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Nicola Segata

Nicola Segata

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Biology and Biochemistry
Italy
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
106
Citations
119584
World Ranking
1123
National Ranking
12

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Nicola Segata is affiliated with the University of Trento in Italy and has contributed extensively to research in the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their scholarly work spans a range of subfields including Molecular Biology, Oncology, Physiology, Infectious Diseases, and Food Science.

The main topics Nicola Segata has focused on include Gut microbiota and health, Diet and metabolism studies, Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research, Probiotics and Fermented Foods, Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, and Nutritional Studies and Diet.

Nicola Segata has published notably in several scientific venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Medicine
  • Nature Communications
  • Gastroenterology

Recent published papers that highlight their research include:

  • Integrating taxonomic, functional, and strain-level profiling of diverse microbial communities with bioBakery 3, 2021, eLife
  • A unified catalog of 204,938 reference genomes from the human gut microbiome, 2020, Nature Biotechnology
  • Extending and improving metagenomic taxonomic profiling with uncharacterized species using MetaPhlAn 4, 2023, Nature Biotechnology
  • Microbiome connections with host metabolism and habitual diet from 1,098 deeply phenotyped individuals, 2021, Nature Medicine
  • Precise phylogenetic analysis of microbial isolates and genomes from metagenomes using PhyloPhlAn 3.0, 2020, Nature Communications

Frequent collaborators in research include:

  • Francesco Asnicar
  • Federica Armanini
  • Tim D. Spector
  • Paolo Manghi
  • Sarah Berry

Best Publications

  • Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

    Evan Bolyen;Jai Ram Rideout;Matthew R. Dillon;Nicholas A. Bokulich

  • Metagenomic biomarker discovery and explanation

    Nicola Segata;Jacques Izard;Levi Waldron;Dirk Gevers

  • Structure, function and diversity of the healthy human microbiome

    Curtis Huttenhower;Curtis Huttenhower;Dirk Gevers;Rob Knight;Rob Knight;Sahar Abubucker

  • Author Correction: Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2.

    Evan Bolyen;Jai Ram Rideout;Matthew R. Dillon;Nicholas A. Bokulich

  • A framework for human microbiome research

    Barbara A. Methé;Karen E. Nelson;Mihai Pop;Heather H. Creasy

  • Expansion of intestinal Prevotella copri correlates with enhanced susceptibility to arthritis

    Jose U Scher;Andrew Sczesnak;Andrew Sczesnak;Randy S Longman;Randy S Longman;Nicola Segata;Nicola Segata

  • Integrating taxonomic, functional, and strain-level profiling of diverse microbial communities with biobakery 3

    Francesco Beghini;Lauren J McIver;Aitor Blanco-Míguez;Leonard Dubois

  • MetaPhlAn2 for enhanced metagenomic taxonomic profiling.

    Duy Tin Truong;Eric A Franzosa;Timothy L Tickle;Timothy L Tickle;Matthias Scholz

  • Metagenomic microbial community profiling using unique clade-specific marker genes.

    Nicola Segata;Levi D. Waldron;Annalisa Ballarini;Vagheesh Narasimhan

  • Microbial Co-occurrence Relationships in the Human Microbiome

    Karoline Faust;J. Fah Sathirapongsasuti;Jacques Izard;Jacques Izard;Nicola Segata

  • Extensive Unexplored Human Microbiome Diversity Revealed by Over 150,000 Genomes from Metagenomes Spanning Age, Geography, and Lifestyle.

    Edoardo Pasolli;Francesco Asnicar;Serena Manara;Moreno Zolfo

  • Shotgun metagenomics, from sampling to analysis

    Christopher Quince;Alan W Walker;Jared T Simpson;Jared T Simpson;Nicholas J Loman

  • Species-level functional profiling of metagenomes and metatranscriptomes.

    Eric A. Franzosa;Eric A. Franzosa;Lauren J. McIver;Lauren J. McIver;Gholamali Rahnavard;Gholamali Rahnavard;Luke R. Thompson

  • A unified catalog of 204,938 reference genomes from the human gut microbiome.

    Alexandre Almeida;Alexandre Almeida;Stephen Nayfach;Stephen Nayfach;Miguel Boland;Francesco Strozzi

  • Meta-analysis of fecal metagenomes reveals global microbial signatures that are specific for colorectal cancer

    Jakob Wirbel;Paul Theodor Pyl;Paul Theodor Pyl;Ece Kartal;Konrad Zych

  • Mother-to-Infant Microbial Transmission from Different Body Sites Shapes the Developing Infant Gut Microbiome.

    Pamela Ferretti;Edoardo Pasolli;Adrian Tett;Francesco Asnicar

  • Metabolic Reconstruction for Metagenomic Data and Its Application to the Human Microbiome

    Sahar Abubucker;Nicola Segata;Johannes Goll;Alyxandria M. Schubert

  • Composition of the adult digestive tract bacterial microbiome based on seven mouth surfaces, tonsils, throat and stool samples

    Nicholas Segata;Susan Kinder Haake;Peter Mannon;Katherine Paige Lemon;Katherine Paige Lemon

  • QIIME 2: Reproducible, interactive, scalable, and extensible microbiome data science

    Evan Bolyen;Jai Ram Rideout;Matthew R Dillon;Nicholas A Bokulich

  • Integrating taxonomic, functional, and strain-level profiling of diverse microbial communities with bioBakery 3

    Francesco Beghini;Lauren J. McIver;Aitor Blanco-Míguez;Leonard Dubois

Frequent Co-Authors

Curtis Huttenhower
Curtis Huttenhower Harvard University
Francesco Asnicar
Francesco Asnicar University of Trento
Jennifer Beam Dowd
Jennifer Beam Dowd University of Oxford
Rob Knight
Rob Knight University of California, San Diego
Eric A. Franzosa
Eric A. Franzosa Harvard University
Ana M. Valdes
Ana M. Valdes University of Nottingham
Dirk Gevers
Dirk Gevers Johnson & Johnson (United States)
Paul W. Franks
Paul W. Franks Lund University
Tim D. Spector
Tim D. Spector King's College London
Andrew T. Chan
Andrew T. Chan Harvard University

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