an acidic wetland from the Canadian High Arctic

(2011) Roland C. Wilhelm et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY

Use of Ichip for High-Throughput In Situ Cultivation of "Uncultivable" Microbial Species

(2010) D. Nichols et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

New Priorities in the Robotic Exploration of Mars: The Case for In Situ Search for Extant Life

(2010) Alfonso F. Davila et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Astrobiology through the Ages of Mars: The Study of Terrestrial Analogues to Understand the Habitability of Mars

(2010) Alberto G. Fairén et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Limitations of next-generation genome sequence assembly

(2010) Can Alkan et al.   NATURE METHODS

One-dimensional metric for tracking bacterial community divergence using sole carbon source utilization patterns

(2009) Kela P. Weber et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGICAL METHODS

Overview of analogue science activities at the McGill Arctic Research Station, Axel Heiberg Island, Canadian High Arctic

(2009) Wayne Pollard et al.   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE

The Possible Origin and Persistence of Life on Enceladus and Detection of Biomarkers in the Plume

(2008) Christopher P. McKay et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

The metagenomics RAST server – a public resource for the automatic phylogenetic and functional analysis of metagenomes

(2008) F Meyer et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS