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Shinichi Sunagawa is affiliated with the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, contributing extensively to these fields through numerous publications.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Sunagawa's work encompasses significant subfields such as:

  • Ecology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Oceanography
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Environmental Chemistry

The scientist's research topics cover diverse areas, including:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Marine and fisheries research

Sunagawa has published research in various venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • Nature Microbiology

Some of the recent publications by Sunagawa include:

  • "Tara Oceans: towards global ocean ecosystems biology", 2020, Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • "Biosynthetic potential of the global ocean microbiome", 2022, Nature
  • "Critical Assessment of Metagenome Interpretation: the second round of challenges", 2022, Nature Methods
  • "Cryptic and abundant marine viruses at the evolutionary origins of Earth's RNA virome", 2022, Science
  • "Microbiome meta-analysis and cross-disease comparison enabled by the SIAMCAT machine learning toolbox", 2021, Genome Biology

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Hans-Joachim Ruscheweyh
  • Colomban de Vargas
  • Patrick Wincker
  • Chris Bowler
  • Stéphane Pesant

Best Publications

  • Richness of human gut microbiome correlates with metabolic markers

    Trine Nielsen;Junjie Qin;Edi Prifti

  • Structure and function of the global ocean microbiome

    Shinichi Sunagawa;Luis Pedro Coelho;Samuel Chaffron;Jens Roat Kultima

  • Structure and function of the global topsoil microbiome.

    Mohammad Bahram;Mohammad Bahram;Mohammad Bahram;Falk Hildebrand;Sofia K. Forslund;Sofia K. Forslund;Jennifer L. Anderson

  • An integrated catalog of reference genes in the human gut microbiome

    Junhua Li;Huijue Jia;Xianghang Cai;Huanzi Zhong

  • eggNOG 4.5: a hierarchical orthology framework with improved functional annotations for eukaryotic, prokaryotic and viral sequences

    Jaime Huerta-Cepas;Damian Szklarczyk;Damian Szklarczyk;Kristoffer Forslund;Helen Cook

  • Disentangling type 2 diabetes and metformin treatment signatures in the human gut microbiota

    Kristoffer Forslund;Falk Hildebrand;Falk Hildebrand;Trine Nielsen;Gwen Falony;Gwen Falony

  • Human gut microbes impact host serum metabolome and insulin sensitivity

    Helle Krogh Pedersen;Valborg Gudmundsdottir;Henrik B. Nielsen;Tuulia Hyötyläinen;Tuulia Hyötyläinen

  • Eukaryotic plankton diversity in the sunlit ocean

    Colomban de Vargas;Colomban de Vargas;Stéphane Audic;Stéphane Audic;Nicolas Henry;Nicolas Henry;Johan Decelle;Johan Decelle

  • Salt-responsive gut commensal modulates TH17 axis and disease

    Nicola Wilck;Mariana G. Matus;Sean M. Kearney;Scott W. Olesen

  • 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

  • Identification and assembly of genomes and genetic elements in complex metagenomic samples without using reference genomes

    H Bjørn Nielsen;Mathieu Almeida;Agnieszka Sierakowska Juncker;Simon Rasmussen

  • Enterotypes in the landscape of gut microbial community composition

    Paul I. Costea;Falk Hildebrand;Manimozhiyan Arumugam;Fredrik Bäckhed;Fredrik Bäckhed

  • Potential of fecal microbiota for early‐stage detection of colorectal cancer

    Georg Zeller;Julien Tap;Anita Y Voigt;Shinichi Sunagawa

  • Determinants of community structure in the global plankton interactome

    Gipsi Lima-Mendez;Karoline Faust;Nicolas Henry;Johan Decelle

  • Genomic variation landscape of the human gut microbiome

    Siegfried Schloissnig;Manimozhiyan Arumugam;Shinichi Sunagawa;Makedonka Mitreva

  • Plankton networks driving carbon export in the oligotrophic ocean.

    Lionel Guidi;Samuel Chaffron;Lucie Bittner;Damien Eveillard

  • Towards standards for human fecal sample processing in metagenomic studies

    Paul I. Costea;Georg Zeller;Shinichi Sunagawa;Eric Pelletier;Eric Pelletier

  • Marine DNA Viral Macro- and Microdiversity from Pole to Pole.

    Ann C. Gregory;Ahmed A. Zayed;Nádia Conceição-Neto;Ben Temperton

  • Patterns and ecological drivers of ocean viral communities

    Jennifer R. Brum;J. Cesar Ignacio-Espinoza;Simon Roux;Guilhem Doulcier;Guilhem Doulcier

  • Plankton networks driving carbon export in the oligotrophic ocean

    Lionel Guidi;Samuel Chaffron;Lucie Bittner;Damien Eveillard

Frequent Co-Authors

Peer Bork
Peer Bork European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Patrick Wincker
Patrick Wincker University of Paris-Saclay
Jeroen Raes
Jeroen Raes KU Leuven
Chris Bowler
Chris Bowler École Normale Supérieure
Stephane Pesant
Stephane Pesant University of Bremen
Eric Karsenti
Eric Karsenti École Normale Supérieure
Silvia G. Acinas
Silvia G. Acinas Spanish National Research Council
Matthew B. Sullivan
Matthew B. Sullivan The Ohio State University
Hiroyuki Ogata
Hiroyuki Ogata Kyoto University
Marc Picheral
Marc Picheral Université Paris Cité

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